Wordsworth met Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1795. Wordsworth was extremely influenced by Coleridge. With the encouragement from Coleridge and Wordsworth’s stimulation by the close contact with nature‚ Wordsworth composed his first masterwork‚ Lyrical Ballads. From there Wordsworth wrote many poems in depth about nature. Many critical authors will argue on the topic of whether or not Wordsworth was actually influenced by nature or if his obsession with nature distracted him. Geoffrey Hartman
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the unearthly and too removed from reality”. How far do you agree with this statement? The ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ is a poem from the Romantics period in literature and is written by Coleridge who collaborated with Wordsworth on the ‘Lyrical Ballads’. It is about a Mariner who stops one of three wedding guests and tells him a story of when he set sail and all that happens. The poem meddles and swarms in the supernatural and the gothic which adds to the tension and questions surrounding the
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"Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is first and foremost the album that gave rise to ’hopes of progress in pop music" (The Times‚ 29 May 1967) Did the impact of the Beatles Sgt Pepper album help redefine popular music as a culturally significant art form? Summary of Assignment Choose an artist from the period 1900-1970 and to examine their relationship to the cultural and social framework of their era with reference to an important or influential album. Introduction In this essay I
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The Enlightenment was a period of individualism‚ science‚ rationalism‚ and of the human right ’ to govern nature. Poets and authors focused on creating perfect pieces of literature‚ and hoped that by some means their work would be considered sublime ’. With the coming of the Industrial Revolution and the age of Romanticism‚ several poets such as Blake‚ Wordsworth‚ and Coleridge sought the sublime ’ within the realms of nature. The Romantics began to create a new model of poetry through focusing
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passages and dialogues of the personages; - narration broken by digressions (philosophical‚ psychological‚ lyrical‚ etc.); - an account of events interwoven with a humorous (ironical‚ satirical) portrayal of society‚ or the personage‚ etc.); Compositional Forms: narration‚ description‚ argumentation. VI. Define the prevailing mood (tone‚ slant‚) of the extract (lyrical‚ dramatic‚ tragic‚ optimistic/pessimistic‚ melodramatic‚ sentimental‚ emotional/unemotional‚ pathetic‚ dry and matter-of-fact
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immensity and indifference 14. Why did Henry David Thoreau begin his experiment of living at Walden Pond? To live simply 15. Why did the Romantics revere Prometheus? For being a suffering but noble champion of human freedom 16. Why in Lyrical Ballads did Wordsworth chose to focus on people from "humble and rustic life"? They were closer to nature
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The Yellow River Piano Concerto Xian Xinghai * Xian was born in 1905 in Pungu in China. * He joined the communist party in 1938 where he composed the Yellow River Cantata. * The Yellow River was considered by the Chinese as the cradle of China’s civilisation and its sorrow. * The cantata was an eight movement work for chorus orchestra and soloists with narration in between. Yellow River Cantata * The cantata aimed to express the troubles of the people who lived on the banks
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CALYPSO MUSIC Calypso is one of the most significant traditions in the Caribbean Music Industry. ‘Come‚ Mister tally man‚ tally me banana‚ daylight come and me wan’ go home‚” are the words to a famous calypso song recorded by Harry Belafonte in 1956. The Free Dictionary defines calypso music as ‘a type of music that originated in the West Indies‚ notably in Trinidad‚ and is characterized by improvised lyrics on topical or broadly humorous subjects’. It can also be said that calypso is a certain
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Kubla Khan Interpretative Approaches "The poem itself is below criticism"‚ declared the anonymous reviewer in the Monthly Review (Jan 1817); and Thomas Moore‚ writing in the Edinburgh Review (Sep 1816)‚ tartly asserted that "the thing now before us‚ is utterly destitute of value" and he defied "any man to point out a passage of poetical merit" in it.2 While derisive asperity of this sort is the common fare of most of the early reviews‚ there are‚ nevertheless‚ contemporary readers whose response
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women of the middle classes. Business owners were forced to adopt methods of written book-keeping and accounting. The personal letter became a favourite medium of communication among 17th-century men and women as many Dutch period paintings show. The prefaces‚ the escapist subject matter‚ and a number of satires on the early consumption of fiction show that cheap histories were especially popular among apprentices and younger urban readers of both sexes.[28] Norris’ and Bettesworth’s 1719 edition of The
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