2008 AP® ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION SECTION II Total time—2 hours Question 1 In the two poems below‚ Keats and Longfellow reflect on similar concerns. Read the poems carefully. Then write an essay in which you compare and contrast the two poems‚ analyzing the poetic techniques each writer uses to explore his particular situation. When I Have Fears When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean’d my
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wanderings of the adventurer‚ Odysseus‚ and has been called the greatest story ever told. During the English Renaissance‚ dramatic poets like John Milton‚ Christopher Marlowe‚ and of course Shakespeare gave us enough to fill textbooks‚ lecture halls‚ and universities. Poems from the romantic period include Goethe’s Faust (1808)‚ Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan" and John Keats’ "Ode on a Grecian Urn." Shall I go on? Because in order to do so‚ I would have to continue through 19th century Japanese poetry‚ early
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studied. (42 marks) Through the three texts ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’‚ ‘Lamia’ and ‘The lady of Shalott’ by John Keats and Alfred Tennyson respectively‚ we see the different representations of women; ranging from Keats’ hostile and misogynistic representation of women to Tennyson’s sympathetic yet somewhat limited representation of women. In ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’‚ as indicated by the title‚ Keats instantly casts women as unremorseful and without compassion. As soon as the first three lines‚ we can
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thought. Using this attracts an audience and pulls them into the poets’ thoughts. During the Romantic Era‚ many poets were able to capture their audience through their use of imagination throughout their poems. This essay will cover three poets‚ (Blake‚ Keats and Shelley) and their own personal uses of imagination. Also‚ it will cover the comparisons in the use of imagination. Blake‚ a poet from the 1700-1800’s‚ used his imagination to draw his audience in‚ but leave them thinking afterwards. In the
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Autumn The first paragraph in John Keats‘ poem “To Autumn“ is proposing us a picture of the season. Contrary to popular image of an approach to a stage where everything is covered in snow and resting‚ the poem shows the warm side of this seson. The fertile and mature side of it. There is also a partial picture of the coming cold weather but the majority of the poem is focused on the remains of Summer and warmth reflected in Autumn. The description starts with a general characteristics of the
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(Blake‚ Coleridge‚ Wordsworth‚ Byron‚ Shelly and Keats in particular) as a philosophical and poetic revolt against rationalism. Nature‚ not just the physicality of nature‚ but human rational and the balance of life‚ heavily influenced the writings of the Romantics. In the majority of Keats’ odes‚ he stresses upon the importance of accepting that with the good comes the bad‚ with the right comes the wrong‚ with the pain comes the joy. An example of Keats’ emphasis on coming to terms with the mixed nature
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Time‚ as exemplified by “Ode on a Grecian Urn‚” by Jon Keats and “The Day Lady Died‚” by Frank O’Hara‚ both explore the value of using time to leave a mark and allow generations to relive it through out‚ however Keats poem represents images of stillness and of silence versus O’Hara’s poem which fixates on the rush of time. It no longer exists in the original circumstance in which it was creating‚ by some artist because it is made of stone‚ the urn is essentially an eternal piece of art‚ exempt from
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Truth and Beauty Essay takes Keats’ poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" to illustrate that beauty is not necessarily truth when a pleasing form replaces substance. TRUTH AND BEAUTYAt this point in the year‚ when time is measured by how many shopping days are left... the Jewish person often finds himself re-defining who he is in relationship to his Judaism. The festival of Chanukah - the most noticeable aspect of Kislev‚ is all about redefining and rededicating ourselves to the values and principles
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The romantic poets had high regard and appreciation of nature‚ beauty and the passive‚ female aspect of life. The six most well-known English authors are Blake‚ William Wordsworth‚ Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ Lord Byron‚ Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. William Blake was an English poet‚ painter‚ and printmaker who was unrecognised until after his death. He was born in 28 November‚ 1757. He died with illness on 12 August‚ 1827 at the age of 69. His most famous work was The Marriage of Heaven
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Josephine Hong 031 Term Paper June 6‚ 2011 Two Generations Apart Throughout time‚ literature has always been used as an outlet for debate and discussion of structural flaws. Thus‚ the poets of the Romantic period sought to change society’s neoclassic state of mind by breaking away from reliance on reasoning and instead encouraging individualism‚ using imagination and emotion as inspiration. Initially‚ Romantic poetry became the antithesis of classical poety as the poets soley challenged the
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