James Lowell Flashcards
What do lowells poems have?
Genial, humorous, and satirical elevation of 3 contemporary poets
T/F Lowell was the first American poet to make a living primarily off of poetry.
False
Corrective redicule in literature or a work that is designed to correct an evil by means of redicule
Satire
Marked by sympathy or friendliness
Genial
What was Lowell?
A well known critic and was not upset when people critiqued him
What was he also?
An avid poetic spokesman for various reforms in the 19th century
What is the tone for a fable of critics?
Satirical and genial
What does Lowell use in fable for critics?
Couplets
What does he admit in a fable for critics?
His poetry is hindered by a overemphasis on advicating his own beliefs
In line 39 “you mustn’t fling mud balls at Longfellow so”.
This is lowells answer to Poe’s criticism of Longfellow
In the courtin what does the speaker editorialize?
The coyness of women
What is the poem (the courtin)?
Non satirical poems he wrote
What is significant in this poem?
The New England dialect
Line 49 “that night, I ye, she looked some”
Looked some means she was very attractive
In the lesson what is the poem about?
Pride
this poem (the lesson) is not anthologized very often in secular collections
Because of its clear moral emphasis on God’s superiority to man
Line 4 ‘’ the thunder wallowed to and fro’’
Shows personification on the thunder in that it wallowed
Lines 15-16 what does it give?
Power of speech to a firefly
Lines 26-27 ‘’ God but a bigger kind of me”
This refers to how men tends to try and make God a bigger kind of me
