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Brit Lit II Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Chiasmus | A figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point; the clauses display inverted parallelism |
| Dramatic Poet | A poem that recounts a drama or tells a story in 3rd person |
| Chameleon Poet | A poet who disappears into the subject of the poem |
| Negative Capability | A poets ability to dwell in uncertainties, mysteries without reaching for facts or an explanation. poetry should trigger an encounter with beauty. |
| Conversation Poem | blank-verse (unrhymed) lyric of description and meditation, directed to a silent listener. |
| Lyrical Ballads (1798) | Published by Coleridge and Wordsworth. Manifesto of principles of Romantic poetry. |
| Egotistical Sublime | Belonging to or designating to the highest sphere of though, existence, or human activity; intellectually or spiritually elevated. transcends the realm of human thought or experience. |
| Generation | The realm of common human experience, suffering and conflicting contraries. the world is divided. |
| Beulah | A natural, pastoral condition of comfortable innocence without a clash of contraries. The world is whole. |
| The Sublime | Opposites coming together. |
| The Dark Sublime | An experience of clashing opposites and destructive, as well as life-giving, power is at the heart of existence. |
| Ode | Poem addressed to a single audience, takes on a symbolic meaning as the poem unfolds. |
| Sonnet | 14 lines, octet, sestet, volta (turn) |
| Epistemology | Philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods and limits on human knowledge, "How we know what we know." |
| Lyric | 1st person, direct out poor of private thoughts |
| Ironic Lyric | Gap between the poet and the speaker, between what the speaker says and the message of the poem. |
| Dramatic Monologue | Single character addresses one audience at a critical moment, reveals himself and the dramatic situation |
| "Art for Art's Sake" | Slogan developed by the Decadents that were bored of the propriety and moral seriousness of the Victorian upper class. |
| Angel in the house | a women must be smart enough to not embarrass her husband, but cannot be smarter than him. |
| Poetry vs. Prose | Poetry- actual, represents experience Prose- ideal, presents a solution |
| Gothic Genre | Catches readers up between the attraction and terrors of a past once controlled by aristocrats. Desires to rejects such a past yet still remains fascinated by aspects of it. |
| The Female Gothic | Women are trapped under destructive power connected with male dominance- too little power Women exercise destructive power connected with male dominance- too much power |
| Prescriptive Verses vs. Descriptive Poetry | Prescriptive- what you should feel, engaged i current events, outer world, other-self Descriptive- how you feel, inner world, inner self, sublime experience, fantastical/immaginative |
| Female Epic | Aurora Leigh |
| Romantic Era (features) | 1785-1830 Industrial Revolution Enclosure of land England- 2 nations Investment in the power of Revolutions (American, French) Dominant poet: Wordsworth |
| Victorian Era (features) | 1837-1901` no significance on individuals expansion of empire, urbanization, industrialization height social class divisions breakdown of social systems organized around Aristocrats high moral seriousness tennyson dom. poet no faith print media |
| Romanticism (Compare/Contrast in diff. poets) | new way of seeing "let nature be your teacher" imagination, subjectivity/innocence of child revolutionary theme, form emphasis on individual opposites coming together elevation of role of poet/poetry lyric form, myth, symbol rejection of authority |
| William Blake | The Lamb The Tyger The Divine Image The Garden of Love Infant Joy Infant Sorrow The Human Abstract |
| William Wordsworth | We Are Seven Expostulation and Reply The Tables Turned Lines My Heart Leaps Ode |
| John Keats | On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer La Belle Dame Sans Merci Ode to a Nightingale Ode to a Grecian Urn |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The Cry of the Children Aurora Leigh |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | The Lotos Eaters verses; 54,55,56,57 |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | The Old Nurse's Story |
| Robert Browning | Porphyria's Lover My Last Duchess |
| Matthew Arnold | Dover Beach |
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