in order to achieve a comic or satiric effect. - Don Juan. Apostrophe - Direct and explicit address to an absent person or to an abstract or non human entity. Often the effect is of high formality‚ or else of a sudden emotional impetus. Many odes are constituted in the mode of an address to a listener who is
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like the strokes of a brush on a canvas‚ shape an image that talks to the eyes. Word-painting‚ of course‚ reflects a poet’s attitude toward nature. Keats was not only the last but one of the sweetest romanticists. He was greatly affected by his solitude. Keats was mostly in the calm bosom of nature‚ far from the hustle and bustle of the city‚ it reveals the beauty of nature to him so that he is named as devotee of nature to beauty. His writings reflect some splendor of the natural world as he saw
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Literature. 2. Neo-Classical can be divided into three parts. 3. Characteristic of the Neo-Classical Age. 4. Poetry. 5. Court Poets. 6. Satiric Poets. 7. Some poets of Neo-classical Age‚ -Mathew Prior -Alexander Pope -James Thomson -Edward Young -William Collins -Thomas Gray -Robert Burns -John Dryden -William Cowper -William Blake
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Before we are able to trace the motives that ushered in Romantic period‚ it is of paramount importance to point out the preceding period‚ which is known as Neo-classical era. The Neoclassical period spans 1600-1798 (the accession of Charles II to the publication by Wordsworth and Coleridge of Lyrical Ballad). It is called the neoclassical period because of reverence for the works of classical antiquity. The period is often called Age of reason‚ and science was used to glorify God and his creation
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Wordsworth‚ he had produced many stories and songs during his period. Wordsworth has been compared to the finest author in English Literature‚ William Shakespeare. Wordsworth’s talent is viewed in his many poems‚ including “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”‚ “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” and “The Solitary Reaper”. In the year 1803‚ Wordsworth‚ his sister‚ and his dear friend and fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge had taken a trip to visit the Scottish highlands. While there‚ they all witnessed solitary
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through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore..." Around this time‚ Keats met Leigh Hunt‚ an influential editor of the Examiner‚ who published his sonnets "On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer" and "O Solitude." Hunt also introduced Keats to a circle of literary men‚ including the poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Wordsworth. The group’s influence enabled Keats to see his first volume‚ Poems by John Keats‚ published in 1817. Shelley‚ who was fond
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Themes: William Wordsworth The Beneficial Influence of Nature Throughout Wordsworth’s work‚ nature provides the ultimate good influence on the human mind. All manifestations of the natural world—from the highest mountain to the simplest flower—elicit noble‚ elevated thoughts and passionate emotions in the people who observe these manifestations. Wordsworth repeatedly emphasizes the importance of nature to an individual’s intellectual and spiritual development. A good relationship with nature
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common short poem uttered by a single speaker who is expressing his state of mind very often in solitude. In dramatic lyric the speaker is represented as addressing another person in a specific situation like the poem Canonization by John Donne. The genre comprehends a great variety of utterances from say the Dramatic Monologues of Browning complex evolution of feeling in the long elegy and the meditative ode. The process of observation‚ thought‚ memory and feelings may be organised in a variety of ways
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Victorian Age The beginning of the Victorian Period is dated sometimes as 1832 (the passage of the first Reform Bill) and sometimes as 1837 (the accession of Queen Victoria). It extends to the death of Victoria in 1901. But when we refer the history book of W. J. Long and literary terms of M. H. Abraham‚ we find that the period between 1850 -1900 is regarded as the Victorian Period‚ which is also known as the Age of Compromise and the Age of Peace and Prosperity. When Victoria came on the
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Report Theme: John Keats’ life and creativity work Presented by Checked by Contents: I. Introduction II. 1. General Information 2. Biography 3. Work * Early Poems (1814 to 1818) * 1814 * 1815 * 1816 * 1818 * 1819 * Letters 4. Criticism 5. Poem desiccated to John Keats III. Conclusion IV. Bibliography Introduction This work has
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