Final Exam Flashcards
Robert Browning
May 7, 1812; England
Porphyria’s Lover
The speaker of the poem strangles his lover with her own hair, then speaks to her corpse all night; Robert Browning
My Last Duchess
Robert Browning speaks of The Duke who had his duchess killed due to her alleged unfaithfulness
Fra Lippo Lippi
Lippo is torn between the life within the church and the corruptness of his surroundings; Robert browning
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
He has not yet been knighted, and goes on a journey to find the tower, once he finds it he sounds his horn and knows his journey and life have met their end; Robert Browning
Andrea del Sarto
Robert Browning writes of a painter who compares their work to that of great artists, but is disappointed that his is not a powerful
Dante Rossetti
May 17, 1828
The Blessed Damozel
Rosetti writes of his lover going into the light, or dying
The Woodspurge
Rosetti writes of a man sitting in a field with his head between his knees, feeling depressed
The House of Life: Silent Noon
Rosetti writes of himself and his lover within a happy moment, that he wishes to dwell on
William Morris
March 28, 1834
Hay Stack in the Flood
Morris writes of a woman and her lover, who once returned to Paris will face death.
How I Became a Socialist
Morris writes of the reasons that he fell to socialism
Walter Pater
August 4, 1839
Leonardo da Vinci Conclusion
Pater speaks of da Vinci’s life as a painter
the Conclusion
the love of art is the center of most topics; Pater
Oscar Wilde
October 16, 1854; arrested for being gay
Joseph Conrad
December 3, 1857
Heart of Darkness
Conrad writes of the Nellie sailing up the congo to discover the mistreatment of the natives
William Yeats
June 13, 1865
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Yeats describes the peace within solitude that he will have in the cablin he plans to build
The Wild Swans at Coole
Yeats dotes over a flock of swans to wake up one morning to find them gone
The Second Coming
Yeats describes a supposed apocalypse; very violent and descriptive
Sailing to Byzantium
Journey to Byzantium where Yeats wishes to become a golden bird and escape nature
Byzantium
Yeats reaches Byzantium finally, and becomes the bird he wishes about in Sailing to Byzantium
Leda and the Swan
Yeats writes of a woman being raped by a swan
Among School Children
Yeats writes of the benefits of more mature children
Virginia Wolfe
January 25, 1882
The Legacy
Characters in Woolf’s piece- Sissy Miller, Maid, Gilbert Clandon
TS Eliot
September 26, 1888
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
Eliot writes about a woman he wishes to have relations with, but in the end of the poem never reveals his feelings
The Waste Land
Eliot notates 5 sections, dealing with despair and meaningless; important to 20th century writing
James Joyce
February 2, 1882
Araby
Joyce writes of a boy who is infatuated with a girl, he goes the the bazaar to get her a gift, but everything is too expensive. he realizes in the end that his infatuation is absurd and doesn’t tell her
The Dead
Lily, Gabriel, Conroy…Joyce writes of Gabriel as a man of responsibility and importance while exploring life and death.
