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| The idea that if someone thinks they are being watched they will behave |
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| an extended metaphor, one to one ratio, gives structure to narrative, |
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| An extended metaphor that turns intangible things into tangible things. |
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| purpose/ full potential of something |
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near rhyme, an approximation of a rhyme
used because it gives a poet more options. |
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| -and on the way back they would stagger onto my lawn and call '***! ****!- The deaf old lady remaining suspected nothing. But sometimes I slipped inside to answer their calls... Later the paddy-Wagon would gather them up like daisies.. The long way home |
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Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
Flowers= a return to innocence
her "deflowering"/ loss of virginity |
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symbol in streetcar.
Fire = Danger
Mitch has a lighter with poetry so Blanche thinks hes sensitive |
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| "Exposes" Blanche in streetcar. |
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| The book that the boy had at the end of "The day they burned the books" was about an Indian orphan. |
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| God love you for a liar! Daylight never exposed so total a ruin. |
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Streetcar named Desire
Tennesee Williams
The idea that light exposes Blanche to be who she really is.
Also that she has a huge ego.. but this is ironically true. |
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| Upon gaining a less remote view, the ship, with shreds of fog here and there raggedly furring her, appeared like a white washed monastery after a thunderstorm, seen perched upon some dun cliff amoung the Pyrenees. |
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Benito Cereno
Herman Mellville
description of ship
monastery- catholic = bad, old
Fog- mysterious
White- weather beaten |
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| "No, no. Master will never do that," here murmured the servant to himself. "Proud *** must first ask the masters pardon. The slave there carries the padlock, but the master here carries the key." |
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Benito Cereno
Herman Mellville
Bobo speaking for Benito- shows power over him
mind games of the Africans
Atufal will not apologize, shows the Africans use of sound for communication/power
this is all a show being put on for Delano. |
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| "Now Master," he said, readjusting the flag, and pressing the head gently further back into the crotch of the chair; "now master," and the steel glanced the nigh of his throat. |
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Benito Cereno
Herman Mellville
The shaving Scene
Flag shows the power they have over them.. empowers the Africans
Babo continues to put on a show for Delano
The razor becomes almost a torture object because Babo shows his power over Delano. |
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"A lover of the meadows and the woods
and mountains; and of all that we behold
From this green earth; of all the mighty world
of eye, and ear- both of they half create,
and what perceive; well pleased to recognize
In nature the language of the sense
The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,
The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul
Of all my mortal being |
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Tintern Abbey
William Wordsworth
-nature is intellectual nourishment
-overarching unity (heart+soul) (eye+ear)
-imagination
-Romantic poem. |
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| "By woman wailing for her demon lover! And from the Chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, as if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing. |
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Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
-poet harnesses potential of nature by experiencing it
-"natural world has gone arie"
-nature as a primal entity
-cannot fit nature into a "pleasure garden"
"contrasting to Tintern Abbey" |
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"You have much gold upon your head
They answered all together:
Buy from us with a golden curl
she clipped a precious golden lock,
and dropped a tear more rare than pearl,
Then sucked their fruit globes fair or red. |
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Christina Rossetti
Goblin Market
Eroticism is an allegory for women giving up morals to fit into a patriarical society. Here we see the exchange of something that makes her "a proper woman" to taste the forbidden fruit of a market economy. |
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"she no more swept the house,
tended the fowls or cows,
Fetched honey, kneaded cakes of wheat,
Brought water from the brook:
But sat down listless in the chimney nook
and would not eat. |
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Christina Rossetti
Goblin Market
This shows the "angel of the house" motif. In other words once laura sins by eating the fruit which is an allegory for becoming part of the market economy, she stops acting as a proper woman. |
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| "If minister had been no more than a mathematician, the prefect would have been under no need to give me this check. Had been no more than a poet, I think it probable he would have foiled us all. I knew him however, as both mathematician and poet." |
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The purloined letter
Edgar Allen Poe
main theme of poetic thought versus math thought
good readers vs. bad readers
math people have no imagination
they only look at small details, fail to see big picture
has romantic ideas. |
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| "There is a game of puzzles," he resumed, "Which is played upon a map, a party playing requires another to find a given word- the name of a town, rive, state, or empire, any word, in short upon the motley and perplexed place of the chart. A novice in the game generally seeks to embarrass his opponents by giving them minutely lettered names; but the adept selects such words that stretch, in large letters, from one end of the cart to the other. " |
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The Purloined Letter
Edgar Allen Poe
Main theme is good reader vs. Bad reader
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Poet vs. Math
Idea that mathematicians make everything too scientific and cant see big picture because they have no imagination. |
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Why preyest thou upon the poet's heart,
vulture whose wings are dull realities? |
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Sonnet to science
Edgar Allen Poe
science vs. Poets
Science has no imagination
ironic because sonnet form is very calculated
this is romantic because it has anxiety of science and the love of the natural world |
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"Futile-the winds-
to a heart in port-
Done with the compass-
done with the chart! |
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Emily dickenson
Wild Nights
sexual analogy for one night stands
ambiguity of the storm in the rest of the poem
no compass or chart = heart doesn't need direction |
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"Though I than he- may longer live
He longer must-than i-
For I have but the power to kill,
without-the power to die- |
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Emily Dickinson
My life has stood a loaded gun
theme of unused potential vs. potential
possibly a long allegory for a female poet possessed by a masculine idea of poetry
has a metaphysical conceit
a symbiotic relationship |
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"And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back." |
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The Road not taken
Robert Frost
A satire on people that believe in "the road less taken" here we see the fact that both roads are the same.. so there was really no difference in what road he took. |
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"It took dominion everywhere
The jar was gray and bare
It did not give of bird of bush
Like nothing else in Tennessee |
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Anecdote of a jar
Wallace Stephens
Its an update of ode to a Grecian urn. Makes fun of romanticism because there is a disruption of the romantic idea of universal unity.
The jar is like a vacuum or lifeless pocket. There is no aesthetic beauty like the urn. Therefore saying there is no universal truth (before it was beauty.) |
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"We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf,
my mothers countenance
could not unfrown itself |
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My papas Waltz
Theodore Rothke
ambiguity in relation to his relationship with his father,
positive and negative images
It has 3/4 meter like the timing of a waltz with some disruption.
slant rhyme
used effectively as a pause |
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"I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call
and slowly I would rise and dress
fearing the chronic angers of that house" |
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Robert Hayden
Those winter Sundays
Chaos within structure
from the outside looking in he sees there was structure
strained family relationship
The use of hard C sounds to represent cracking joints and fire. |
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| "Children were more respectful to their native states and their parents and everything else. People did right then. Oh look at that cute little Pickinanny! she said and pointed to a negro child standing in the door of a shack." |
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A Good Man is Hard to Find
Flannery O'connor
Grandmother romanticizes out south and that is undermined. We see that in this scene where she says people were more respectful and then disrespects a black child with a racial slur. Much like Blanches character in a streetcar named desire. |
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| "I was also tired of learning and reciting poems in the praise of daffodils . |
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The day they burned the books
Jean Rhys
Here we see the narrator pushing england (the home country) away because daffodils are an english flower. This entire story is very much about identity. The books are a symbol of england which is why the mother burns them. Eddy loves the books because they represent both parents. Mom in that she is an intellectual and dad in the idea that they were his books and hes english. main theme is colonialism versus colonists. |
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| The view or theory that the self is the only object of real knowledge, or the only thing that is really existent; egoism—intense view of the self |
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| The idea that all knowledge is derived from sensory perception. (The human’s ability to create a reality for himself) |
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