literature Flashcards
the ABC of reading (1934)
Ezra Pound
“literature is news that stays news”
Ezra Pound
Robert’s frost theory and practice of poetry (1967)
Robert Frost
“A performance in words”
Robert Frost
the tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
“… so important that one cannot bear to let it pass into oblivion”
Murasaki Shikibu
7 elements of Masterpiece
Universality
permanence
artistry
suggestiveness
intellectual value
spiritual value
style (uniqueness)
the idea that something about the book touches the human spirit, evokes emotion, or makes a personal connection through human relationships
UNIVERSALITY
Literature endures across time and draws out the time factor: timeliness and timelessness
PERMANENCE
Literature has an aesthetic appeal and thus possesses a sense of beauty
ARTISTRY
unravel man’s emotional power to define symbolism, nuances, implied meanings, images and messages, giving and evoking visions above and beyond.
SUGGESTIVENESS
It stimulates critical thinking that enriches mental processes of abstract and reasoning.
INTELLECTUAL VALUE
literature elevates the spirit and the soul, thus has the power to motivate and inspire
SPIRITUAL VALUE
presents peculiar ways on how man sees life as evidence by the formation of idea, form, structures, and expressions
STYLE
rhythmic imaginative language expressing invention, thought, imagination, taste, passion, and insight of the human soul
POETRY
its purpose is enthrallment
POETRY
preface to the lyrical ballads(1798)
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
“the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
so called ordinary writing
PROSE
made up of sentence and paragraphs, without any metrical structure
PROSE
connotes spoken or written discourse that is not patterned into metric or free verse
PROSE
on becoming a writer (1948)
VERA BRITTAIN
“… is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eye”
VERA BRITTAIN
may or may not use rhyme
POETRY
