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| by Keats. the message is don't count on spring, relish fall. loves the earth the way it is. poem describes the inner fillings of fall. images of death or going away- birds migrating, crickets dying= cycle of nature |
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"On First Looking Into
Chapman's Homer"
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| by Keats. Extended Metaphor, traveling= reading. Once he reads Chapman he is "discovering." reading is a journey |
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by Shelley. Man from a far off land tells the story of a statue of a great leader in ruins, shows the insignificance of political power, art is always what prevails, ironic, message under the statue and then being surrounded by desolate sands. Shows the inevitable decline of all leaders
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"The World Is Too Much
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| by Wordsworth. Worldly goods are too involved in every day life. Spend too much time with worldly matters. Wants to get back to nature and see the power of nature. desires a truer appreciation of what it has to offer. our creative human power is destroyed by civilization (Romanticism). |
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"Composed Upon Westminster Bridge"
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| by Wordsworth. talks about the beauties of London. A moment that grabs you (Romanticism). gives a different view point if comparison to "London" by Blake. More optimistic |
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| by Blake. People in London are depressed, weak, sorrowful. People's minds are chained, anger is building. blames church and royalty. It highlights troubles in London during this period, wants to raise awareness. blackened church= blinded by evil. blood on palace walls, shows how twisted culture in London is, people are voluntarily giving up their freedoms. Social ills can only be solved by freedom of thought (Romanticism). |
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"The Chimney Sweeper Experience" |
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| By Blake. Appears to be a happy child but is sad and bitter about his living conditions. resents his parents for selling him to the chimney sweepers. Parents and church participate in a social system that that condones child labor. Dancing and singing are false impressions (Romanticism). |
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"The Chimney Sweeper" in Innocence |
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| by Blake. If you do your work, no harm will come to you. Give a clear moral. Meant to disturb the reader because the little boys situation is so unfair. Horrific promises are inadiquate to the solution, call out/ metaphorical crying. Little boy and big boy, dreams happily naive (Romanticism). |
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| by Blake. While author speaking from perspective of black boy. No difference between him and the English boy other than skin color. In God's eyes everyone is the same, Black boy wants to overcome the barriers formed by skin color, mother says heaven is a place where there is no prejudice. children know the truth, 1789, growing sense of opression (Romanticism). |
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| by Wordsworth. Man is listening to a woman feild worker sing in a foreign language. Song is melancholy. Compares to a nightengale and cuckoo bird. Her voice is universal. Either singing of epic battles or personal tragedy. song helps him move on, keeps it in his heart. The muse of nature, natural world, true source of everything is nature. Simplicity is valued (Romanticism). |
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"A Litany In Time of Plague"
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| by Nashe. All things happy are overcome by death. money can't buy life and wealth and beauty doesn't last forever. young die too. Strength fades, death overcomes wit, embrace death, because everything must fall to be redeemed and saved by God in heaven (Renaissance). |
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| by Donne. Sex and War= faith and God. Until God makes him his slave he will never free. He is captured by the devil, needs to open himself up to God. Asks God to rape him, and break him. Desires to be awakened spiritually (Renaissance). |
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| by Donne. Death is not mighty or dreadful. It is the slave of fate, chance, kings, and desperate men. Everyone is horrified of death, so death has pride, but it should not because it is not the end of all things, death brings an eternal life. Ren. belief in a good death (Renaissance). |
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| by Marvell. Writes a love letter to his mistress. Describes the fun they would have with an eternity of time together. Declares his undying love. All of her physical attributes, carpe dium. While they are young they should be physical, one must take advantage of life (Renaissance). |
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| (Renaissance) by Donne. Poetic Conciet. A Flea bites a man first and then the woman, remarks how since their blood has come together in the flea thatthey should have sex because they have already been intimately connected. The flea is on the woman, he wants to be in the flea's position. tells her not to kill the flea because their blood has been combined in it. Her having sex w/ him is as inconsequential to her honor as the flea's life is. |
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| by Donne. Carpe Dium. Compares girl to the bait used to catch fish. Poetic conceit. Seduction (wet tshirt element) woman is compared to bait, but the poem is also the bait he uses to attract this woman and seduce her (Renaissance). |
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"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepard" |
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| by Ralegh. Reply to "the passionate shepard to his love" in which a man offers his girlfriend all that nature can provide. The Nymphs reply is skeptical, cheesy, seasons change. Saying that what he offers seems nice but unrealistic. suggests that the shepard is naive. doubts the shepard's ability to keep promises. "Flower's Fade" she would join him if she was eternal but its impossible (Renaissance). |
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"The Passionate Shepard to His Love" |
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| by Marlowe. Invented speaker persona. Theme: love and nature go together. People can love with simple beautiful things from nature. Poem consists of vivid imagery trying to persuade his love to come and live with him and explain the amazing life that they would have if she would be his love. |
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