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English
10th Grade
05/29/2011

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Term
Carpe Diem
Definition

"seize the day"

examples:

"Song" by Wroth

"To his coy mistress" by Marvell

"The Bait" and "The Flea" by Donne

"The nymphs reply to the shepherd to his love" by Marlowe

"To the virgins, to make much of time" by Herrick

Term
pastoral
Definition

protraying urban life idealistically within a work of literature

 

used in carpe diem poems

Term
Romanticism
Definition

Refers to a movement in art, literature, and music during the 19th century

 

Characterized by the 5I's

Term
Duality
Definition

Comparing two like things on different ends of the spectrum

Example: light and dark

Term
Metaphysical poetry
Definition

more concerned with intellect rather then feeling

 

Literary devices:

crazy metaphors

ambiguity

paradox

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Mock pastoral
Definition
Saying or insulting the pastoral
Term
scatological humor
Definition

Gross humor using bottlely functions to release tension

 

Humor swift uses

Term
Neoclassical
Definition

bringing back ancient greek and roman influence

 

nationalism 

Term

diaspora

 

Definition

mass exodus of people from their homeland to pursue better oppurtunities elsewhere

 

population becomes spread all over the globe and many lose touch with relatives

 

many try to forget problems related to heritage 

Term
John Donne
Definition

Wrote "The Bait" and "The Flea"

 

carpe diem poet

Term
Mary Wroth
Definition

Wrote "Song"

 

carpe diem poet

Term
Johnathan Swift
Definition

Wrote "A description of a city shower", "A modest proposal", and "Gulliver's Travels"

(1667-1745)

Born in Dublin to English parents

Spent most of his life in Ireland

Educated at Trinity College

Was a Whig but switch to a Torie

Founded St.Patrick's hospital for the mentally unstable

 

Term
George I
Definition

Figurehead and did everything his advisors told him

 

Represented as emperor in "Gulliver's Travels"

Term
John Keats
Definition

Wrote "Ode to a nightengale"

Romantic poet

Had a lot of death in his life

Died of tuberculosis at age 25

Had an affair with Fanny Brawne

problems with drinking and drugs

Term
Friedman
Definition

Main character in "A wind and a boy"

 

killed by an unlicensed driver which shows colonization and misuse of technology in areas which colonization had once occured

Term
Christopher Marlowe
Definition

Wrote "The passionate Shepherd to his love"

 

Carpe diem poet

Term
Robert Herrick
Definition

Wrote "To the virgins to make much of time"

 

Carpe Diem Poet

Term
Robert Walpole
Definition
Swifts enemy and represented as Flimnap in "Gulliver's Travels"
Term
William Blake
Definition

Wrote "Chimney Sweeper"

Romantic Poet

believed he had visions as a child

did not follow specific religion 

married Catherine Boucher

Claim to have seen his brothers soul ascending into heaven

Term
Lilliput/Lilliputians
Definition
What Swift uses to represent England and english people in "Gulliver's travels" are enemies to Blefuscu or the french
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Little Endians
Definition
Represent the protestants in "Gulliver's Travels"
Term
Dublin
Definition

Where Swift was born

Where St. Patrick's Hospital is 

Where trinity College is

Term
Blefuscu/Blefuscudians
Definition
Represented as the French in "Gulliver's Travels" and enemies to the Lilliputians 
Term
Slamecksans
Definition
Represented Whigs in "Gulliver's Travels"
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