Final Exam Flashcards
Ulysess
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wrote it after the death of his best friend
Dramatic Monologue
1) personal loss 2) Victorian commitment to work and progress 3) the spirit of imperialism
Without Benefit of Clergy
Rudyard Kipling
Anglo-India: white British people living in and governing India
John Holden’s double life as a bachelor with a secret muslim family. When the family is destroyed so is he and the house. It’s like it never existed.
“I saw the sunset ere’ men saw the day”
Without Benefit of Clergy by Rudyard Kipling. He knew and lost love and fatherhood too early in his life.
“Who am too wise in all I should not know”
Without Benefit of Clergy by Rudyard Kipling
Because his life crossed religious and racial barriers, he has to keep all his sorrow hidden like nothing happened.
“It little profits an idle king”
Ulysess by Alfred Lord Tennyson
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy’d
Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when
Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea: I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson
This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle,—
Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold
Society is material and corrupt
Look to the past for timeless ideas
The world seems beautiful but without faith it’s sad and dreary and fake
“And we are here as on a dark king plain, swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night”
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
“Ah, Love, let us be true to one another!”
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Gods Grandeur
Gerard Hopkins
Opposite attitude of Matthew Arnold
Very religious, argues that no one listens to God anymore.
Written like a tongue twister almost
The Soldier
Rupert Brooke
1st published war poet
I am England and England is everything
They
Siegfried Sassoon
Opposite of Brooke
Individual pain and value
And the Bishop said: ‘The ways of God are strange!
They by Siegfried Sassoon
‘On Anti-Christ; their comrades’ blood has bought
‘New right to breed an honourable race,
‘They have challenged Death and dared him face to face.’
They by Siegfried Sassoon
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England
The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given
The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
What are the five modernist concerns?
1) crisis of subject
2) new theories of meaning
3) opposition to rational and realist discourse
4) deconstruction if boundaries
5) freedom of the literary form
Define literary epiphany
Sudden spiritual manifestation which is out of proportion to the trivial occurrence which brought it on.
Araby
James Joyce
Energy in youth and death/material possessions from previous generation
Everything seems good on the surface but is tainted ex. The priest
Religion is dying
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Set pre and post WW1, eulogy to her parents.
Stream of consciousness.
September 1, 1939
W.H. Auden
The Second Coming
Yeats
