ENG 2340 - Exam 1 Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| VOLK | People. ethnicity/importance of specific social group. Reaction to Enlightenment. Individual nations/people. NATIONALISM. |
| ROUSSEAU'S VALUES | Freedom, unique human goodness, TRUTH about himself, what is INSIDE, imagination not logic |
| Tintern Abbey V. Ode on Intimations of Immortality | Wordsworth themes: LYRIC poet, tells his OWN STORY, no personas. Tinturn: nature, past, growing up; something lost/something gainedOde: bittersweet past, less optImistic than tinturn abbey, we lose something vital |
| ROMANTICISM CONTRADICTIONS | Full of (inconsistant) EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS, NOT LOGIC/RATIONAL THOUGHT. negative capability fits here. |
| BLAKE & RELIGION | Old Testament God, considered himself a Christian, logic was "immoral," God lives within people, Jesus = imagination, visionary.Thought people didn't use their imaginations enough...when you use them, you become closer to God. |
| BLAKE IS UNLIKE OTHER ROMANTICS...WHY? | Used PERSONAS/MASKS. Used PERSPECTIVISM - (opposite of a LYRIC poet) speakers in his poems take on persona more than himself, while other poets discussed their own objectives. |
| BLAKE IS LIKE OTHER ROMANTICS...HOW? | Looks to the PAST, NATURE, PASTORAL, focus on VOLK England. Anti-enlightenment. Worshipped imagination. |
| NEGATIVE CAPABILITY...WHO WAS A PROPONENT OF THIS? | A Romantic contradiction...man is capable of not-knowing/not caring; being OK w/ uncertainty w/o reaching for fact. KEATS!! Opposite of logical reasoning |
| KEATS = "ULTIMATE ROMANTIC POET"...WHY? | GAVE UP EVERYTHING: MED SCHOOL, MARRIAGE FOR POETRY. DISCUSSED DEATH, DYING. |
| La Belle Dame Sans Merci VS. Keats’ other poems | NOT A LYRIC POEM. USES PERSONA. |
| DICKINSON A ROMANTIC POET...WHY? | DEATH/NATURE THEMES. SPEAKS FROM INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE, PERSPECTIVE. |
| DICKINSON DIFFERENT FROM HER FAMILY...HOW? | WAS NOT A BORN-AGAIN CALVANIST. |
| WHICH ROMANTIC POETS WERE LYRIC POETS? WHY?(3) | WORDSWORTH/KEATS/DICKENSON. SPOKE RE: PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, BUT NOT ALL ARE LYRIC POEMS (SEE KEATS #10) |
| WHICH POETS WEAR MASKS/AREN'T LYRIC POETS? WHY? | BLAKE, RAMBAUD |
| HEART OF DARKNESS = PROBLEMATIC...WHY? | ANTI-IMPERIALISM, BUT ALSO RACIST. CRITICIZES BUT ALSO PARTICIPATES. |
| IMPERIALISM | COMBINATION OF COMMERCIAL INTERESTS AND MILITARY POWER WORKING TOGETHER IN A COONIZED COUNTRY FOR MONETARY GAIN. |
| Bureaucratization of Evil | STATE-SANCTIONED EVIL, DISCUSSED IN ADMINISTRATIVE/OFFICE MANAGER-TYPE WAY. DETACHED DISCUSSION OF OPPRESSION. JUSTIFICATION. |
| WHY WAS THE COMPANY CRITICAL OF KURTZ? | STOPPED BEING PROFITABLE. |
| EXPLAIN HD STRUCTURE | FRAMED STORY. NARRATOR TELLS MARLOW'S STORY, MARLOW TELLS NARRATOR HIS KURTZ/CONGO STORY. |
| Marlow AND MAPS | BLANK SPACES...FREE OF CIVILIZED RULES -- ONLY B/C EUROPEANS DIDN'T RECOGNIZE AFRICAN CIVILIZATION. |
| KURTZ = SYMBOLIC OF WHAT, IN A WIDER SENSE? | EUROPE. SELF INTEREST. IMPERIALISM. |
| "White Man’s Burden" an excuse for Colonialism...HOW? | "NEED" TO BRING "CIVILIZATION" TO PEOPLE W/O IT, TO THE "DARK" PLACES IN AFRICA. . .BUT AGAIN, ONLY B/C EUROPEANS DIDN'T SEE AFRICA AS CIVILIZED. |
| KURTZ: "THE HORROR" | HE "LEFT EUROPE" FOR CONGO CULTURE. MARLOW THOUGHT HE WAS EXPRESSING REMORSE FOR HIS ACTIONS |
| MAROLOW ADMIRES KURTZ...WHY? | 1. HE THOUGHT JURTZ WAS REMORSEFUL ON HIS DEATH BED 2. FOR BELIEVING IN SOMETHING3. KURTZ'S INNATE LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS |
| MARLOW ABSOLUTELY HATES...WHAT? WHY IS THIS IRONIC AT THE END? | LIARS!!! BUT YET, HE LIES TO KURTZ'S INTENDED ABOUT WHAT HIS LAST WORDS WERE. HE TOLD HER HER NAME WAS LAST ON HIS LIPS. THIS PLAYS INTO #26...WOMEN ARE PORTRAYED AS SHELTERED/NEEDED TO BE PROTECTED FROM THE UGLIES OF THE WORLD. |
| WOMEN IN HD | SHELTERED, OUT OF TOUCH, NAIVE. SEXIST!!! |
| ACHEBE RE: Conrad’s depiction of the language of the people of the Congo | 1. "ANIMAL BABBLINGS," DID NOT RECOGNIZE NATIVE'S SPEECH AS A LANGUAGE.2. ONLY SHOWS CONGO NATIVES SPEAKING 2X: 1) KURTZ'S DEATH, 2) RE: CANNIBALISM |
| TOLSTOY UNIQUE CHRISTIAN BELIEFS | REJECTED RELIGION'S MYSTICAL ELEMENTS - DIDN'T BELIEV IN AFTERLIFE.BELIEVED IN BARE-BONES CHRISTIANITY, AND WAS EXCOMMUNICATED FOR ANTI-ROYALIST WRITINGSADVOCATED CELIBACY WITHIN MARRIAGE |
| Hadji Murad classic literary hero...HOW? | CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO TYRANTS, FORGES OWN WOLD HAS COURAGE, TOLERANCE,UNDERSTANDING,LOYALTY,PHYS. BILITIES,DRIVE,POLITICALLY SAVVY. STUCK BTWN ROCK AND HARD PLACE DIDN'T SURRENDER WHEN FACING CERTAIN DEATH LIKE ODYSSEUS-WANTED TO SEE FAMILY, BUT COULDN'T. |
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