“Poetry focusing on villainy and wrongdoing or even on foolish characters with dark minds‚ often produces engaging material for the reader or the listener”. Consider in what ways foolishness and villainy appears in your six selected poems and in what ways‚ if any‚ it may be of interest. I do agree with the title that poetry‚ villainy and wrong doing do produce more engaging pieces for the reader because everybody likes to see the villain’s attempts at success but as we see in Percy Shelley’s
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1st Semester Exam Review Questions English 4 SELECTIONS FOR TESTING 1. Beowulf 2. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” 3. Canterbury Tales “Prologue” 4. “The Pardoner’s Tale” from CT 5. Sonnets 6. Elements of Style author’s names Terms (know by definition‚ characteristics or example). 1. Kenning: two-word poetic renamings of people‚ places‚ and things such as the kenning whales’ home for the sea ex from Beowulf: “I have come so far
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The Poem “Dover Beach” is a dramatic monologue of thirty-seven lines‚ divided into four unequal sections or “paragraphs” of fourteen‚ six‚ eight‚ and nine lines. In the title‚ “Beach” is more significant than “Dover‚” for it points at the controlling image of the poem. On a pleasant evening‚ the poet and his love are apparently in a room with a window affording a view of the straits of Dover on the southeast coast of England‚ perhaps in an inn. The poet looks out toward the French coast‚ some
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Stylistic Analysis on Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Background of the Poem Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese is a love poem in a sonnet form. Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote this poem in secret when she was being courted by her then husband-to-be‚ Robert Browning. She wrote a series of 44 sonnets and sonnet 43 became the most famous. These series of poems were published in 1850. The poems express her intense and undying love for Robert
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HOMEWORK: POETRY ASSIGNMENT: THE COLLECTED POEMS OF YOU Your marks for the Poetry unit of work will be derived from an assignment and from a short test. The test will be in Week One of Term Four. To revise‚ simply read over the poetry documents you have already read in Term Three. The test will ask you for definitions of some of the words from our terminology list. You will be asked to respond to a poem‚ using some words from the terminology list. You will be asked to answer some short questions
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moving rhythmically. 8-Idealism: A philosophical concept according to which things‚ exist only through our thoughts and ideas. 9-Stanza: A group of poetic verses. 10-Sonnet: A fourteen line poetic form usually makes up of an octave and a sestet embodying the statement and the resolutiondeclaration of a single theme. 11-Fable:It is a narration enforcing some useful truth‚ A short metrical tale in writing especially one in which animals speak and act like human beings. 12-Essay:It is
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Literary Elements Plot Plot is the sequence of related events in a work of literature. It may be simple or complex‚ and it includes what characters do‚ think‚ and say. The word first used by Aristotle for plot in Poetics was mythos (origin of the word myth). According to Aristotle‚ plot was the "soul of tragedy": its "first principle." The general structure of plot is as follows: Exposition: gives information about settings and characters Conflict: struggle between characters or forces
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General View The language of Hopkins’s poems is often striking. His imagery can be simple‚ as in Heaven-Haven‚ where the comparison is between a nun entering a convent and a ship entering a harbour out of a storm. It can be splendidly metaphysical and intricate‚ as it is in As Kingfishers Catch Fire‚ where he leaps from one image to another to show how each thing expresses its own uniqueness‚ and how divinity reflects itself through all of them. He uses many archaic and dialect words‚ but
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Literary Works Sophia Wiggins ENG125: Introduction to Literature Joan Golding October 9‚ 2012 Death is an aspect of life that everyone becomes acquainted with sooner or later. Two poems that deal with the concept of death that I actually enjoyed reading and will compare to each others are “Death be not proud” and “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” These poems seem to have contradictory message about death‚ yet at the same time have similar attitudes toward it.” Death
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is found predominately all throughout literature. Chapter Four: If It’s Square‚ It’s a Sonnet 1. Most lines in sonnets have ten syllables. 2. Sonnets have two parts; the first being the octave that contains 8 lines and the second being the sestet that contains six lines. 3. The two parts of a sonnet have their own separate rhyme
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