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113 Cards in this Set
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synecdoche
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a metaphor in which a part is used in place of a whole
"head of cattle" |
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metanomy
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use of single characteristic to define a more complex thing
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romanticism
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plato-- "truth is spiritual" reality must be sought after in shadows of imperfect world, believe that quest in life is to retreive lost innocence, must imagine truth
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rationalism
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"truth is physical" world is ordered, structured, everything we know can be achieved through reason, assume everything is truthful
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hymn to intellectual beauty
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percy bysshe shelly, within the spirit lies truth, emphasizes imagination, compares reality to shadows
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an essay on man
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alexander pope, life is structured and outlined, nature contains ultimate order, god creator of all order and reason, all aspects of life even with evil are essentially right
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song of myself
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walt whitman, romanticism published in "leaves of grass" dislikes education, nature is a sign of democracy,
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when i heard the learn'd astronomer
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walt whitman, romanticism, couldn't stand the boring order of lecture, wanted to be in touch with reality so went underneath stars
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a song for st. cecilia's day
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john dryden, rationalism, music is mathematical, ordered, god made music, therefore its good, harmony when we come together as one
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metaphor
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implied comparison, without using like or as
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simile
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stated comparision using like or as
"his eyes were green like a fresh pickled toad" |
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"london"
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william blake, angry with city, conveys emotions with imagery, repetition, diction
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"songs of innocence"
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william blake, mostly written to children/spoken through children, use lambs as symbol of innocence, carefree as children
"introduction," "the shephard," "the ecchoing green," "the lamb" |
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"holy thursday" (innocence)
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parallel poems, refers to acension day in st. pauls cathedral in london, kids coming in, references to baptism, holy spirit, diction= use of innocent, redbluegreen, white as snow
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"holy thursday" (experience)
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uses irony, wondering if the sight of children is holy, eternal winter imagery
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"the chimney sweeper"
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blake, parallel poems, innocence= tone of acceptance, encouraged by dream where angel unlocks coffin// experience= child responds, doesn't understand whats happening, adults lose innocence and become ignorant
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"the little vagabond"
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blake, speaker= child who drifted away, church and ale house have same qualities= drink, music, fellowship/ give church warmth & ale= pray all day [[indictment against church]]
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"the divine image"
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blake, mercy, pity, peace, love= virtues of book, lots of imagery, gets preachy at end= weakness
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"the human abstract"
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blake, abstract means "total history" loss of innocence creates good, allusion to adam and eve, final line- brain cross cut looks like tree
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"a poison tree"
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growing wrath for enemy= watered, sunned (imagery), lets enemy meet own downfall
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epic
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a long narrative poem, about serious subject
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dramatic
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poetry written in voice of character assumed by poet
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lyric
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poem with song like qualities
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syllables
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basic unit of pronunciation
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scansion
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scanning line of poetry to determine its meter
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caesura
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natural pause in speaking
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alliteration
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repetition of speech sounds in nearby words (usually consonants)
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foot
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combination of two or three stressed/unstressed syllables
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iambic
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unstressed, stressed
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trochaic
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stressed, unstressed
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anapestic
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two unstressed, stressed
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dactylic
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stressed, two unstressed
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spondaic
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two successive stressed syllables
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pyrrhic
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two successive unstressed syllables
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monometer
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line with one foot
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dimeter
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line with two feet
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trimeter
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line with three feet
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tetrameter
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line with four feet
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pentamer
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line with five meet, most popular
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base rhythm
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pentameter
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hexameter
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line with six feet
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heptameter
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line with seven feet
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alexandrine
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iambic hexameter, provides resonant termination to stanza of shorter lines
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octameter
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line with eight feet
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end-stopped
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caesura occurs naturally at end of line
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enjambment
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sentence carries over into next line
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syllabic meter
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measures number of syllables
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first paeon
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stressed, three unstressed
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quantitive meter
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measures feet according to duration of speech
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rhyme
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concurrence, in two+ lines of last stressed vowel and all sounds after
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end rhymes
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occur at end of line
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internal rhyme
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rhyme occurs inside word
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assonance
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repetition of vowel sounds
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consonance
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repeition of consonant sounds
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onomatopoeia
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word sounds like what it means
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feminine rhyme
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two syllables of rhyme
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masculine rhyme
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one syllable of rhyme
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perfect rhyme
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rhyme sound is exact
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poetic license
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violation of rules of versification
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eye rhymes
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word looks like it should rhyme, but jk lol it doesn't
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off rhyme/slant rhyme
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changes vowel sound or ending consonant
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vowel rhyme
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only vowel sounds rhyme
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pararhyme
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stressed vowel is different but has similar sounding consonants on each side
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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dramatic monologue
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single speaker addresses audience in specific situation at critical moment
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verse paragraph
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stanza
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couplet
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two lines
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heroic couplet
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used in epic poems, act alone
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tercet
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three lines, usually linked with single rhyme
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terza rima
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second line each stanza rhymes with first and third of next
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quatrain
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most common, four lines
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ballad stanza
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type quatrain, abcb
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rhyme royal
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seven line iambic pentameter ababbcc
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ottava rima
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eight line stanza, abababcc
don juan |
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spenserian stanza
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nine lines, first eight iambic pentameter, last alexandrine
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sonnet
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fourteen lines of iambic pentameter
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italian sonnet
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octave (abba, abba) sestet (cde, cde)
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english sonnet
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three quatrains (abab, cdcd, efef) couplet (gg)
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spenserian sonnet
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three quatrains (abab, bcbc, cdcd) couplet (ee)
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sestet
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six lines
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turn
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change in direction of narrative or argument
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villanelle
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five tercets (aba) quatrain (abaa) other crazy flipping rhyming shit
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limerick
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five line stanza, nonsense verse
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elegy
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formal lament for dead
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ode
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long lyric poems of elevated style and crazy structure
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pindaric ode
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three part structure
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horatian ode
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uses repeated stanza form
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closed forms
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sonnet, villanelle, sestina
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prose poems
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cross between prose and poetry
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free verse
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no use of traditional rhyme/meter
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the rime of the ancient mariner
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coleridge, composed of allegory, "the story of every soul", ballad, albatross= loss of innocence, connection between albatross and conscience, blessing of snakes is romantic concept praying=freedom, in search of reality
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the rape of the lock
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alexander pope, problems solved rationalistically, belinda portrays sweet, attractive qualities, she is like everyone, flirt, meant to fall in love can't be flirt forever, beauty and charm less important than merit (clarissa= sees clearly)
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mock-epic
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form of satire in which petty characters and trivial events are amde ridiculous by being incongruously presented in all the pomp and ceremony of epic characterization, narration and style
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tintern abbey
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william wordsworth, romantic lyric poem, nature is wild/untamed, nature doesn't change=able to trust, three stages of life, lose things but gain more
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effects of nature
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1)physical
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ode intimations of immortality
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william wordsworth, pantheism, when growing up taught to forget pleasant things, always questioning
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ode to duty
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william wordsworth, epigraph from seneca, always putting things off, attitude towards work should be to serve others, define ourselves with work
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dejection: an ode
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coleridge, creates life of romantic who sees life with dejection & sadness, always in pursuit of perfection
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felix randal
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(gerard hopkins) italian sonnet about janitor that died, sharing grief, never thought of bad things in future- we should, sestet is core
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adam's curse
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(william butler yeats) paragraph stanzas, organized around overheard conversation between poet & 2 women, poets work harder than everyone but no credit, women labor to be pretty
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sailing to byzantium
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(william yeats) byzantium is ideal place of beauty truth goodness which we seek, ottava rima
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birches
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(robert frost) romanticism of climbing to heaven, always want to get back down from death
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the stolen child
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(william yeats) chorus ties together, told from perspective of nature in chorus, organized around description of place where child goes to escape sadness
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boy at the window
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(richard wilbur) boy looking at snowman, vice versa, boy filled with fear for snowman, snowman feels sorry for boy filled with warmth and love, reflect on what it is to be human, paradoxical warm/cold/ speaker: observer
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spring and fall
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(gerard hopkins) addressed to margaret, child, emotional about falling leaves, will cry for different things when older, always sufferning for self
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a storm in april
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(richard wilbur) quatrains, organized around end of winter to beginning of spring, metaphor of snow/salt in infertile carthage, white imagery, death is not end
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to an athlete dying young
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(a.e. housman) commemorates death of athlete carry on shoulders in victory and in death, will not see the painful things of living athletes
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next to of course god america i
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(ee cummings) sonnet mix of english/italian, speaker= political figure, pieces of patriotic songs
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for kr on her sixtieth birthday
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(richard wilbur) quatrains, repetition of "blow out candles..." hesitiation of growing older, will not leave in dark, references to blake, plato
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ars poetica
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(archibald macleish) metaphors about what poetry is/ is not, is suggestive
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the lake isle of innisfree
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(william yeats) place yearn for peace, romantic notion
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the cool web
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(robert graves) kids say things honestly, web=language, death brings truth
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don juan
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(lord byron) satirizes everything (romantic writers, spanish) against church, education, government, marriage, mom didn't have education but seems like she did, doesn't want don juan seeing indecent stuff
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