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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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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
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