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Twentieth Century Exam Flashcards

1
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When did the Irish Renaissance happen?

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1180 in England
Reformation 1900 Irish Renaissance

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Who wrote The Darkling Thrush?

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Thomas Hardy

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Who wrote Hap?

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Thomas Hardy

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What is Hap about?

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Nothing you do will make a difference, it is just fate. Gloomy way of seeing life.

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What is The Darkling Thrush?

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Pessimism and balancing hope
So much boom!!!
Everything relating to death

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Who wrote the Convergence of the Twain?

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Thomas Hardy

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What is the Convergence of the Twain about?

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Coming together of two things - ocean liner and the iceberg
About the titanic!
We should have never thought the Titanic greater than Nature

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Who wrote Anthem for Doomed Youth?

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Wilfred Owen

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What is Anthem for Doomed Youth about?

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Represents something
Sign someone in family has died
About how kids are doomed when they go to war

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Who wrote Dulce Et Decorum Est?

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Wilfred Owen

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What is Dulce Et Decorum Est about?

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Nobel men with a strong willing
Charge - going into valley of death for their country
Dulce - struggling, exhausted, and fatigued soldiers

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12
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Who wrote Easter?

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William Yeats

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What is Easter about?

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Irish revolt against the British
Stone is terrible beauty (death of the Irish rebellion)

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Who wrote The Second Coming?

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William Yeats

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What is the second coming about?

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Christianity
Is the next thing to be good or bad?
The gyre (spinning circle) Jesus coming is the next best thing

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Who wrote Leda and the Swan?

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William Yeats

17
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What is Leda and the Swan?

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Zeus in swan form rapes Leda a mortal
Do we know the consequences for our actions?
Destruction of Troy

18
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Who wrote Araby?

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James Joyce

19
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What is Araby about?

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About his life
Fool to begin with
Small step way from Beautiful to Beauty (abstract)

20
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Who wrote the Dead?

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James Joyce

21
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What is The Dead?

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Party after Christmas (talent show)
Gabriel Conroy - the favorite nephew
He believes he’s smarter than everyone
Gabriel is Joyce!!
Last image we get is of a graveyard
Title and last words = The Dead

22
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Who wrote Ulysses?

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James Joyce

23
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What is Ulysses about?

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Mrs. Dalloway on steroids
Being a housewife

24
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Who wrote the Wasteland?

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After World War One
Looking for happiness finding lust not love, don’t know what kind of people they are anymore
Even though everything is destroyed and things seem bad now, things will get better we need to change our way of thinking like Boodan

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Who wrote Musee des Beaux Arts?

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W. H. Auden

26
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What is Musee des Beaux Arts about?

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People in Europe are looking away
Icarus is the things happening in Europe
We aren’t looking where we need to be looking

27
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Who wrote September 1, 1939?

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W. H. Auden

28
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What is September 1, 1939 about?

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First day of WWII
He would like to be the one to help Icarus
Call to Action!!!

29
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Who wrote Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night?

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Dylan Thomas

30
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What is Do Not Go Into That Good Night?

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Mortality based
A lot of emotion
Wants some kind of emotion or conversation from his father to get him to not want to die

31
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Who wrote Audabe?

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Philip Larkin

32
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What is Aubade about?

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Death exists. Face it.

33
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Who wrote Omeros?

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Derek Walcott

34
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What is Omeros about?

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History of his people
Philoctete - represents all African Americans suffering
He is reborn starting over in the beginning like in genesis

35
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Who wrote Digging?

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Seamus Heaney

36
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What is Digging about?

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Getting things out of the way to get to something else
Symbol: shovel
Tiny glimpse of his life
The Gun is concrete thing that connects them
Digging in a different way than his father and grandfather

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Who wrote The Braudballe Man?

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Seamus Heaney

38
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What is The Grauballe Man about?

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Well preserved man in a bog
Doesn’t look like a dead person
Fight between England and Ireland
Grauballe Man stands in for what happened to these who were living and died in the violence

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