English 4 SELECTIONS FOR TESTING 1. Beowulf 2. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” 3. Canterbury Tales “Prologue” 4. “The Pardoner’s Tale” from CT 5. Sonnets 6. Elements of Style author’s names Terms (know by definition‚ characteristics or example). 1. Kenning: two-word poetic renamings of people‚ places‚ and things such as the kenning whales’ home for the sea ex from Beowulf: “I have come so far‚ / Oh shelterer of warriors and your people’s
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the suffering of the English people to fulfill their own selfish desires. The ‘old’ King fails to relate to his subjects and thus continues to set a bad example to his successors‚ developing the idea that there is little hope of change any time soon. As the poem continues‚ Shelley lists the flaws in England’s social fabric. The army for example has become a tool used by the elite to ‘prey’ upon the citizens‚ quashing any sign of
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appear: "My name is Ozymandias‚ king of kings: Look on my works‚ ye Mighty‚ and despair!" Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck‚ boundless and bare‚ The lone and level sands stretch far away. Introduction: It is a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ published in 1818 in the 11 January issue of The Examiner in London. It is frequently anthologised and is probably Shelley’s most famous short poem. Theme: Pride: in the inscription on the pedestal Ozymandias calls himself
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my lips have kissed‚ and where‚ and why” In the 1923 sonnet‚ “What lips my lips have kissed‚” Edna St. Vincent Millay speaks about several loves coming to an end and the emotion its gives her while she reminiscences through her past. Two major themes of this sonnet are change and loss. The theme loss is throughout the entire sonnet. Some parts of this sonnet are traditional while other parts are untraditional. This is a modern Italian sonnet. The speaker looks back on her younger days and feels
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General Comments Keats was so moved by the power and aliveness of Chapman’s translation of Homer that he wrote this sonnet--after spending all night reading Homer with a friend. The poem expresses the intensity of Keats’s experience; it also reveals how passionately he cared about poetry. To communicate how profoundly the revelation of Homer’s genius affected him‚ Keats uses imagery of exploration and discovery. In a sense‚ the reading experience itself becomes a Homeric voyage‚ both for the
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variety of ways in different lyrical expressions. Lyric is a poem in which the poet writes about his thoughts and feelings. The basic type is the song‚ but we use the term to cover all poems that present the poet’s immediate response to life‚ including sonnets odes and elegies. Lyric poem deals with a range of experiences such as love‚ death‚ nature or religion or some domestic‚ social or political issue *ΔAbstract Poem: It is a term used by Dame Edith Sitwell for verse that depends chiefly upon its auditory
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1 The Sonnet 10.1.2 The Courtly Love Tradition and Poetry The Alnoretti Sonnets 10.2.1 Sonnet 34 10.2.2 Sonnet 67 10.2.3 Sonnet 77 Let’s Sum Up Questions for Review Additional Reading 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.0 OBJECTIVES The intent of this unit is to: 4 4 4 4 Provide the student with a brief idea about the Amoretti sonnets in general. Familiarize the student with a select few of Spenser’s sonnets‚ specifically from the Amoretti sonnets. Indicate seine ways of analysing the sonnets that
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in styles of writing‚ many similarities can be found within these three sonnets such as the theme and the way in which they convey their emotions. Shakespeare Love and Death Rhyme Scheme and Iambic Pentameter Metaphors and Imagery Conclusion: Topic Sentence Outline Introduction: Thesis: Although these writers differ in styles of writing‚ many similarities can be found within these three sonnets such as the theme and the way in which they convey their emotions. William
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Analysis of "Anthem for Doomed Youth" Most sonnets are about love but Wilfred Owen’s sonnet‚ "Anthem for Doomed Youth"‚ is somewhat different. It is honoring and remembering the soldiers who died. However‚ it is more or less criticizing those who did not think the young‚ lower ranking soldiers deserved a real funeral. The very first line of the poem presents two symbols. The first is the "bell" or a "passing-bell" and the second is "cattle". The bell could symbolize a couple of things
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‘Analyze How Poets Have Used the Sonnet Form to Explore Ideas About Love and Mortality’ Sonnets have been used to paint a detailed picture of human emotion‚ tradition and culture‚ through the centuries. Originally‚ they began in the 14th century and each era inherited the collections of fourteen lined literary genius and reworked its form‚ subject or use of sensual imagery in order to allow the literature to represent the moods of the time. The word “sonnet” comes from the Italian word‚ ‘sonnetto’
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