ap lit literary movements

Question 1

• 17th century england breaking with earlier renaissance ideas about romantic poetry
• meditation on love, death, God, and human frailty
• canonically obscure
• wit, irony, paradox&raquo_space;
• embellished conceits, rhymes
• use of line length, stanza shape, rhyme, repetition
• deep philosophical issues- uneasy relationship between humans, each other, and God/fear & obsession in human nature

Answer 1

Metaphysical Poetry

Question 2

• rhymed, heroic-couplet satire
• use of iambic pentameter
• wit, irony, paradox, brevity (concise brief use of words)
• emphasis on human fraility
• current events in the poems (allegorically or directly)

Answer 2

Augustan Poetry

Question 3

• written in the language of men about common life
• breaks from neoclassical ideas previously in poetry
• natural imagery
• the sublime
• human imagination empowers individual to escape from society’s structure, established authority, fear of death
• goal: achieve transcendence

Answer 3

Romantic Poetry

Question 4

• link between romanticism and modernism
• yearning for transcendence in a decadent/sensual manner
• sensual frankness
  synaethesia- use of one sense to describe another
• dreaming allows humans to explore relationship between conscious and unconscious state

Answer 4

Symbolist Poetry

Question 5

• questioning what came before (like how people questioned time, space, and our connection to it)
• old topics revamped with modernism
• poetry should be valuable and understandable
• many allusions
• try to see the world from as many povs as possible
• sometimes focus on inanimate objects, not human beings

Answer 5

Modernist Poetry

Question 6

• directly related to african american relations
• repetitive structure

Answer 6

Harlem Renaissance Poetry

Question 7

• parody, irony, narrative instability in tone
• Allusions made to popular culture
• no strict binary concepts ex. black & white
• no real center
• surface more interesting than depth

Answer 7

Postmodernism Poetry

Question 8

• associated with black power movement
• politically charged, unapologetic challenging to white institutions

Answer 8

Black Arts movement

Question 9

various from poet
Olson- lengthy, political
Creeley- short, historical/looks into archaeology

Answer 9

Black Mountain Poets

Question 10

• aesthetic mode w/beat spontaneity and confessional-poet frankness
• ironic, more emphasis in surrealism with high art and popular art allusion
• wanted to help readers see the world in new, different ways
• surrealists juxtapose uncommon objects

Answer 10

ny school of poets

Question 11

• use of personal pronouns, explore intimate content
• love affairs, suicidal thoughts, fear of failure, ambivalent/violent thoughts about family
• autobiographical sensitive material
• no facade of comfortable suburban life, emphasis on doubt and anxiety

Answer 11

confessional poetry

Question 12

• hallucinogenic, visionary, anti establishment
• inopposition of the suburban bourgeoisie
• satirical
• some was angry, ranting writing
• “first thought, best thought”

Answer 12

the beats