The Artisans: Although artisans produced many beautiful and necessary goods‚ such as clothes‚ cooking utensils‚ and woodblock prints‚ they were considered less important than the farmers. Even skilled samurai sword makers and boatwrights belonged to this third tier of society in feudal Japan. The artisan class lived in its own section of the major cities‚ segregated from the samurai (who usually lived in the daimyos’ castles)‚ and from the lower merchant class. The Merchants: The bottom rung of feudal
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Introduction: Know the definition of the following terms: art‚ aesthetic‚ gestalt‚ imagery‚ imagination‚ and verisimilitude. What is the difference between denotation and connotation? What is a metaphor? What is a simile? How can you tell them apart? What would be the subject matter of a portrait‚ a still life‚ or a landscape? Criticism: What is the purpose of criticism? What is the critical process? What issues might a formal critic and a contextual critic disagree on? What is propaganda
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“Hope” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul….. And sings the tune without the words….. And never stops….at all…. And sweetest… in the Gale….is heard… And sore must be the storm That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm I’ve heard it in the chillest land… And on the strangest Sea Yet‚ never‚ in Extremity It asked a crumb …. of Me Dickinson defines hope by comparing it to a bird (a metaphor) .
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4. Write in free verse. Imagism Authors include Ezra Pound‚ Amy Lowell‚ William Carlos Williams‚ Hilda Doolittle Imagism Ran from about 1912-1917 Imagism They were influenced by Japanese haiku‚ a form of short lyric verse that arose in the 16th century. The goal of a haiku was to capture a single impression of a natural object or scene within a particular season in 17 syllables in three unrhymed lines of five‚ seven‚ and five syllables. Imagism Poems include "A Lover" (1917)
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The blackbird is the only element in nature which is aesthetically compatible with bleak light and bare limbs: he is‚ we may say‚ a certain kind of language‚ opposed to euphony‚ to those "noble accents and lucid inescapable rhythms" which Stevens used so memorably elsewhere in Harmonium. … There are thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird because thirteen is the eccentric number; Stevens is almost medieval in his relish for external form. This poetry will be one of inflection and innuendo; the inflections
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Poetry I. SIFT a. Symbol a.i. Examine the title and text for symbolism b. Images b.i. Identify the images and sensory details c. Figures of Speech c.i. Analyze figurative language and other devices d. Tone and Theme d.i. Discuss how all devices reveal tone and theme II. Reading Skills and Strategies a. Look for punctuation b. Do not make a full stop at the end of a line if there is no period‚ comma‚ colon‚ semicolon‚ or dash c. If the poem is difficult to understand‚ look for the subject
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Identify: a) Yoritomo Minamoto: Yoritomo Minamoto was the shogun in 1192‚ and set up the first military dynasty that lasted for 700 years. b) Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a general who‚ by 1590‚ had most of Japan under his control. After failing to conquer Korea and China‚ he died in 1598. c) Tokugawa Ieyasu: Tokugawa Ieyasu was a general who defeated all rivals after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi to found the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603. Under his rule‚ their government
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In the story “Seventeen Syllables” the role of women is one that is repressed‚ and I believe it is that way due to the traditional patriarchal beliefs and culture. Although this has not always been their way of thinking‚ it is the one that has dominated for hundreds of years and changed very little in more recent times. It was even the common way of thinking in 1950‚ the year “Seventeen Syllables” was written. Japanese culture has changed a lot in its thousands of years of history‚ and so has its
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Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written work. The word literature literally means: "things made from letters". Literature is commonly classified as having two major forms—fiction and non-fiction—and two major techniques—poetry and prose. Literature may consist of texts based on factual information (journalistic or non-fiction)‚ a category that may also include polemical works‚ biographies‚ and reflective essays‚ or it may consist of texts based on imagination (such
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Stephen Sondheim American lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim was born on March 22‚ 1930‚ in New York City. After early practice at songwriting‚ he gained much of his knowledge of musical theater from working with master lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II. Sondheim’s contributions to West Side Story and Gypsy in the 1950s brought him recognition as a rising star of Broadway. His major works for the theater include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum‚ Sweeney Todd‚ Sunday in the Park With
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