PY - W3-W5 Flashcards
motions of mind and soul
- Circular motion
- heaven in a relationship which pairs the microcosm with the macrocosm.
Anaphora
Starting lines w/ same elements
Enjambement
Runs over, no punctuation
Assonance
repetition of vowel sounds
Slows down rythm
Hypermeter
Greater number of syllables w/ verse longer
Chiasmus
A, B xxxx B, A
conceit
Big analogy
Ubisunt
Where are they,
Indicate Nostalgia
Hymn
Religious
Single-Voiced
Narrative Poem
Repetition of the refrain
Repetition of Refrain
Ballad
Ballad (Meter)
iAmbic meter
Romantic era
Sexual and divine imagery
Geographic/ Cartographic analogies
Metaphysical
Sibilance
Sss ss ssss
Dark Satanic Mills
Centre of insudstrial revolution
Sermon Speech
Homiletic
wyrd
fate
virtue of locking-in one’s thoughts
Internal reflection
speaker is deprived of homeland and his lord
loss of comitatus
where is X, where is Y, where comes now Z ?
ubi sunt theme
Sonnet (ethimology)
Italian Sonnetto
- - Little sound
Sonnet (General definition)
- fourteen-line poem
- set structure of rhyme and meter (usu IP in EN)
- Formal composition (Technical Skill + Well-considered Content)
sonnet into an octet and a sestet (SONNET)
PETRARCHAN or ITALIAN
(8+6)
Sir Philip Sidney
PETRARCHAN or ITALIAN (SONNET)
- octet and a sestet (8+6 = 14)
- introduction of a problem, expansion and resolution.
- Octet + turn (volta)-seset
SHAKESPEREAN or ENGLISH (sonnet)
- three quatrains and a closing couplet.
- Shakespear (rhyming couplet w/ special sign., oft. sardonic or profound)
Shakespeare (Sonnet)
- Rhyming couplet with special significance, often sardonic or profound.
- Sonnet-cycle to two people:
- Fair Youth
- Older, Dark Lady.
- provides contrast across sex, age, and temper.
A Lyric (Historically)
poem sung to the accompaniment of a lyre
A Lyric
- short poem
- 10 to 40 lines,
- feelings and thoughts single speaker
- personal and subjective fashion.
Lyric poetry comprises
- all songs
- ballads
- lays
- odes
- hymns
Hymns
Religious Songs
Religious Poets (recognized for) Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Vaughan, and Trehearne
- more sophisticated
- intense poetry
- elements erotic passion + religious submission
- Metaphysical poets (figural complexity + Paired themes body/sou god/manl)
Poetic Meter
Technical measur of poems rythm
- Number of Syllables
- Recuring Pettern of Stress
Old English (Primary Stress)
On the Alliterating syllables
Modern English Poetry (Lines)
Lines - Feet (syllabic units)
Foot - un/stress syllables
Familiar Modern English poetry - 5 PATTERNS
Unstressed ( – )
Stressed (/)
Iamb – /
Trochee / –
Anapest – – /
Dactyl / – –
Spondee / /
Poems Meter Named (+ e.g.)
1) Pattern of Stress
2) Number of feet
e. g. Iambic Tetrameter
Staple line of English poetry
Iambic pentameter (closest to natural speaking rythm)
Verse favoured by dramatists
Unrhymed Blank Versed
motions of mind and soul
- Circular motion
- heaven in a relationship which pairs the microcosm with the macrocosm.