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- waiting (image from Shakespeare - describes intense isolation, solitude, desolation, waiting for a man to come who is never going to come - Tennyson is writing about people from much earlier periods (Shakespeare) - Recalls to the painters of his era, much earlier in English history - "She said 'I am weary, weary, I would that I were dead!'"
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Mariana by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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- woman has a curse on her - doesn't know why, but she can't look at the world, can only look into a mirror that reflects the world - looking into the mirror one day, sees people riding, sees Sir Lancelot - the curse was, if she looks outside, she will have to die, she rides the barge and dies
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Lady of Shalott by Tennyson
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same style as The Idylls of the King
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The Passing of Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!"
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Mariana by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Part one Talks about Camelot and its relation to shallot. There is a river that runs through on an island and willow trees It is a castle
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The Lady of Shalot by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Part Two The lady of Shalot spends all her time locked in a tower weaving. There is a village below but she knows nothing of it because shes always weaving. No lovers
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The Lady of Shalot by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Part Three Sir Lancelot lives in Camelot, his image flashes in the mirror she uses to weave so she can see how far shes come. She leaves it to look at him and the mirror breaks. She is cursed
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The Lady of Shalot by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Part four _____ sends herself on a boat, she dies. All the men are fearful of her corpse, Sir Lancelot is not, he muses it.
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The Lady of Shalot by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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about the sea, fisherman, sailor, ships
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Break, Break, Break by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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brooding, Crying idly About death Dead people repetition of "days that are no more"
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Tears, Idle Tears by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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The King is in a tent speaking with God Asking if there is like some lesser God that made this land Thinks he is about to die Gaiwain was killed in Lancelot's war Sir Bedivere overhears, makes a noise, The king hears him King Arthur speaks about invading Rome "Ill doom is mine/ To War against my people and my knights."
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The Passing of Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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King Arthur left and rode to Lyonnesse (legendary land) "where fragments of forgotten peoples dwelled" Says Arthur still hasn't fought a fight But then he fights, confused. "And friend slew friend not knowing whom he slew" Arthur calls himself king amoung the dead after the awful battle Arthur slew Modred, then "all but slain himself, he fell" King Arthurs men all died around him, for him Because arthurs wound was so deep, Bedivere put him on a cross
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The Passing of Arthur
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Arthur spoke to Bedivere Swore to rule again Told Bedivere to throw Excalibur into the middle of the lake, watch what happens and come back and tell Arthur Bedivere thought it was better to keep Excalibur than throw it in the lake so he hid it King Arhtur knew he was lying, sent him back to actually do it Bedivere really struggles to force himself to throw it in the lake since it is so beautiful but knows he should obey He doesn't. He hides the sword again. Lies to arhtur again Arthurs mad, threatens to slay Bedivere if he doesn't throw the sword in the lake He does, someone catches the sword, becomes "clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful" and the sword brandishes this man 3 times and drew him under in the mere (lake/pond) Bedivere goes back and tells Arthur
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The Passing of Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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King Arthur started breathing hard, said he was going to die, Bedivere bore him through the place of tombs Three queens rose from the lake ith crowns of gold Arthur wanted to be placed in the barge the queens took him and wept The talles, fairest laid his head on her lap Sir Bedivere asks where he shall go since everyone will be gone King Arthur just tells him to make pure The king dies in a boat that is pushed away from Bedivere "From the great deep to the great deep he goes" "Somewhere far off, pass on and on, and go/ From less to less and vanish into the light./ And the new sun rose bringing the new year."
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The Passing of Arthur, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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written in Blank Verse Comparison of bird Her and her aunt Braided her hair back even though she had really big beautiful curly hair Was more liberated in Italy Needs to speak English not Italian because Italian is not respectable Needed to be an ornament Made ornaments for the home needleWORK made decorative objects that have no use at all - very labor intensive work is not really worth anything
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Aurora Lee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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-one battle to another battle place -all the horses died except main characters enthusiasm of main character -devotion to main cause -presented as attractive, admirable -character in a world where duty is everything -not written in iambic pentameter
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Good News from Ghent to Aix by Robert Browning
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- great classic example of dramatic monologue - without tells you what to think shows you a dark sinister speaker - talking about marrying another woman - objection is that the wife was sweet and kind to everyone - cold intense dislike that she is kind to sweet to anyone that is not him - SO HE HAD HER KILLED - ...for what? For smiling... - iambic pentameter - heroic couplets - rhymes in pairs - traditional - shows a lot of control, mastery
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My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
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wife tries to seduce husband. He strangles her with her own hair He says they can finally sit peacefully now God has not said a word
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Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning
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three galloping through together, "So, Joris broke silence with, 'yet there is time'", all the horses die
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How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Robert Browning
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"Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man,/ Self-called George Sand!..." About a man and woman that are famous at a circus, there is thunder above and they have "pinions" - a shaft or spindle cut with teeth engaging with a gear. "To kiss upon thy lips a stainless fame."
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To George Sand: A Desire by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"True genius, but true woman! " weaker women wear gauds (ornaments) in captivity "The world thou burnest in a poet-fire" "Till God unsex thee on the heavenly shore/ Where unincarnate (disembodied) spirits purely aspire!"
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To George Sand: A Recognition by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" I love thee freely, purely, with passion "I shall love thee better after death"
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Sonnets from the Portuguese Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Going to England Cried a lot It's where her father used to live Is going to her father's sister "country-house" her father's sister seems strict (aunt?) kind of old, seems weary, worn down "She had lived, we'll say,/ A harmless life, she called a virtuous life" "A sort of cage-bird life, born in a cage,/Accounting that leap from perch to perch/...I, alas,/ A wild bird scarcely fledged, was brought to her cage,/ And she was there to meet me. Very kind." "'She loved my father and would love me too/ As long as I deserved it.' Very kind." "And thus my father's sister was to me/ My mother's hater." They generally got along and were courteous to eachother, did not tenderly love eachother
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From Aurora Leigh Book 1 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Aunt taught her how to needle point Aunt had her braid her hair back "because she liked smooth ordered hair" She stopped speaking Italian (Tuscan) because "she liked my father's child to speak his tongue." Learned French and German "since she liked a range/ Of liberal education, -tongues, not books." Learned other random things Learned much music Painted, danced, "spun glass, stuffed birds, and modeled flowers in wax,/ Because she liked accomplishments in girls." Learned about feminism- more like the opposite of it Learned to cross stitch "By the way,/ The works of women are symbolical." "This hurts most, this—that, afterall, we are paid/The worth of our work, perhaps."
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From Aurora Leigh: Book 1 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Speaker is with a guest that he is addressing Fra pandolf was the painter Painted a duchess for a day Speaker was her husband Artist calling the duchess beautiful, she says its just courtesy. She blushes anyways She was almost too polite, too easily amused Generous and kind to many people
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My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
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The speaker is very controlling, only wanted her to smile around him Other people brought her material gifts, he was jealous of this, but we don't really know the reason why. He gave her his last name (and he was duke so he gave her "duchess" title) He only wants her to be nice to him since he gave her his last name He refused to tell her why he was upset with her A normal husband is expected to explain to his wife when she is doing something wrong He says explaining that to her would be stooping: he's too proud to do that Her smile is not special to him He doesn't think she treats him special enough
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My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
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"This grew; I gave commands;/then all smiles stopped together" at the end they are done looking at the painting he's looking for a dowry so he can get married again the duchess is nothing but representation she's just an object he wants to control basically warning to the agent that he killed his last wife so the next wife "better behave"
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My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
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- husband strangles his wife - he is just sitting all night with this corpse - he's expecting to be punished, "And yet God has not said a word!" - Victorians were questioning God/religion - Choked her to death and then sat with her all night
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Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning
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tennyson's poems, not Elizabeth barrett browning, but yes to Robert browning and Arnold
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melancholy
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sadness not caused by any particular thought, wake up, don't know why, just feel gloomy
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melancholy
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-it's a lyric poem - does not tell a story - doesn't tell a narrative, speaks of a state of mind or emotion, maybe a shift of mind or emotion, - starts out as a very beautiful view of a location out of a window -calm beautiful image of English channel across the channel in France beautiful scene of where England is in the world
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Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
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sound of the surf reminds him of how thepebbles get dragged in a nd out thinkinga bout the scrape of human misery tha comes and goes the world used to be at high tide with faith but now that too is receding, its slipping away melancholy receding of faith the world SEEMS to lay before us actually, there is no joy, no light, no peace, no servitude
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Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
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no meaning, no redemption, no faith except the possibility of a human relationship, "Ah love, let us be true to one another" is we can love each other, have faith in each other, then there is something in our life we can have faith in
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Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
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200 years ago there was a student at oxford who got tired of being a student and ran away with the gypsies bands of people traveled around on wagons, had a bad reputation for being criminal, constantly moving what they knew how to do was musicians, scholar learns to be a musician too the speaker, poet wants to be a gypsy
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Scholar Gypsy by Matthew Arnold
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it's controlled nature it's not wilderness, it's meadows escape from city life out tot the rural the people that live out there (madins, work the land) those people can still see the gypsy scholar the speaker can't but would like to be able to escape with the gypsy scholar from the pressures of modern life
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Scholar Gypsy by Matthew Arnold
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warning the spirit to stay away from contact with normal people because it would kill him, he would die a time when things were simpler, you could count on faith, beauty, joy, the meaning of life
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Scholar Gypsy by Matthew Arnold
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could be expressed as a hymm she didn't set it to music but she wrote the lyric The poem she wrote on her death bed Refused to lie down when she had tuberculosis She was determined not to die but was not scared to She knows she's going to heaven
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No Coward Soul is Mine by Emily Brontë
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it is a dramatic monologue this woman chained to the floor this woman surprises them by talking back fantasy, gothic setting
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The Prisoner: A Fragment by Emily Brontë
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Away as in day dreaming, letting "soul" (mind) wander "Through infinite immensity"
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I'm Happiest When Most Away by Emily Brontë
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The speaker, a man, is visiting a dungeon in his father's castle Walking through the dungeon, idly Very dark, unpleasant "Then, God forgive my youth, forgive my careless tongue!" there was a very young girl there, did not show any wrinkles on her face evidence of grief
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The Prisoner: A Fragment by Emily Brontë
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the captive says she's been struck, is suffering, the bolts and irons will give soon the jailor mocked her, asked if she thought she would "melt my master's heart with groans?" the jailor describes the master with a low voice, bland, kind, with a hard soul. Jailor describes self as rough and rude the girl tells the jailor he has not heard her mourn A messenger of Hope comes to her every night Comes with western winds & kills her with desire "Desire for nothing known in my mature years/ When joy grew mad with awe at counting future tears"
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The Prisoner: A Fragment by Emily Brontë
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"Mute music soothes my breat" outward sense gone, inward essence feels, wings almost free pain when coming back to senses she wouldn't wish for any less torture she stopped talking ,turned around, "Her cheek, her gleaming eye, declared that man had given/ A sentence unapproved, and overruled by Heaven"
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The Prisoner: A Fragment by Emily Brontë
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- the dress is medieval - quill is medieval - all the stuff in the background - dreamy stares - voluptuous, curvy women - parted lips
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Soul's Beauty and Body's Beauty by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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- "fleshly school of poetry" - did not want to open himself to the criticism even though he was criticized anyways - did not want to associate himself with a prostitute - attention to physical detail you wouldn't see in other poems - calls her symbols: flower, book - flower: she is a trampled flower - whose purse are you dreaming of - book: he's trying to read her, read her thoughts, imagine what her life is like
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Jenny by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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- there are beautiful illustrated editions - marketed for children but written for adults - what critics call a deceptively simple rhyme scheme her style is compelling with the content she is writing - different rhyme scheme for the goblins: relies on the sounds you hear at a market - when talking about just Laura and lizzie (184) - we think of the kinds of rhythms you're used to hearing - most of it is 5-7 syllables - much less predictable and stable when just domestic, at home scenes
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Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
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- deceptively simple rhythms and rhyme scheme that she undercuts - poem about fallen women - often read as an allegory - laura is a fallen woman, lizzie goes to save her - was kind of read as a lesbian love poem - violence of goblins (males) in the scene where she wont eat the fruits - she sacrifices herself to save her sisters - when she talks of the goblin men, she speaks like them too - almost erotic intimacy between women
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Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
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many faces on the artists canvases but they are all the same to the narrator. The artist paints the women as he wants them to look, not necessarily as she really does.
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In an Artist's Studio by Christina Rossetti
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he is happy her love has come to her, her heart is happy Shes so happy that its like her birthday
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A Birthday by Christina Rossetti
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Jack and Algernon always doing it (inversions) for comic effect, practically the only way they talk Inversions also borne of satire
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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
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Cecily: constantly making inversions "ingénue" no concept of double meanings, sex
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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
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Mouse is stuck in trap Going to die Running low on food Change in tone "The cheerful light, the vital air...the common gifts of heaven" "So, when destruction lurks unseen, which men, like mice, may share, may some kind angel clear they path, and break the hidden snare."
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The Mouse's Petition by Anna Letita Barbauld
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Plant growing Child growing Mother writing about child Wanting to pray to make everything all right for the child always Pregnant mom
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To a Little Invisible Being Who is Expected Soon to Become Visible by Anna Barbauld
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Recalling a day from her childhood, every day life of living in the country, repeats title throughout poem
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Washing Day by Anna Barbauld
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one stanza poem about sleeping
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To Sleep by Charlotte Smith
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Talks about the moon Depressed girl Grief Cheerless Hopeless Exhausted at heart Will reach the ear of heaven
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To Night by Charlotte Smith
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Envious of the "lunatic" Lunatic-guy that lives by himself away from society about brooding poets
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On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because it was Frequented by a Lunatic by Charlotte Smith
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Thankful for the lamb God made the lamb God made the child and lamb
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The Lamb by William Blake
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Little Black boy wants to be white Wants to be accepted Compares to lambs
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The Little Black Boy by William Blake
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About Tom who had a dream about an angel telling him to be a good boy Tom is a chimney sweeper sold young Lots of black, death
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the Chimney Sweeper by William Blake
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Love builds heaven in Hell's despair When love is only to please oneself it becomes hell
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the Clod and the Pebble by William Blake
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Death in London Crying Infants Marriage--→ Death
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London by William Blake
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You tell your friend when you are angry with them, so the wrath ends Allowing yourself to hold a grudge against a foe lets your foe enjoy your anger
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A Poison Tree by William Blake
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Little girl's siblings died and she still considers them her siblings
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We Are Seven by William Wordsworth
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Get out of your books, go to nature, nature's great, We murder nature to dissect it Leave behind science and art, and go into nature
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The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth
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Fell in love with Lucy Was riding his horse to her house at night and it occurred to him that Lucy could be dead
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Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known by William Wordsworth
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No one knew Lucy, but she died
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She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways by William Wordsworth
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Second/last stanza: No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees."
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A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal by William Wordsworth
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Poet can't help but be happy in nature, a lot of personification of nature
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I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud by William Wordsworth
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Rainbow, child, father, piety
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My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth
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Part One: X is at a wedding telling a story to a wedding guest, hypnotizes the guest into giving him his will. Tells story about how he was sailing with a crew and they kept traveling south, till it was frozen, X shot the albatross (good omen bird)
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Part Two: The entire crew starves/becomes dehydrated because the albatross was killed. They hang the bird around X's neck.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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They come across the ship that is already dead. It appears that a woman is the captain. Every person on the ship is living dead.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel taylor Coleridge
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Part Four: The guest at the wedding is concerned the mariner is a spirit and he assures him he is not. The mariner talks about the curse from the dead ship, he was starved and dehydrated but couldn't die even though everyone around him was dying. Then the albatross fell off his neck and everything got better
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Part 5: It rained. The crew came back alive. There is more penance (punishment) to come
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Part Six: The ship goes on quickly without anyone steering Ancient mariner comes to his native country There were a bunch of corpses Seraphs (shining celestial beings) stood in the corpses A boat appeared with someone singing hymns on it
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Part Seven: The boat that is nearing them looks creepy and starts to sink X wakes up in the pilot's boat X moves his lips and the pilot passed out, the holy hermit prayed, and the pilot's boy laughed X is in his native country, on land but has an ever urge to travel from land to land X describes the wedding and how they pray X wants to teach the wedding guest a lesson, the guest is just kind of stunned It has been argued that there is no moral, there isn't really, just to have imagination, and want to believe
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Poet was writing a poem and was interrupted by a person from Porlock Coleridge has written a fragment "of very different character, describing with equal fidelity the dream of pain and disease" Talks about a poet who live in Xanadu where there is the stip of fertile land There is a very old forest, a romantic chasm, a woman "wailing for her demon-lover!", rocks, a river Kubla heard "ancestral voices prophesying war!" A damsel playing her dulcimer singing of mount abora Weaving a circle around a poet thrice was a magic ritual to protect the inspired poet from intrusion, can only drink the milk of paradise when under the influence of Dionysus
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Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Can't sleep cus drugs
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The Pains of Sleep by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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- memory and relationship to nature - beauty of nature recreated through the poem - subjectivity-what it's like to live in a human mind (consciousness)
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I wandered lonely as a cloud by William Wordsworth
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- romantics like to idealize childhood - the children are gone but to her they still live and exist in her imagination, as far as she's concerned, she still has six siblings - commonness of death in childhood
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We are Seven by William Wordsworth
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Lucy Poems by William Wordsworth
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Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known and She dwelt among the untrodden ways
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- poet loves a simple country girl - nobody knows about her but she means a lot to him - she's the object of his subjectivity - the poems aren't about her, it's about his feelings about her
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Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known and She dwelt among the untrodden ways by William Wordsworth
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-was taking opium bc he had indigestion -in and out of mental state, pains of doing drugs -how difficult it is for him to go to sleep, being punished for awful emotions he doesn't want -claims he hasn't done anything to feel so guilty -he is going through withdrawl -expresses so vividly, it's not his fault -Opiates were not legal
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The Pains of Sleep by William Taylor Coleridge
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Aunt Phillipa marries a younger man who gambles all her money away He works as a stage coach driver Aunt phillipa rides on his coach every day. It's austen making fun of the idea that the women have to follow her husband around
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Love and friendship by Jane Austen
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- satire of the novels she loved in her youth - making fun of the elements of the novels she read
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Love and Friendship by Jane Austen
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- making fun of : o epistolary form- no conversation going on bw the characters, making fun of how egotistical the heroines can be o excessive sensibility- every time Laura and Isabel faint or "run mad" she is making fun of how "tenuous" the heroines grip was on reality o morality- the idea that a novel needs to have a good solid moral message, no moral to her story o outrageous coincidences-people running into people all the time o heroines as "paragons"- present a heroine that all women should aspire to but jane austen thinks they are ridiculous
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Love and Friendship by Jane Austen
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Wrote to blend old and new romance From the Castle of Otranto Manfred (villain): prince of Otranto arranged marriage b/w his son (Conrad) and Isabella. But Conrad is mysteriously killed on wedding day Manfred decides to divorce wife and marry Isabella Isabella plans to flee when she finds out
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Horace Walpole
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Suppressed comedy From Vathek (evil) Spirits getting out, heaven putting them back
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William Beckford
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"The Great Enchantress" rational heroines in a worlds of nightmarish mystery succession of inexplicable sights and sounds From The Romance of the Forest Walking around a creepy house with a lot of "old lumber"-furniture. Goes outside. Moon. Picks up a dagger. It's rusted. Sees a pile of old furniture. Goes over to it, a scroll falls from it. She can't read it so she runs away From the Mysteries of Udolpho Montoni brings Emily to his castle. She is amazed by it at first but then feels she is entering a prison
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Ann Radcliffe
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Most gory and vividly written novel: The monk Goes from being a monk to a rapist and murderer Seduced by Matilda-female dragon disguised as Rosario (male novice) The Monk Saw a painting of Antonia and fell into a great lust for her Snuck to her room at night and charmed her to sleep, kissed her, almost did more but Elvira came in and started throwing a(n understandable) fit calling him a hypocrite and whatnot. The monk kept thinking about escaping. Elvira kept screaming so the monk grabbed her by the throat and suffocated her with a pillow on her face and his knee on her breast. The friar caught him in the act. "Antonia now appeared to him an object of disgust." He tried to run away "Wherever he turned, the disfigured corpse lie in his passage, and it was long before he succeeded in reaching the door"
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Matthew Gregory Lewis
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There was a great interest in Gothic style Making a link to this very specific English past Glorifying the sublimity of the but subordinated to sublimity of nature
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Beckford's Vathek
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Particular place in the world where Englishmen have died either in battle or in conquest Sea, eqypt, india, America (Columbia is synonym for America), Portugal, south pole The poems are written to make them memorable The thematic patterns are a reason English children would be asked to remember them. They are very patriotic (could also be read sarcastic) but it is a sincere poem
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England's Dead by Felicia Hemans
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each stanza has a theme compares stately homes/ great houses of England ( big beautiful country houses) with the cottages (where the people live on the lands of aristocrats, poor and depend completely on aristocrats for work) mother teaches and nurtures the children, whole family gets piety at home Domesticity that teaches little children all about loving their country and God Patriotism: you have to fight to protect your freedom
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The Homes of England by Felicia Hemans
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author did not kill herself when she was abandoned by her husband Romanticization character of poem kills herself bc her husband doesn't want her domestic bliss anymore Imagines X woman feeling the same way about domesticity
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Indian Woman's Death Song
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- radical sentiment about how trivial tyrinical power is compared to art - the sculpter is the hand that mocked the figure, making a portrait of his face has revealed the contemptable features of the - is a lyric poem-tyrany will pass - but could be considered narrative poem - poet has written this poem with the idea that tyranny will pass - exposers of ozymandias' foolishness - "look on my works" yep, there's nothing there
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Ozymandias by Percy Shelley
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the wind, fall, changing seasons
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Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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o Very common for 19th century poets to reach back into medeval English folklore or motifs o The poor knight that falls in love with this woman that will seduce him as she has many before
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats
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looking at the urn and looking at the decoration aroung the urn, sees these scenes, action is depicted on the urn but it is frozen in time • This is what art does, freezes action in time o Idea that art is eternal if human life has to pass o As poetry is eternal, so does the poet get to be immortal o There is not heaven but there is poetry o Critics cannot agree whatsoever on what the last two lines mean
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Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
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"beauty is truth, truth beauty," --that is all/ ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
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Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
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Ozymandias is a king that has been sculpted. The pedestal of his statue talks about how he is the king of kings and where he is buried
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Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Very colorful poem Talking about the changing of the seasons West wind=autumn Colorful bc leaves and sky and horizon Talks about the blue mediteranean Foliage in the atlantic ocean Need dead leaves to grow new ones "If winter comes can spring be far behind?"
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Ode to the West Wind by Percy Shelley
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"There slumber England's dead" dead people everywhere turmoil gone when dead
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England's Dead by Felicia Hemans
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England is a great place Nature, singing, children, church, nature "The stately homes of England"
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The Homes of England by Felicia humans
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"An Indian woman, driven to despair by her husband's desertion of her for another wife... Her voice was heard from the shore singing a mournful death-song, until overpowered by the sound of the waters in which she perished..." one very long stanza with short lines describing the woman long four lined stanzas coming from the woman's POV
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Indian Woman's Death Song by Felicia Hemans
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Has traveled a lot greatness of the sea s/o to Apollo, homer, chapman, cortez, and darien
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On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats
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Fears of dying before he can write everything down that he wants to. He doesn't write for fame or love: "Of the wide world I stand alone, and think/ Till love and fame to nothingness do sink"
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When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be by John Keats
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Everythings great in lust but not so much when the lust is gone
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad by John Keats
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There is a virgin bride Gods or men Maidens Musical instuments "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/ Are sweeter..." youth, trees priest skies mountain citadel little town desolate streets Attic of Greece (Attica) "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"
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Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
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- his first time reading the piece in English, had originally read it in Greek, thinks it is much better in English
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On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats
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o First lines are about the poet wishing to be famous o Second quatrain about wishing to express thoughts and feelings o Then about the love he has for a woman o Then standing alone and thinking about what it means that he will die o Having to contemplate an eternity
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When I have fears that I may cease to be by John Keats
