test 2 wl2 Flashcards
stanza
subdivision of a poem; typically follows a fixed pattern of meter and rhyme
aubade
A short piece of poetry about the coming of dawn, often meant to be sung outdoors.
lyric
(of poetry) expressing the writer’s emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.
elegy
A lyric poem that laments the dead.
apostrophe
the act of addressing an abstraction or personification that is not physically present
pathetic fallacy
A type of personification that applies emotions to nature or inanimate objects. The emotions given often reflect those of the speaker.
free verse
Poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses rather than the artificial constraints of metrical feet.
assonance
Repetition of identical or similar vowels (especially in stressed syllabes) in nearby words.
consonance
Repetition of two or more consonants.
ballad
a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditionally are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture.
run-on line/ Enjambment
A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. An enjambed line differs from an end-stopped line in which the grammatical and logical sense is completed within the line. In the opening lines of Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess,” for example, the first line is end-stopped and the second enjambed
end-stopped line
occurs when a line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark, such as a colon. When lines are end-stopped, each line is its own phrase or unit of syntax.
verse
writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme.
allusion
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
lyric poetry
Short and musical
Expresses thoughts, feelings and perceptions of one speaker in an intensely personal way (subjective)
Captures a “moment” rather than telling a story
“Ah, death is like a long cool night / And life is like the sultry day.” (1-2)
“Over my bed there’s a tree that gleams—-/ Young nightingales are singing there,” (5-6)
“[Ah, Death is like a long cool night]”
Heinrich Heine
“He sleeps; a bright white blanket / Enshrouds him in ice and snow.” (3-4)
“[A pine is standing lonely]”
Heinrich Heine
“It is so old a story, / Yet somehow always new; And he that has just lived it, / It breaks his heart in two.” (9-12)
“[A Young Man Loves a Maiden]”
Heinrich Heine
“We’re weaving, we’re weaving” (5)
“We waited and hope, in vain persevered” (8)
“A curse on the king of the rich man’s nation / Who hardens his heart at our supplication” (11-12)
“A curse on this false fatherland” (16)
“The Silesian Weavers”
Heinrich Heine
“In this immensity my thought is drowned: / And sweet to me the foundering in this sea.” (13-14)
“The Infinite”
Giacomo Leopardi
“This life is bitterness / And vacuum, nothing else. The world is mud.” (9-10)
“Despair for the last time. The only gift / Fate gave our kind was death.—-” (12-13)
“To Himself”
Giacomo Leopardi
“No human tongue can tell / What I felt then within my brimming heart.” (25-26)
“O Nature, Nature, why / Do you not keep the promises you gave? / Why trick the children so?” (33-35)
“—My poor one, when / The truth rose up, you fell, / And from afar pointed me the way / To coldest death and the stark sepulchre.” (52-55)
“To Sylvia”
Giacomo Leopardi
“Of all the seven days this is the one / Most cherished, full of joy and expectation.” (36-37)
“O playful little boy, / Your flowering time is like a day of grace, / So brightly blue, / Anticipating the great feast of life.“ (41-45)
“The Village Saturday”
Giacomo Leopardi
“And thus, forever driven towards new shores, / Swept into eternal night without return, / Will we never, for even one day, drop anchor / On time’s vast ocean?” (1-4)
“But I ask in vain for just a few more moments, / Time escaping me flees; / While I beg the night: ‘Slow down’ already/ It fades into dawn.” (29-32)
“May everything that we hear and see and breathe, / Awaken the memory of —their love!” (63-64)
“The Lake”
Alphonse de Lamartine
“Poison flows / In my veins” (35-38)
“Sea, start to churn! / Be a grave for me! / Golden harp, / Strike like thunder! / Fire, flow, / Warm this poor woman!” (43-48)
“From the Seashore”
Anna Petrovna Bunina
“Oh poor child, barefoot on these sharp-edged rocks! / Oh to stop the crying of your blue eyes, / blue like the sky and like the sea” (13-15)
“ ‘Friend,’ replied the Greek child with the clear blue eyes, ‘I want some bullets and a gun.’ ” (35-36)
“The Child”
Victor Hugo
“I will walk, my eyes seeing only mind’s visions / Seeing nothing else, hearing not a sound” (5-6)
“And when I arrive, I will place upon your grave / A wreath of green holly and heather in bloom.“ (11-12)
“Tomorrow at Daybreak”
Victor Hugo
“The loveliest maiden is sitting / Up there, so wondrously fair;” (9-10)
“She combs with a golden comb, preening, / And sings a song, passing time.” (13-14)
“The boatman aboard his small skiff, –Enraptured with a wild ache, Has no eye for the jagged cliff, –His thoughts on the heights fear forsake.” (17-20)
“Die Lorelei” (The Lorelei)
Heinrich Heine
“—heralds a dawn in the night of the soul,” (2)
“in words that were at the same time / sighs and laughs, colours and notes.” (7-
“[I Know a Strange Gigantic Hymn]” Rima I
Gustavo Aldolfo Bécquer
“I live with the formless / life of idea.” (3-4)
“I, in short, am that spirit, / unfamiliar essence, / mysterious perfume, / of which the poet is the vessel” (73-76)
“[Nameless Spirit]” Rima V
Gustavo Aldopho Bécquer
“In winter spared her life, and when anew / The earth was being born in blossoming, / Slew her by inches to the joyous hymns / Of fair and merry spring!” (7-10)
“[The Ailing Woman felt her forces ebb]”
Rosalia de Castro
“But well remember this: No insolent cry/ To Heaven makes its way / From one whose heart adores material things, / Who makes an idol out of Adam’s clay.” (22-25)
“[A Glowworm Scatters Flashes through the Moss]”
Rosalia de Castro
“Abyss above, and in the depths abyss: What things come to an end and what remain?” (3-4)
“[A Glowworm Scatters Flashes through the Moss]”
Rosalia de Castro
describe some of the main differences between the romantic and the enlightenment view?
The two terms, in fact, relate to different things. The Enlightenment started in the late 17th century, progressing through the 18th and was a time when thinkers began to look at the world around them from a scientific, rather than a superstitious, viewpoint. This led to a reconsideration of how the political system should work. The Romantic Period (of the 19th century), on the other hand, was not bothered with such,. but was a movement in the arts - music, literature and painting, for example. It was a move towards a more personal view away from the classical, objective, view of the 18th century.
what are some three or four things that romanticism emphasizes?
- feeling,
- imagination,
- the primitive
which one (reason or feelings) should be the guide to certainty, according to the romantics? why?
feelings, they believed The heart, not reason, was a source of knowledge.
what is the romantic view of traditional authority and self?
Most Romantics believed in individual liberty and sympathized with those who rebelled against tyranny.
alba
A Provençal (southern France) medieval lyric poem about the coming of dawn. The theme can be religious or more often about lovers parting at dawn.
poems to do with Love and Broken Hearts
1.“[A Young Man Loves a Maiden]”
unrequited love
2.“[A pine is standing lonely]”
love where there is something keeping the lovers apart
3. “To Himself”
a person who keeps experiancing unrequited love and if finnally through with having his heart broken by his love not being returned
Rosalia de Castro
poem(s:
As I Composed This Little Book
A Glowworm Scatters Flashes through the Moss
The Ailing Woman Felt Her Forces Ebb
Rosalia de Castro nationality.
Spanish
Victor Hugo poem(s:
“The Child”
“tomorrow at daybreak”
Victor Hugo Nationality
french
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer poem(s:
“Nameless Spirit”
“I know a strange gigantic hymn”
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer Nationality
Spanish
Heinrich Heine poem(s:
“The Silesian Weavers” “A Pine Is Standing Lonely” “A Young Man Loves a Maiden” “Ah death is like the long cool night” Carmen
Heinrich Heine Nationality
German of Jewish heritage
Giacomo Leopardi poem(s:
“the infinate”
“To Himself”
“To Sylvia”
“the village saturday”
Giacomo Leopardi Nationality
Italian
