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byron
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darkness
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tintern abbey
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wordsworth
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james joyce
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araby
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1775-1830
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Romantic Poetry Period
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Don Juan
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Lord Byron
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Channel Firing
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Thomas Hardy
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dissect
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to take apart
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hyperbole
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based on exaggeration
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1772-1834
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Life of Samuel Coleridge
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To a Mouse
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Robert Burns
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sprightly
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a lively, animated manner
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metaphor
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no like or as
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Middle-class
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What was Wordsworth's economic background
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Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Essay on Man
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
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Kubla Kahn
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A Noiseless Patient Spider
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Walt Whitman
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Romantic Age
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Literary period from 1798-1837
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"Mutability"
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Shelley; means 'always changing';
uses: Alliteration, simile (people to clouds/lyres), paradox (only change is constant)
point: change is the only constant in life and we cannot control change
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Dialectic
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the philosophical principle that an ides or event (thesis) creates its opposite (antithesis) and leads to reconciliation of opposites (synthesis)
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Denotation
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The dictionary meaning of a word.
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Facing West from California's Shores
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Walt Whitman
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Diction
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the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
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Euphemism
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an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive
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Byronic Hero
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a dark, passionate, moody, remorse-torn yet unrepentant sinner who exiles himself from society
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London
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Where Blake moves to follow his artistic vision
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Phenomenology
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an object gets its meaning only through the active use of consciousness
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Classicism
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A movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms
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Assonance
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he repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry "I rose and told him of my woe."
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Tone
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The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work.
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Satire
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A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.
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linnet
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a small songbird of the finch family
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Romanticism
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a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization
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antithesis
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made up of opposing words or sentiments in parallel construction
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sentimentality
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enjoying the emotions for their own sake
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the human mind
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the main focus of romantic poetry
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Turn
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The shift or point of a dramatic change, often towards the end of a poem.
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Rationalism
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The doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct, the theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth
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Aubade
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A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn, when he must part from his lover.
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Falling Meter
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Poetic meters such as trochaic and dactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
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do not go gentle into that good night
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thomas
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stanza
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a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
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climax
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a series of thoughts is arranged in order of increasing importance
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"Composed on Westminster Bridge"
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Wordsworth; Italian sonnet; written during the industrial revolution overlooking the city in the morning
uses: personification (city); imagery; compares city to nature
Point: Wordsworth uses personification and imagery to depict the natural and serene beauty of London in the early morning
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"Prophetic Book"
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The book in which Blake explains his mythology
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William Blake (1757-1827)
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I Saw a Chapel All of Gold
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Metonymy
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A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea. An example: "We have always remained loyal to the crown."
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the lady in the looking glass: a reflection
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virginia woolf
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Epistrophe
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repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc.
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democracy
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there must be democracy if there is to be equality among people
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Iambic Tetrameter
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Line of a verse with 4 feet (8 syllables)
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Synecdoche
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A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole. An example: "Lend me a hand."
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end rhyme
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occurs when words at the end of lines rhyme
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End stop
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A poetic line that has a pause at the end, reflects normal speech patterns, and are often marked by punctuation
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"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
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Wordsworth; connects to "The Solitary Reaper" because it is a simple moment that had a long-lasting effect
Uses: Simile (comparing his wandering to cloud), metaphor, hyperbole (number of flowers), personification (daffodils), imagery (natural setting)
point:he is in the moment and has a spontaneous overflow of emotion at first but emotions remembered in tranquility have the power to change the mood
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The World is Too much with Us- William Wordsworth
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Materialism/Not seeing beauty in Nature/Loss of Nature
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How does Shelley resolve the conflict between empiricism and idealism in the opening stanza of "Mont Blanc"
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Through a potent metaphor -- a river going through a cave. Empirical - the world exists by itself / Idealistic - everything depends on the mind
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