0527-Week14
- Lyric poetry
Lyric poetry is a form of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. The term derives from a form of Ancient Greek literature, the lyric, which was defined by its musical accompaniment, usually on a stringed instrument known as a lyre. - Narrative poetry
Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metred verse. Narrative poems do not have to follow rhythmic patterns. The poems that make up this genre may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be complex. It is usually dramatic, with objectives, diverse characters, and metre. - elegy
(1) since the Renaissance, usually a formal lament on the death of a particular person, but focusing mainly on the speaker’s efforts to come to terms with his or her grief; (2) more broadly, any lyric in sorrowful mood that takes death as its primary subject. An example is W. H. Auden's "Stop all the clocks." - gothic fiction
a subgenre of fiction conventionally featuring plots that involve secrets, mystery, and the supernatural (or the seemingly supernatural) and large, gloomy, and usually antiquated (especially medieval) houses as settings. Examples include William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily."
History of literature
reason
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1. classical period
2. the Medieval 3. the Renaissance (post classicism) 4. Neoclassical period 5. Romantic period (post Renaissance) 6. Victorian period 7. Modernism 8. Postmodernism |
- Doubting Thomas
A doubting Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience—a reference to the Apostle Thomas, who refused to believe that the resurrected Jesus had appeared to the ten other apostles, until he could see and feel the wounds received by Jesus on the cross.
Romantic period
Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. It was partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific rationalization of nature.
- 3 features of Romanticism: individualistic, emotional, humanistic
- representative poets: William Wordsworth, John Keats
Modernism
Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
→rebuilt the order within the artistic innovation
→rebuilt the order within the artistic innovation
- representative poets: W. H. Auden, E. E. Cummings, William Faulkner, W. B. Yeats
- W. B. Yeats' "Leda and the Swan"→analysis
→using ancientry to satirize the present - examples of metamorphosis:
1. Danaë and golden shower
In Greek mythology, Danaë was a daughter of King Acrisius of Argos and his wife Queen Eurydice. She was the mother of the hero Perseus by Zeus.
2. The Abduction of Europa
In Greek mythology Europa was a Phoenician woman of high lineage, for whom the continent Europe was named. The story of her abduction by Zeus in the form of a white bull was a Cretan story.
3. Io
In Greek mythology,Io was a priestess of Hera in Argos, a mortal who was seduced by Zeus, who changed her into a heifer to escape detection from his jealous wife, Hera. - W. B. Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"→analysis
- E. E. Cummings' "In Just"
- Dionysus
Dionysus, also known as Bacchus, is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy in Greek mythology. Alcohol, especially wine, played an important role in Greek culture with Dionysus being an important reason for this life style. The bull, serpent, ivy, and wine are characteristic of Dionysian atmosphere. Dionysus is also strongly associated with satyrs, centaurs, and sileni.
Syllables
- lament
Meaning1: (n.) a passionate expression of grief or sorrow.
Meaning2: (v.) mourn (a person's loss or death). - meta-→change
- morph-→shape, form
metamorphosis (n.)
Meaning: (in an insect or amphibian) the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages. - magn-→great