Brit lit unit4 ch2

Imagination

romantics insisted this is the appropriate lens through which to see the world

Sublime

a momentary emotional experience in which readers transcend everyday living

William Wordsworth

published lyrical ballads in 1798; wrote i wandered lonely as a child, the world is too much with us, and tintern abbey

1798

beginning of the romantic era

Enjambment

a poetic device in which lines flow past the end of one verse line and into the next

Caesura

a pause in the middle of a poetic line, usually indicated by punctuation

I wandered lonely as a child

a memory of nature can bring him joy

The world is too much with us

society is corrupting and nature is healing

Tintern abbey

nature is his god; healer, guide, youth and appreciation

Samuel taylor coleridge

contributed to lyrical ballads; wrote the rime of the ancient mariner

Onomatopoeia

words that imitate the sounds being described

Internal rhyme

rhymes within a line

Assonance

the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby stressed syllables

Dynamic character

a character who changes internally

Static character

a character who does not change

George Gordon, Lord Byron

most influential literary contribution was the byronic hero; wrote Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and she walks in beauty

Byronic hero

an antihero who nobly struggles against his interior defects and exterior oppression

Childe harolds pilgrimage

based on byron himself; byronic hero

Spenserian stanza

consists of nine lines; the first eight in iambic pentameter and the ninth in iambic hexameter with a rhyme scheme of ababbcbcc

She walks in beauty

poem about anne wilmot

Percy bysshe shelley

masterpiece was prometheus unbound; wrote ozymandias, england in 1819, and ode to the west wind

Ode

a long lyric poem that is elevated in style, generally serious in theme, and structured with a complex stanza

Terza rima

a verse form in which three line stanzas (tercets) interlock in the following rhyme pattern – aba, bcb, cdc, ded

Ozymandias

human power is fleeting in the face of time and nature

situational irony

contrasts the leaders pride with the decay and ruin that the statue is now in

narrator, traveler, ozymandias

three voices in ozymandias

England in 1819

criticizes corrupt government but offers hope of revolution

Ode to the west wind

a prayer to nature; nature destroys and preserves

John Keats

had a theme of tragic beauty; wrote to autumn, ode on a grecian urn, and when i have fears

Aestheticism

devotion to beauty as the highest human concern

To autumn

personification; autumns song is just as beautiful as springs, it is just different

Ode on a grecian urn

permanence and beauty can be achieved through art

When i have fears

dying; he is fearful of not achieving things he wants to