2024 world lit final

Archetype

Typical images, characters, narrative designs, and themes present in all literature.

Characterization

The means by which an author develops a character

Romanticism

A style of writing that appeals to the emotions

Characteristics of romanticism

Return to nature and belief in the goodness of humanity

Nationalistic pride

Exaltation of the senses and emotions over Eason and intellect

Importance of the individual, the unique, or the eccentric (romantic hero, rejection of absolute systems)

Lyric poetry*

A short poem with one speaker who expresses thought and feeling

Elegy

Song or poem composed to lament the dead

Ode

Poem written for a particular subject or occasion

Conceit

An elaborate metaphor

Anaphora

Repetition of the same word or phrases at the start of a line of poetry

Caesura

Strong pause in a line of poetry (usually indicated by a dash)

Surrealism

The artistic and literary movement in which realistic people, objects, or events are portrayed in an unreal or dreamlike way

Personification

A figure of speech that endows ideas, abstractions, or inanimate objects with human form

Allusion

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

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Instructor

Class/period

Due date

Chaim Potok

"The Chosen"

Orthodox Jew

Theme: conflict between secular and religions

Yehuda Amichai

"Jerusalem"

“Tourists”

“The Diameter of a Bomb”

“A pace like that”

Revolutionary change in poetry's language

Creation of modern Israeli poetry

Dahlia Ravikovitch

"Pride"

Called a central pillar of Hebrew lyrics poetry

Some thinks her the greatest modern Hebrew poet at all time

Saadi Youssef

"Occupation 1943"

One of the pioneers of contemporary Arabic poetry

Born in Iraq

John Cage

4'33''

Surrealism in music

Music naturally captures the unconscious

Nellie Sachs

"Chorus of the Rescued"

Work speaks of the suffering of Jews, relationships of the dead and the living, fate of innocence in the face of evil

Poetry is very modern, but uses metaphors and languages of the Old Testament

Career as poet began in her 50's

Nazim Hikmet

"Cucumber"

Tried to deporting poetry by giving up on traditional forms

Romantic style of poetry

Salvador Dali

Surrealism in Art

"Persistence of Memory"

"The average Bureaucrat"

Edmond Rostand

Called one of the great Roman dramatists

Wealth allowed him to write against popular literary fashion of Realism

Cyrano de Bergerac is considered his masterpiece

Sappho

Ancient Greek lyrical poet- referred to as "The Poetess"

one of the first lyric poets

Bulk of poetry was well-known and greatly admired

Immense reputation endured with surviving fragments

Political turbulence led to her exile from her hometown

Exiled to Sicily, eventually returned home

Cicero records that a statue of Sappho was in Syracuse

Fragment 98 indicated she had a daughter

Fragment 58 indicated she lived into old age

"Pride"

Dahlia Ravikovitch

Pride keeps us away from what God intends us to do with emotion

"Biko"

Peter Gabriel

Elegy

Steven Bantu Biko

Anti apartheid

"Occupation 1943"

Saadi Youssef

The danger of dependence: you lose your identity, culture, and independence, and you don’t know how to rule your own country by yourself

"Half a Day"

Naguib Mahfouz

Surrealism

Time passed quickly, appreciate the moment we have right now

4'33''

John Cage

Surrealism in music

Surrealists believe that music naturally captures the unconscious

"Tourists"

Yehuda Amichai

It is human beings that make the places meaningful

He wants people to notice Jerusalem but he wants them to treat people here as human beings

"Jerusalem"

Yehuda Amichai

Everyone wants peace and hopes the end of separation

"His Day is Done"

Maya Angelou

Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)

Elegy

"Cucumber"

Nazim Hikmet

The circumstances haven't changed, but darkness will finally come to an end. Cucumber is a reminder of the end of darkness

John Updike

“Ex Basketball Player”

Christian

Writes with the voice of a rememberer

Wislawa Szymborska

“Some like poetry”

“Teenager”

Called the “Mozart of Poetry“

Poet of “I don’t know”

Get lyric poems are deceptively simple

“Teenager”

Wislawa Szymborska

Our views and perspectives changes as we grow up

“Some like poetry”→ but we can’t judge them

“Half a day”→ surrealism

“Some like poetry”

Wislawa Szymborska

Judgement→ we have no right to judge someone’s favorite things

“Ex basketball player”

John Updike

The present is all you have, don’t hold on to your dreams, plans can change, give God room to work.

“Small vases from Hebron”

Naomi Shihab Nye

Sometimes we don’t see people until tragic happens, we might know a home is destroyed but we won’t know the people there.

We should talk about the people affected, not just where and when it happened.

“The diameter of the bomb”

Yehuda Amichai

Violence affects everyone

“The chosen”

Chaim Potok

Themes: the importance of relationships. Difficulty of growing up. Conflict between tradition and modernity

“No painter could portray him. Jacques Callot might have found place for him in some mad masque Bizarre, excessive and extravagant.”

Ragueneau

Describing cyrano’s nose

“I must go! A hundred against one man! Cowards all! To leave her here! And he-! But I must save Ligniere.”

Christian

“When it bleeds, ‘tis the Red Sea! And what a sign for a perfumery!”

Cyrano dramatic

His nose

“I wear my decorations in my mind. Clothes make the man, and so I have to be more careful if less vain.”

Cyrano

“With whom I am in love? Reflect, my friend. This nose which always is ahead of me by fifteen minutes, scarcely will allow the dream of being cherished by a frump. So whom do I adore?- you might have guessed- obviously, the fairest of the fair.”

Cyrano

“I long for Cleopatra- do I look like Caesar?”

Cyrano

“But you wit! Your bravery! The girl who offered you your light repast did not find you unbearable.”

Le Bret

“I’ve made a brand new recipe in rhyme.”

Ragueneau

“Then i thought how strong and fin you were- brave and invincible- whipping that lording, beating off those brutes0 i thought- i hoped- if you- whom all men fear-“

Roxane

“I have shown more since.”

Cyrano

“Yet I scored to be the parasitic ivy. I will climb slowly, uncertainly, and so perhaps to no great height. But i will climb alone.”

Cyrano

“For I am one of those who cannot talk of love. I tremble and I feel- but words refuse to come.”

Christian

“And we will make- between the two of us- one paragon, one hero of romance!”

Cyrano

“Cousin, i do not like your tone. It’s sharp and skeptical- just like a man. Because a person has a handsome face you say- or you imply- he is a fool.”

Roxane

“For the first time, and on the very day of my departure, you have a kind and tender word for me.”

De Guiche

“I’ve learned enough. I’m tired of borrowed words and fancy phrases; of acting out a part, trembling with fear, at first it was a novelty.”

Christian

“What makes you think i don’t know how to talk? Am i so stupid? Well, then, you shall see! It’s true, my friend, I’ve learned a lot from you, but instinct tells a man what he should say- and how to take a woman in his arms!”

Christian

“And then… a quarter of an hour has passed. A marriage has been made- and you are free.”

Cyrano

“But none can boast like you- and so I serve my king by serving, at the same time, and old grudge.”

De Guiche

“A tear? Oh yes. Poets are their own victims. They are caught in their own web of words.”

Cyrano

“Pardon me for the wrong i did our love in loving you because you were so fair.”

Roxane

“She loves my soul and nothing but my soul.”

Christian

“Yes. I must be. Loved for myself- just that- or not at all… im going to see what’s happening out there, were the line ends. You stay here. I’ll return. And when i do- but, meanwhile, speak to her and let her choose between us.”

Christian