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Poets And More Flashcards

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who is John milton

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Author of “paradise lost”

Used blank verse in his epics

Strong supporter of common wealth and Oliver Cromwell

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Lyric

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Short poem, concentrated expression

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Invocation

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Literary convention where a poet implores god for assistance

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Conceit

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Like a simile or metaphor

But conceit is the strangeness of the comparison

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Sonnet

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14 line lyrical fixed form

Typically in iambic pentameter

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Couplet

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Two lines of rhyme

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Edmund Spenser

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Author of “the faerie queene”
-full of allegory

Invented Spenserian stanza

“Poet’s poet”

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Blazon

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Poet uses metaphor and simile and hyperbole to describe the parts of his or her lovers body

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Allegory

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Referencing people or things as physical beings referring to a second order of idea

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Spenserian stanza

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Right iambic pentameters and an iambic hexameter in end-rhyme
ABABBCBCC

An iambic hexameter is also called alexandrine

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Romantic poets

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William Wordsworth
S.t. Coleridge
Robert Southey, William Blake

The second generation
P.B. Shelley, John Keats
Lord Byron

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Percy bysshe shelley

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2nd gen. Romantic poet with radical political beliefs

1819 Shelly wrote the mask of anarchy

Husband of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein

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Elegy

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Poem mourning the dead

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Set style for Middle English literature

Blended french, Italian, and classical influences into English literature

“Father of English poetry”

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Romance

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12th to 16th century, main form of European narrative, was chivalric story.

Knights tale
Sir Gawain and the green knight

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Lord Byron

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One of the most widely read English romantic poets

Author of Don Juan, childe harolds pilgrimage

“Byronic hero”

Life full of sex scandals

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John Keats

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2nd gen. Romantic poet

Lover of beauty
“Beauty is truth, truth is beauty”

Father died when he was 8

Died at 25

“I think I shall be among the English poets after my death”

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Christina Rosetti

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Leading female poet of Victorian era

Author of Christmas poems and children’s verse

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Thomas hardy

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Known for powerful novels about human nature

Poems deal with isolated figures and disappointment in love and life

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Goblin market

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Set: fairy tale world

Explored themes of temptation, sacrifice, salvation. Evil goblin merchants and sisters

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T.S. Eliot

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Poet, playwright, critic, publisher

Author of “The waste land”

Novel prize in literature in 1948

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Impersonality

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T.S. Eliot

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Henri Bergson

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Bergson claims incidents seem to be “discontinuous” but they stand out against the continuity of a background on which they are designed…

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William Shakespeare poems

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Hamlet

To be or not to be

25
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WS Poem

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Sonnet 1

From fairest creatures

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Sonnet 116

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Let me not to the marriage

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Sonnet 133

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Beshrew that heart

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Faerie queen

Edmond Spenser

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Patron of true holiness

A gentle knight

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Chaucer

Canterbury tales

Sir Gawain and the green night

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Whan that April

Soon as the siege and assault had ceased at Troy

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John Keats poems

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Bright star
-bright star
La belle dame sans merci
-knight at arms
To autumn
-season of mists and mellow fruitfulness 
Ode to a nightingale
-my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains

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