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AP Exam Flashcards - Movements

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Metaphysical Poetry (late 1500s - late 1600s)

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  • break from Renaissance ideas
  • highlight of realistic ideas through obscure references
  • true, though cliched, ideas on love, death, God, and human frailty
  • wit, irony, paradox to mask deeper statements
  • comparisons used across scales (universality); e.g. worms to cosmos
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Donne; Herbert; Marvell

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Metaphysical poets

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Augustans

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  • rhymed, heroic-couplet satire
  • humor, comic effects
  • iambic pentameter
  • wit, irony, paradox; brevity in expressing ideas
  • focus on human frailty
  • current events, debates, etc. usually included
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Dryden; Pope; Swift; Gay; “Gulliver’s Travels”; “A Beggar’s Opera”

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Augustan poets and prose

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Romanticism

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  • break from neoclassic ideas
  • focus on common life, instead of myths and Greek/Roman ideas
  • emotional
  • focus on natural imagery and its relationship to imagination; BIG themes
  • freedom from social limits, authority, fear of death
  • focus on scale and sublime (impressively large, obscure, scary)
  • ordinary transcendence
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Wordsworth; Shelley; Keats; Blake; Emerson; Whitman; “Les Miserables”; “The Scarlet Letter”

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Romantic poets and prose

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Symbolists

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  • between romanticism and modernism; yearning for transcendence in the form of frankness
  • symbols
  • focus on crepuscular, dream states
  • use of synaesthesia to highlight different sense
  • words with multiple meanings
  • focus on aesthetics, form, similarities to music rather than political comments
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Baudelaire; Mallarme; Verlaine; Rimbaud; Wilde; Yeats; Symons; Eliot

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Symbolists

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Modernism

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  • twist of old topics through modern lenses
  • allusions to highlight fragments of the human experience (component parts)
  • focus on relationship between the individual and the environment; images through multiple points of view
  • machines, inanimacy rather than humans
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Stevens; Carlos Williams; H.D.; Moore; Eliot; cummings; Pound; “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”; “Heart of Darkness”

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Modernist poets and prose

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The Harlem Renaissance

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  • takes place during Great Migration
  • focus on contemporary African American issues
  • musical; could be repetitive (like blues) or fragmented (jazz) segments
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Dunbar; McKay; Hughes; Cullen; “Their Eyes Were Watching God”; “Invisible Man”

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Harlem Renaissance poets and prose

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Postmodernism

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  • rejected by its artists
  • characterized by subgroups (Beats, confessionals, New York School, Black Arts, Black Mountain)
  • parody, irony, instability
  • challenge of binaries and concretes
  • allusions to both popular culture and classical ideas
  • focus on the surface, rather than depth/center of ideas
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Beats/Beatniks

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  • hallucinogenic, visionary, anti-establishment art forms
  • freedom of imagination, transcendence, individuality
  • some integration of Buddhist ideals
  • “first thought, best thought”
  • politically informed
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Ferlinghetti; Ginsberg; Corso; Snyder; Kerouac

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Beat poets and authors

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Confessional movement

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  • intimate, personal content
  • “ripping off the facade”
  • doubts, anxieties, mental illness
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Berryman; Lowell; Sexton; Plath; “The Bell Jar”

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Confessional poets and prose

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New York School

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  • spontaneity, frankness, allusions to popular arts and culture
  • juxtaposition of uncommon objects
  • matching of serious with silly, formal with casual, profound with absurd
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Guest; Koch; O’Hara; Ashberry

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New York School poets

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Black Arts Movement

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  • formed from Black Power movement, frustration with slow pace of civil rights advocacy
  • politically charged, militant, perseverant challenges to white society
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Brooks; Baraka (LeRoi Jones); Sanchez; Shange

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Black Arts Movement poets

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Black Mountain

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  • process over product
  • taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina
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Olson; Levertov; Creeley

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Black Mountain poets

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Emily Dickinson

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  • isolation during transcendental period
  • wit, irony similar to metaphysical poets
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Robert Frost

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  • active during modernism, usually more concerned with traditional verse forms and customs
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W. H. Auden

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  • wrote both before and after WWII
  • similar to modernists but transcendent of most labels
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Elizabeth Bishop

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  • sometimes grouped with confessionals, but more reticent with her own emotions
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Adrienne Rich

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  • feminist and political poet advocating for women of the past/present
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Seamus Heaney

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  • rural imagery as vehicle for issues of identity
  • Irish heritage, confusion of being a poet

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