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    CLASSICAL BACKGROUND GREEK Background: Mythology‚ Heroic Age‚ Epic‚ Lyric (The Four Schools)‚ Tragedy‚ Comedy. Poetry Prose Drama Homer = Iliad Aristotle=Poetics Sophocles= King Oedipus‚Antigone Odyssey Plato =Republic Aeschylus

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    British Literature Exam #1- The Romantic Period What is imagination‚ the act or power of forming mental images of what is not present. The use of imagination in Romantic poetry was vital to the success of poets. Imagination allows the poet to transform different ideas into one great 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

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    William Wordsworth’s poetry is characteristic of poetry written during the Romantic period. His pantheism and development of ambiance‚ the thoughts and feelings expressed and the diction Wordsworth employs are all symbolic of this period’s poetry. In this paper‚ these characteristics will be explored and their "Romantic" propensities exposed. This will be done by utilizing a wide selection of Wordsworth’s poetry spanning the poet’s lifetime. His experiences are certainly mirrored in the subject

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    Lit. 103 World Literatures Preliminary Examination Reviewer ------------------------------------------------- Indian-Chinese-Japanese Indian Literature Aryan race- invaded India from North West * Brahmanism‚ Hinduism‚ and Jainism were their religions Gautama Buddha- made many changes in the old religion; his teachings later became the basis for one of the five major religions Sanskrit- oldest extant Aryan language‚ used in most Ancient Indian literature 2 Periods of Indian Literature

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    The Role Of Nature In Romantic Poetry Focusing On Wordsworth‚Keats And Shelley Statement Of Problem Many english literature students‚when faced with romantic poetry due to lack of familiarity the importance and place of nature in romantic poetry ‚don`t understand deeply.therfore‚this study attempts to highlight the role of nature in romanticism for English literature students. Purpose In the present study an attempt has been made to investigate the role of nature and it`s effects on the romantic

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    Shakespeare’s Sonnets William Shakespeare The Sonnet Form A sonnet is a fourteen-line lyric poem‚ traditionally written in iambic pentameter—that is‚ in lines ten syllables long‚ with accents falling on every second syllable‚ as in: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” The sonnet form first became popular during the Italian Renaissance‚ when the poet Petrarch published a sequence of love sonnets addressed to an idealized woman named Laura. Taking firm hold among Italian poets‚ the sonnet

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    meaning "seize the day"‚ a Latin phrase from one of Horace’s Odes" (32). As in sonnet 18 Shakespeare writes how his beloved differs from the summer in that respect: his beauty will last forever‚ "Thy eternal summer shall not fade..." (9)‚ and never die. In the couplet‚ Shakespeare explains how his beloved’s beauty will accomplish this feat‚ and not perish because it is preserved in the poem‚ which will last forever‚ "and ensure the immortality of his muse." (Mabillard)‚ "so long as men can breathe or

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    death is an issue that we will all have to deal with at some point in our lives and like all Romantics they sought to give it meaning. ____Both writers‚ William Wordsworth and John Keats express a fascination and longing toward eternity and immortality. ____Two of these poets‚ John Keats and William Wordsworth‚ employ these themes in their most prominent poetic works; love‚ nature‚ poetry‚ oneness‚ beauty‚ lover‚ world‚ life and some others. ____ Keats and Wordsworth both focus quite intensely

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    supernatural‚ the exotic‚ and the medieval. But they also found beauty in the lives of simple rural people and aspects of the everyday world. The second generation of romantic poets included John Keats‚ Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ and Lord Byron. In Keats’s great odes‚ intellectual and emotional sensibility merge in language of great power and beauty. Shelley‚ who combined soaring lyricism with an apocalyptic political vision‚ sought more extreme effects and occasionally achieved them‚ as in his great drama Prometheus

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    ONCE UPON A TIME THE speaker in this poem reminisces about a time when people were sincere and caring in their dealings with one another; he speaks regretfully about the present time‚ when people are not like before. He seems to feel that people have lost the innocence and openness which he now sees in his young son; he wants to regain that innocence. The poem starts with the well-known words "Once upon a time"‚ suggesting that what the speaker is going to say is a fairy tale‚ something so far-fetched

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