Imitation of Spencer Flashcards
1
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Form
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Spenserian rhyme scheme (ABABBCBCC)
2
Q
Pastoral Images
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Pastoral images deal with countryside /nature.
3
Q
Personification
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Personification of the sun rising ‘And her first footsteps touched a verdant hill’.
4
Q
Warm Imagery
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Warm imagery throughout – sematic field of preciousness/ richness.
5
Q
Descriptive gorgeousness
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An exercise in descriptive gorgeousness that opens, appropriately enough, with a Spenserian sunrise.
‘Bright/brilliant/golden/ruby/sparkled’.
6
Q
Richness
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Keats was intoxicated by Spenser’s linguistic richness, his eye for sensuous detail, his capacity to create dream like visions and Cowden Clark wrote that Spenser was central to Keats poetic development.
