Poets And More Flashcards
who is John milton
Author of “paradise lost”
Used blank verse in his epics
Strong supporter of common wealth and Oliver Cromwell
Lyric
Short poem, concentrated expression
Invocation
Literary convention where a poet implores god for assistance
Conceit
Like a simile or metaphor
But conceit is the strangeness of the comparison
Sonnet
14 line lyrical fixed form
Typically in iambic pentameter
Couplet
Two lines of rhyme
Edmund Spenser
Author of “the faerie queene”
-full of allegory
Invented Spenserian stanza
“Poet’s poet”
Blazon
Poet uses metaphor and simile and hyperbole to describe the parts of his or her lovers body
Allegory
Referencing people or things as physical beings referring to a second order of idea
Spenserian stanza
Right iambic pentameters and an iambic hexameter in end-rhyme
ABABBCBCC
An iambic hexameter is also called alexandrine
Romantic poets
William Wordsworth
S.t. Coleridge
Robert Southey, William Blake
The second generation
P.B. Shelley, John Keats
Lord Byron
Percy bysshe shelley
2nd gen. Romantic poet with radical political beliefs
1819 Shelly wrote the mask of anarchy
Husband of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein
Elegy
Poem mourning the dead
Geoffrey Chaucer
Set style for Middle English literature
Blended french, Italian, and classical influences into English literature
“Father of English poetry”
Romance
12th to 16th century, main form of European narrative, was chivalric story.
Knights tale
Sir Gawain and the green knight
Lord Byron
One of the most widely read English romantic poets
Author of Don Juan, childe harolds pilgrimage
“Byronic hero”
Life full of sex scandals
John Keats
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”
Christina Rosetti
Leading female poet of Victorian era
Author of Christmas poems and children’s verse
Thomas hardy
Known for powerful novels about human nature
Poems deal with isolated figures and disappointment in love and life
Goblin market
Set: fairy tale world
Explored themes of temptation, sacrifice, salvation. Evil goblin merchants and sisters
T.S. Eliot
Poet, playwright, critic, publisher
Author of “The waste land”
Novel prize in literature in 1948
Impersonality
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
Henri Bergson
Bergson claims incidents seem to be “discontinuous” but they stand out against the continuity of a background on which they are designed…
William Shakespeare poems
Hamlet
To be or not to be
WS Poem
Sonnet 1
From fairest creatures
Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage
Sonnet 133
Beshrew that heart
Faerie queen
Edmond Spenser
Patron of true holiness
A gentle knight
Chaucer
Canterbury tales
Sir Gawain and the green night
Whan that April
Soon as the siege and assault had ceased at Troy
John Keats poems
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
