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ROMANTIC PERIOD

Poets: Keats, Frost, Shelley, Whitman


1790-1840 (reaction to industrialism/age of enlightenment and rationalization of nature)


Intuition/emotion>reason; uses nature and art to invoke emotion


Mainly targeted towards men, educated leisure class,

DEVICES/THEMES IN ROMANTICSIM

Imagery and natural objects


Symbols are portrayed through imagery, metaphor, often ambiguous


Themes of quest, dreams, apocalypse, rural life



SONNETS

Poets: Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare


Iambic pentameter; a-b-a-b rhyme scheme


Typically deals with themes of love


incorporate volta: unexpected thematic turn, used to present theme in new way

PROSODY





In poetry: theory and principles of versification (stanza, rhythm, accent) physical arrangement of words i.e. line breaks, punctuation

IMAGISM

-direct treatment of subject, either subjective or objective


-no excess words


-no strict rhyme (musical flow)

HARLEM RENNAISANCE

-1920-1930 modernism in black literature (breaking down racial/ethnic barriers)


-changes to culture subsequent to abolition of slavery


- Foundation of the civil rights struggles


-Provided black identity that transcended white labels


-Linked to post colonialism

LYRIC

-lyric was a song foraccompaniment on the lyre, and could be achoral lyric sung by a group


-common lyric forms are thesonnet, ode, elegy, haiku,