Historical Context From Wu pp. 3-47 Week II: from Wu 48-101 Week III: Romanticism and Enlightenment from Day‚ pp:1-79‚ 126-183. French Revolution and Romanticism from Jarvis pp: 1-43‚ 143-172 (outside reading) Week IV: Pre-romantics: William Collins “Ode to Evening” James Thomson from “The Seasons” Thomas Gray “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” Edmund Burke‚ from Reflections on the Revolution in France and Thomas Paine from The Rights of Man (outside reading) Week V: William Blake From Songs
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Walter Scott) – gothic novel‚ horror (Mary Shelley) The Lake Poets The Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge The second generation George Gordon Byron: Childe Harold´s Pilgrimage Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale Other romantic poets • William Blake: The Tyger • Robert Burns Historical novel Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe - Wilfred of Ivanhoe - Richard I - Locksley (Robin Hood) - Lady Rowena Gothic novel Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
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Art is important because it is the only thing we have that rewrites history. Without art we would have no clue what our ancestors before us have done. “ O Attic shape! Fair attitude! With brede” (Line 41 from Ode to a Grecian Urn) This to me shows that he was admiring the urn and trying to figure out its story. Sometimes when looking at art you have to decipher the story within it. Angela Eckhoff discusses why it is important that we have art and how it helps
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Romantic period analysis The beauty of nature and its ability to set you free‚ the powers of imagination‚ individuality and a rebellion to tyranny are some of the ideas the romantic period brought to society’s attention. While rejecting neoclassical views of order‚ reason‚ tradition‚ society and formal diction. Romanticism allowed people to get away from the constrained rational views of life and concentrate on an emotional and sentimental side of humanity. The definition of poetry by
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favourite‚ ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’‚ is Yeats as the disillusioned man whose “heart is sore”‚ the man of “unrequited love”‚ the man aware of mortality. In ‘Sailing to Byzantium’‚ Yeats symbolises universal man in search of meaning and permanence amid the transience of life. Who couldn’t be intrigued by this man! In ‘The Lake Isle of Inisfree’‚ Yeats echoes for me‚ the longing we all experience at times to escape the urban jungle‚ the “pavements grey”. This grim image of oppression
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imposing religious structure‚ a chapel‚ to highlight his theme of papal dominance of natural urges. The Sixteenth verse of Shelley’s "Ode to Liberty" also deals with ecclesiastical oppression of the individual but does so with a more powerful sense of vitriol than Blake’s somewhat disconsolate tone and also implies a grander scale. Shelley opens the Sixteenth verse of Ode to Liberty with the words: "Oh that the wise from their bright minds would kindle‚ such lamps within the dome of this dim world"
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My heart aches‚ and a drowsy numbness pains My sense‚ as though of hemlock I had drunk‚ Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past‚ and Lethe-wards had sunk: ’Tis not through envy of thy happy lot‚ But being too happy in thy happiness‚—- That thou‚ light-winged Dryad of the trees‚ In some melodious plot Of beechen green‚ and shadows numberless‚ Singest of summer in full-throated ease. O for a draught of vintage‚ that hath
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1 Annexure ‘I’ M.A. English Part-I & II The Appendix ‘A’ (Outlines of Tests) and Appendix ‘B’ (Syllabi & Courses of Reading for M.A. English Part-I and Part-II shall be effective from the Session 2002-2003. The class admitted in the year 2002 will take their M.A. English Part-I Examination of 2003 according to new syllabus in the year 2003: - M.A. (English) Part I Examination of 2003 Appendix ‘A’ (Outlines of Tests) Marks Paper I (Classical Poetry) Paper II (Drama) Paper III (Novel) Paper
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myth of permanence. Power and wealth were significant to Ozymandias‚ but after death‚ everything declines. 11. Alliteration is used as there are several words that start with the same letter‚ or example "besides‚" "boundless‚" and "bare"; "lone" and "level"; "sands" and "stretch." 12. The poem finishes with a melancholic note‚ as the empty scene depicted makes the huge wreck seem forlorn. 13. This poem is a sonnet. 14. The author’s purpose in writing this poem is about transience- how none
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connected with heaven‚ meaning that her beauty is divine or angelic. Then‚ the poet‚ apart from the appearance‚ unfolds information on her voice which is compared to a nightingale which is considered to be also a very peaceful sound. Traditionally‚ the nightingale was thought to be the female calling to the male and thus the nightingale is a common association with a desirable woman. In the fourth stanza‚ he associates shooting starts‚ which shine brightly and shimmer as they descend with the sparkle
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