Poetry Context Flashcards
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Love/beauty: She walks in beauty
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- ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’
- Leading figure in Romantic movement
- Many love affairs (men too and apparently half sister)
- Politician
2
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To my dear and loving husband: Love
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- Well educated for her era
- Originally from Britain but moved to North America
- Puritan
- Wrote feminine stuff like motherhood and marriage
3
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Greeny nature: To Autumn
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- Main figure in second generation of Romantic poets
- Lots of sensual imagery, odes
- Progressive school
- Suffered depression as wanted to be a poet but financial problems, also only seen as good poet 4 years before death
4
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Place: Spellbound
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- Wrote Wuthering Heights
- Sent to clergy girls school where suffered abuse
- Not much education but read a lot
- Solidarity and reclusive nature
5
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Composed upon- Place
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- Helped launch Romantic age
- Fell in love with french woman but tensions with france meant he had to go back to england after a year
6
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The Kraken
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- Post romantic era
- Pantheism and agnostic views
- Different view of nature
7
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On his blindness: John Milton
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- Greatest poet of his time
- Used to be able to see-got daughters to write poems
- Highly religious
- Passion for freedom and self-determination
8
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Satirical elegy- Jonathon Swift
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- Avoids slander
- Real duke who died in 1720’s
- Wrote Gullivers travels
- Satirist
9
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Kubla Khan
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- Romantic poem
- Opium induced vision
- Thought to be bipolar
- Addicted to opium due to medical illness
10
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Song
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- Often wrote devotional and romantic poems
- Was deeply interested in anglo-catholic movement
- Rejected 3 marriage proposals due to religion
11
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Picture of little T.C
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- Metaphysical poet
- Neo-platonic
- Description of seeing her in garden
- Politician
