Chosen Poems Critical Quotes Flashcards
Langbaum
[My Last Duchess, Browning]
‘the effect created by the tension between sympathy and moral judgement’
Kennedy
[Daddy, Plath]
Ambivalence; internal/external
‘harsh ambivalence’ of Plath is her ‘most important contribution’ - ‘enlarges’ the scope of the elegy
Heightens both ‘outwardly directed anger’ and ‘inward manifestation’ of grief
Tension between reliance on ‘discourse of father’ and desire to reject it - ‘to annihilate him, she must annihilate herself’
Kennedy
[The Art of Losing, Bishop]
Triviality of the objects lost, but collectively have meaning that ‘living equals losing’
Hoffman
[Ode to a Grecian Urn, Keats]
Featuring and addressing the ode is an attempt to ‘transcend the sphere of communication’
Inferiority of aural to visual mimesis - aural ‘tends to fall back into a continuum of sound and noise’
Gerrard
[Essay on Criticism, Pope]
‘his growing alienation from court and ministry inspired an extraordinary body of satirical verse’
Rawson
[Pope]
‘as the expected mode for serious poetry, the couplet signalled ambition and seriousness…promised the basis for systematic consideration of important issues’
Hunter
[Pope]
‘always accessible…ease and friendliness with which it approaches complexity’
Dobyns
[Pope]
His form reflects belief in ‘order of the universe….a clear set of principles and virtues. This is the Age of Reason and the heroic couplet is the microcosmic model of that age’
Fuller
[Milton, Methought I Saw…]
Development in that he makes the ‘personal’ as important as the ‘public’ - ‘autobiographical nature’
Margerum
[Bradstreet, The Author to her Book]
Based on Puritannical traditions using ‘formulae for humility’ - not necessarily genuine; ‘deals with correcting the poems, not condemning their creator’
Steiner
[Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book]
‘poetry of communication…poetry as essentially self-expression’
Rich
{Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book]
Implores readers to search for ‘the stress-marks of anger’ in Bradstreet’s poetry
Empson
[Marvell, The Garden]
‘Far-Eastern’ philosophical orientation - ‘either contemplating everything, or shutting everything out’
‘The chief point of the poem is to contrast and reconcile conscious and unconscious states, intuitive and intellectual modes of apprehension; and yet that distinction is never made’
Bernard
[Marvell, The Garden]
Pastoral hero as ‘Self-deluded artist figure’
Friedman
[Marvell, The Garden]
‘Does not judge, but selects and present the materials necessary for judgement’
