Tragedy came to be made up of episodes divided by choral odes. Within the odes‚ the chorus would vocalize rhythmically‚ so they would not be looked at as individuals‚ but as one body. They function to offer time for scene changes and give the most important actors a break. In some plays the chorus take the part of a
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Congreve : The way of the World Goldsmith : She stoops to conquer Unit-III - MODERN LITERATURE (1798 - 1832) Poetry For Detailed Study Wordsworth : Immortality Ode‚ Tintern Abbey Coleridge : Ode to Dejection‚ Kubla Khan Keats : Ode on a Grecian Urn‚ Ode to Autumn. Shelley : Ode to the West Wind
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twenty-four. As most would wonder‚ how does one who has gone through so much pain and suffering make sense of it all? In response to this question‚ Keats in his poetry emphasized making positives out of unfortunate circumstances and in poems such as Ode to Melancholy and Fall to Hyperion he establishes the belief that pain could be beneficial to life and something worth embracing. He states this perspective himself in a letter he wrote to George and Georgina Keats in May 1819 stating “Do you not see
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ability to control our fate? The author of the choral ode feels that we do not have the power to be in command of our fate and our destiny is already decided. Contrasting this belief the writer of “Invictus” believes in free will and the opportunity to control and overcome our fate. Every person has their own set of beliefs that can be similar or very different to those who surround them. Sophocles proclaims the idea of fate through the choral ode. He believed that everything you do you must always
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left this world way too early but when he passed‚ he left get amazing literature. His stories has many messages to them that you can’t help but think of what he had to say as the reader reads each line of his stories. The message that brings up in Ode on a Grecian Urn for example‚ brings up how art is the true beauty of this world and how art speaks in many different ways that a person really wouldn’t think of. Keats wanted the people that read his stories to think about the messages behind each
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Compareing Shelley’s conception of nature with that of Wordsworth as expressed in the two poems “Ode to the West Wind” and “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey.” Paying special attention to the three ‘T’s: tone‚ technique‚ and theme. The two chosen pieces both have a dominant theme of nature. Shelley‚ in his poem “Ode to the West Wind‚” uses poignant tone‚ while using personification and imagery to unravel his theme of nature
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Life and Works of Ancient Greek Writers ENGLISH – YEAR 11 HOMER Homer was the most important and earliest of the Greek and Roman writers. Greeks and Romans didn’t count themselves educated unless they knew his poems. His influence was felt not only on literature‚ but on ethics and morality via lessons from his masterpieces. He is the first source to look for information on Greek myth and religion. Yet‚ despite his prominence‚ we have no firm evidence that he ever lived. In the Western classical
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BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN KEATS Born in London‚ England‚ on October 31‚ 1795‚ John Keats devoted his short life to the perfection of poetry marked by vivid imagery‚ great sensuous appeal and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend. In 1818 he went on a walking tour in the Lake District. His exposure and overexertion on that trip brought on the first symptoms of the tuberculosis‚ which ended his life. Quotes "If Poetry comes not as naturally as Leaves to a tree it had better not
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Blake versus Keats Although William Blake and John Keats have very different writing styles both poets use images of nature in their poems. Blake’s "Introduction"‚ from Songs of Innocence‚ uses simple language. Keats’ "Ode on Melancholy" is dramatic. Although both authors use nature in their poems‚ Keats provides emotional drama to nature‚ while Blake’s references to nature are very simple and unclear. The nature imagery in Blake’s "Introduction" is that nature is wild and unpredictable. The
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which came from the word theatron meaning “seeing place”‚ drama‚ which came from the word dran meaning “ to do”. Chorus‚ which was the character that told what has been happening in the play‚ and ode meaning part of the play when the chorus speaks or sings. Also‚ strophe‚ which is when during the ode‚ the chorus crosses from stage right to stage left and the opposite directions for antistrophe. Another word that came for the ancient Greek theater was hypocrites‚ which were the leading actors‚ or
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