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65 Cards in this Set
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Has had the most significant lasting effects on the modern debasement of man (SA) |
C. Darwin's Origin of species |
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THe modern debasement of man has resulted in |
-Man has no responsibility to a power higher than himself -Denial of life after daeth |
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According to Freudianism, man is not responsible for his behavior. (T/F) |
True |
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Effects of Freudianism on modern literature |
-Explicit sexual material -Stream of conscioness -Focus on characters thoughts, dreams, and supressed desires |
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Major religious forces that have seriously undermined traditional protestant belief in modern era |
-Liberalism -Cultism -Roman Catholicism |
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Was begun as a reaction to the spiritual deadness of liberalism |
Neo-Orthodoxy |
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Popular Modern fiction generally has discouraged traditional Protestant belief (T/F) |
True |
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Contrasting and erroneous views of man that have affected American thought since world war 1 (SA) |
-Man is merely an animal -Man is his own God |
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The substitute religion that deifies man, rejects God, and advocates a one worl system (SA) |
Humanism |
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Americans writers in the 1920s became expatriates because _______________? (SA) |
They believed american spirit was destructive to imagination |
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Literature of the 1930's generally emphasizes what? |
Social Issues |
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Much of Robinsons poetry: |
-Emphasizes characters who are failures -Doesnt express traditional view of religion |
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"Miniver Cheevy" |
Dreamer |
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"Richard Cory" Theme (SA) |
Material possessions and status dont ensue happiness |
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"Cliff Klingenhagen" Irony of situation (SA) |
Cliffs situation, which seems unhappy, contrasts with his actual happiness |
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CASSANDRA -The audience thinks only of the? |
Present |
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CASSANDRA -Mythological reference? (SA) |
Gift of prophecy, she offended Apollo, cursed so that no one would believe her. |
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CASSANDRA -Audience will had to pay ___________ for what they have. (SA) |
"all they have" |
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Frost is identified as a poet of contradictions because his poems: |
-Have simple surface meaning with complex underlying meaning -Traditional in from but modern in content -Regional style but universal in content
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Frost poetry is often unlike that of modern poets in its deliberate design to present some type of? |
Lesson |
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"The Road not Taken" -Speaker doubts he will ever come what? |
Come back to this location
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"The Road not Taken" -___________ suggests that the decision about the roads will have lasting consequences. (SA) |
"Ages and ages hence" |
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"Birches" -Speaker dreams of "going back" to being "a swinger of birches" when he's _______________. (SA) |
"weary of considerations"and life is difficult |
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Essay: Referring to The Gift Outright and The Road Not Taken and Mendingwall, discuss the theme of individuality verses conformity |
In the Road not taken he chose the road showing independence |
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New Criticism -It rejects emphasis on the mind and personalty of? |
The poets, on sources, and on the background of ideas |
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New Critisism -It stresses |
Close reading and detailed analysis |
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New Criticism - ______ was its leading spokesman |
Ransom
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Roethke poetry was strongly influenced by? |
Emerason and whitman
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Roethke wrote poems that are traditional in? |
Form and rational them
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Roethke wrote poems that are? |
Unorthodox in form |
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"Dolor" -It refers to the "endless duplication" of? (SA) |
lives and objects
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Millay's lifestyle and poems have made her a symbol of the?
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Liberator woman
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Millays work is not traditional in?
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Theme and tone |
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Millay was a traditionalist in many of? |
Stylistic aspects of poetry
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"Sonnet XXVI" -It is similar in theme to a sonnet by? (SA) |
Shakespeare |
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Auden adapts what for his poetry? |
Traditional techniques |
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Auden often satirizes _______ in his poetry |
Social problems |
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Auden was born in England and later? |
Became a US Citizen |
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Auden used conventional forms to analyze modern problems. (T/F) |
True |
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"The Unknown Citizen" -Satirizes? (SA) |
Modern welfare state |
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The Imagist Movemnt |
-Imagist poems have little or no meaning -Imagist poetry aims at using the exact word and few words -Imagist Strongly influenced by Oriental poetry
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"In a station of the Metro" -It is an _____? |
Implied metaphor
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"In a station of the Metro" -Quote to know |
"Faces in the crowd" |
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William Carlos Williams |
-Believed poetic meaning only found in actual objects -was a doctor as well as a poet -Strongly influenced by whitman |
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"Poem" and "The Red Wheelbarrow" |
Focus on action vs focus on object
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"the red wheelbarrow" |
"white chickens" |
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Archibald Macleeish |
-He held important positions in government and education -Lived in France and associated w/other literary figures -Contributions not measured by his connection w/imagism |
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"Arcs Poetica" -What is the Thesis? (SA) |
"A poem should not mean/god be." |
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Carl Sanburg |
-He gained background for his poetry -Most accurately captures the essence of American class -Wrote an important biography of Abraham Lincoln |
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"Chicago" |
"A tall bold slugger"
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"Fog" |
Exemplifies animism |
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"Grass" Ironic theme (SA) |
Grass removes scars of war so people can forget terrible loss of life that results from war |
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E.E. Cummings |
-Was a painter as well as a novelist and playwright -Outstanding trait is individualism -In France was associated w/noteworthy figures from world of art and poetry |
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E.E. Cummings poetry did? |
-Helped readers see their world in a new way -Emphasis on freedom -Experimental |
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"in Just"
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"Balloon Man" |
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"sunday morning" |
-Womens meditations begin w/death of Christ |
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"sunday morning" |
Criticizes religion b/c its intangible and distant |
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Sunday Morning theme |
Man owes God no response because God doesnt exist
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"sunday morning" (SA) |
Man has natural order |
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James Weldon Johnson |
-Critix as well as novelist -Professor of literature -Helped stimulate Harlem Renaissance of 1920's
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Define Antropomorphism (SA) |
Depiction of nonhuman things as having human characteristics |
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T.S Elliot |
-England and Americas most influental literary figure -Works shifted in focus from problems of modern life to answers in religion |
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"Journey of the Magi" -"Summer Palaces" symbolizing |
-Wealth, ease, and contentment -Life devoted to fullfilling human desires |
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"Journey of the magi" -Lack of shelters (SA) |
"travel all night" |
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"Journey of the magi"
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"Sore Footed Camels" |
