Araby essay

The narrator learned to be more realistic in life, and not to be carried away by his own fantasies. He put all his energy in what might happen at Araby, in all the magical things that might be there, but didn't accept the reality of the situation. He thought that the world is was romantic place, and the places he have yet to go to would welcome him with open arms and sweep him away with its wonder. He realizes that the world, or more speficly Araby, isn't as crack up to be as he once believed. The narrator arrives at the bazaar only to encounter flowered teacups and English accents, not the freedom of the enchanting East. As the bazaar closes down, he realizes that Mangan’s sister will fail his expectations as well, and that his desire for her is actually only a vain wish for change.
"Araby" is a coming-of-age. The boy narrator lived his life as one does when innocent and unaware. He played with his friends and had a carefree personality. His innocence was tainted with when his dreams were crushed. Before he had no burdens, but after a visit to Araby the heavy weight of knowledge was put upon him. He is awakened to the fast-pace, self-indulgent, and tedious lives of those in Dublin and that that awaits him.

literary responses

I don't believe the opposite of love is control. When you love someone in some aspects you may control them, but if you control someone that doesn't mean you love or don't them. The fact is, control can have absolutely nothing to do with love, and there it is not its opposite.
I believe the opposite of love is disinterest. Love is an extreme emotion and so feeling not emotions at all for someone is feeling the opposite of someone who loves that person. Some would think hate as the opposite of love, but hate is an extreme emotion. It isn't really opposite because if someone was hanging of a cliff the person who hates you would probably push you over, the person who loves you would probably pull you up, but the person who doesn't care would do nothing.


When I hear the word "hawk", I think of "bird of prey". Hawks seek their food from the skies, soaring down when they spot something to prey on. Hawks are animals that dominates what ever comes to him. Hawks are bold and daring and have no regard for anyone but them selves.

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page 839: The Mariner suddenly starts to see a lighthouse, a kirk, and hills; his home country.
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The Modern and Postmodern Periods (1901- Present)

1. "Yesterday, we split the atom...And because of this, the great dream and the great nightmare of
centuries of human thought have taken flesh and walk beside us all, day and night".
- Doris Lessing, from "The Small, Personal Voice"
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2. World War II and the Loss of the Empire: The aggression of Germany and Japan led inevitably to
World War II. When Hitler’s armies overran Europe, the English stood defiantly alone, shielded by the English Channel and the Royal Air Force. It was, Winston Churchill said, "their finest hour".
*In 1942, Russia blunted the German advance, America was in the war and the tide turned against the aggressors. After nearly six years of struggle, England emerged from the war victorious, battered, and impoverished.
* England's former colonies became independent colonies. The Indian subcontinent, where Gandhi had led an independence movement, was divided into the nations of India and Pakistan in 1947.
* The imperial British lion gave a dying gasp in 1956 when Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt to keep the control of the Suez Canal. However, the United States intervened, the Egyptians kept the Canal, and British troops came home to a country ashamed of its government's actions.
* Suez was forgotten in the cultural upheaval in 1960s, when British fashion and British rock musicians carried the flag around the world in a kind of cultural conquest. Also, writers from England's former colonies were engaged in their own re-conquest, enriching English literature.
* As the century closed, the violence in Northern Ireland seemed to be ending. Also, England pondered its involvement with Europe, not accepting the common currency, the Euro, but cooperating in a
drilling a tunnel under the English Channel, which joined England to the Continent. Do Sir Edward Grey's words still have a prophetic ring? Many thought the lamps came on again when the Berlin Wall fell. However, countries cobbled together in the aftermath of World War I- Yugoslavia and Iraq- have been the sites of bitter conflict.
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3. Vocabulary:
*generation- noun. all of the people born and living at the same time
*materialism- noun. Belief in comfort, pleasure, and wealth as the highest values
*colonial- adj. of or relating to the colony or colonies of a mother country
*propriety- noun. Display of proper manners or behavior
*aristocracy- noun. Ruling class; nobility
*fascism- noun. Type of government ruled by one party, which puts down all opposition
*inclusive- adj. tending to include; taking everything into account
*evocative- adj. calling up a particular image or reaction
*allusions- noun. Indirect references
4. Women and Writers: The work of Virginia Woolf revealed a new freedom that women were finding in literature as well. Woolf's experimental fiction broke new ground, and her nonfiction explored the social
conditions that would help women succeed in the arts.
* The bicycle as product and the right to vote as principle were part of the century-long process of loosening the rigid rules of class, propriety, and morality that bound the Victorians. this process applied to such areas as access to higher education, health care, marriage laws and customs for ordinary people and monarchy, home ownerships, pensions, and working conditions.



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5. Music and Literature in the Sixties: Things were at their brightest in the next decade: the Swinging Sixties. Plato said: "When the modes of music change, the walls of the city are shaken". The walls were rocked by The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Although not as famous as these songwriters and singers, poets like Ted Hughes and peter Redgrove nevertheless opened their minds and their styles to a wide range of new influences.
*The pendulum slowed in the eighties. Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female prime minister of Britain, reversed many of the economic changes of the previous twenty-five years. However, there could be no reversing the social changes. Early in her administration, the army and navy crushed Argentina's attempt to seize the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. This was the final flick of the imperial lion's tail.
__________________________________________________________________________________
6. George Orwell: More Relevant than Ever!-
Big Brother, Newspeak, doublethink are words that probably sound familiar because you hear them frequently. They were all coined in the 1940s by British author George Orwell for his novel 1984 (published in 1949). After World War II, Orwell was alarmed by a trend toward repressive totalitarian rule. Believing that language is the first weapon dictators use to seize power, he employed his own words as a warning. In the futuristic tyranny portrayed in his novel, words are used to obscure and destroy meaning:
- The official language, Newspeak, has been stripped of meaning
-The tyrannical ruler is deceptively named Big Brother
- Dissenters face torture in the innocently named Room 101
- Citizens are adapt at doublethink the ability to accept blatant contradictions, as in the government declaration "War is Peace".
* Sixty years later, these terms and others coined by Orwell still ring true. In fact, Orwell's own name is used as an adjective, Orwellian to describe this kind of abuse of language. Pundits, reporters, citizens, and bloggers alike use Orwell's words to criticize Orwellian practices. The year 1984 has come and gone, but Orwell's words live on.

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8. Reading Journal: the Lake of Innisfree: The poet declares that he will arise and go to Innisfree, where he will build a small cabin “of clay and wattles made.” There, he will have nine bean-rows and a beehive, and live alone in the glade loud with the sound of bees (“the bee-loud glade”). He says that he will have peace there, for peace drops from “the veils of morning to where the cricket sings.” Midnight there is a glimmer, and noon is a purple glow, and evening is full of linnet’s wings. He declares again that he will arise and go, for always, night and day, he hears the lake water lapping “with low sounds by the shore.” While he stands in the city, “on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,” he hears the sound within himself, “in the deep heart’s core.”
Reading Journal: When You Are Old: The idea of love in age is an ancient one, meant to express the fact that love inheres not merely in youth, but in something deeper and more lasting. Yeats capitalizes "Love," thus personifying the concept, which is a nod to the poem's 16th century roots. Although monotheism had taken over Europe, Greek and Roman gods were very much a part of 16th century consciousness. Yeats's "Love" is a modernization of the ancient figure, Eros.



9. Answer #2 p1141: The "veils of the morning" is a reference of the mists [fog] of early morning. Crickets sing at night. So, Yeats is actually saying that the "peacefulness" of the Innisfree scene lasts from dawn to nightfall. The slow dropping of peace is a contrast of the rural, slow-paced, peaceful life of County Sligo [where the island of Innisfree in the lake of Lough Gill is located] with the fast-paced, turmoil-filled, unpleasantness of the city..

10. Literary Response:
I would personify death as a baby boy. It can represent the end of life while looking like the beginning of life. It would always be a male, because he would represent death while females represent life (they can give birth).
The baby would not be a demon or angel. He would merely be neutral and would stand for people who have not been bonded to heaven or hell since they have just died. With that said, the baby will neither be good or evil, but emotionless and dutiful. He would guide the dead to the their destinations and never be favorable or unfavorable to any of his 'clients'.

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12. Critical Reading 1-6:
1) Yes, I have been moved by my two pet gerbils Lena and Ginny. I find that they are probably one of the most resilient little rodents alive, because no matter what burdens them they always have energy to replenish in.
2) In the second stanza, Yeats admits that it is nineteen years since he first counted the swans on Coole Lake. By emphasizing the word autumn here, he is showing that he views himself as being in the autumn of his years.
3) He remembers that the swans flew away loudly as a group in huge broken circles. This sudden flight disturbed the tranquility of the scene.
4) When he first heard the bell like beat of the swans’ wings he walked more energetically and with a happier heart. Unlike him, the swams have not grown weary and is still energetic and happy with life.
5) The flight might represent his loss of respect for nature and life. It is painful because although he has grown weary, he does not want to be like that.
6) While they have also gone through the 19 years that has passed, the swans are still lively while Yeats is weary where he once wasn't. I think as time goes by people realize that they become filled with more burdens that they once had.


13. Images of Modernism: When you take a photograph, you record and preserve what is happening now. Modernism could be thought of as a complex response to what photographs imply. Some Modernists, such as the American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) and the British poet T.S. Elliot, wrote poetry as if they were taking snapshots of the world and then cutting and pasting them into collages. Elliot celebrated what he called objectivity in poetry. He relied on images, well-chosen and artfully rendered, to encapsulate a feeling or prospective.
On the other hand, the British Modernist novelist Virginia Woolf perfected techniques for conveying an individual’s moment-by moment experience. For Woolf, the mind is like a camera filming continuously. Her writing record what the moment looks like to an individual. A photograph shows us exactly what the world looks like; Woolf suggests that what the world looks like depends on who is looking.

14. Literary Analysis: Modernism was an early twentieth century movement in the arts. The movement responded to the fragmented modern world created by industrialization, rapid transportation and communication, and a feeling of alienation caused by mass society and the growth of cities. Eliot led the movement for Modernism in poetry, which had several features:
- A new objectivity or impersonality in poetry, in which a work is built from images and allusions rather than from direct statements of thoughts and feelings
- A rejection of realistic depictions of life in favor of the use of images for artist effect
- Critical attention to social conditions and the spiritual troubles of modern life.
As you read, look for details that reflect Modernism in Eliot’s poems.

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19. Literary Analysis: Searching for forms suited to modern experience, Modernist writers tested different points of view, perspective from which a story is told.
- A first-person narrator tells his or her own story. With this technique, authors can probe the thoughts of the narrator.
- A third-person narrator tells what happens to others. An omniscient third person has the ability to reveal the thoughts of several characters. A narrator with limited-omniscience sees only into the mind of one or few characters.
-Stream-of-consciousness narration follows the flowing, branching currents of thoughts in a character’s mind.
Writers began using stream-of-consciousness technique under the influence of the emerging science of psychology. As you read, compare and contrast the effects of different forms of narration in other stories.


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23. *Elements of the Short-Story p1216: the short story shares basic narrative elements with the novels
-Plot: a sequence of events that explores characters in conflict. In many modern stories, the plot builds to a crucial moment in which the conflict is altered in some way, but not necessarily resolved.
-Conflict: A struggle between two opposing forces
-Setting; the time and place of the action of the story. Because of their length and focus, short stories often have a single setting.
-Character: a person or creature that participates in the action of the story. Short stories generally have few characters, yet they must be depicted believably and concisely. In many short stories, one main character, or protagonist, develops a conflict that dominates the length of the story. The way in which a writer creates and develops characters is called characterization.
-Theme: the central idea, message, or insight of the story. A short story, usually has a single theme, which may be revealed in a crucial moment of insight or in clues that must be pieced together.
*Narrating a Short Story: Short stories are narrated from a specific vantage point called point of view. Point of view is determined by what type of narrator tells the story. As the voice telling the story, the narrator determines what information is revealed to the reader-what information is left out of the telling. The three commonly used points of view are first person, third-person omniscient, and the third-person limited.
- First Person: the narrator is a character who speaks in the first person, using first-person pronouns- I, me, and we. The reader sees, hears, and knows only what the character sees, hears, and knows and then learns only what the character chooses to reveal.
- Third person: The narrator is not a character in the story, but rather a voice outside the action that speaks using third-person pronouns- he, she, it, or they. A third-person narrator may be either omniscient or limited.
-Third-person omniscient: an all-knowing narrator who can describe everything that happens and may reveal all the characters’ thoughts and feelings. You know the narrator is omniscient when you are aware of the thoughts and feelings of more than one character.
-Third-person limited: a narrator who sees the world through a single character’s eyes and reveals only what he or she is experiencing, thinking, and feeling. That character’s feelings color the whole story.


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37. Reading Journal: The speaker is looking out at Dover beach on the English coast. It is a moonlit night, and he calls his beloved to the window to breathe the sweet night air. He hears the endless roar of the waves flinging pebbles on the shore, the sound suggests eternal sadness. The speaker remarks that ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles long ago heard the same sound and it also reminded him of the ebb and flow of human misery. According to the speaker, the Sea of Faith, once full like the tide, is now retreating to the edges of the earth. The speaker cries out to his beloved, imploring that they be true to one another. Although the world seems beautiful and fresh, the speaker believes it is actually joyless, cruel dark, and uncertain. Conflict and pain, he believes, are unavoidable and people fight without knowing why. Thus there is only consolation and meaning in honest and loving human relationships.
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The Victorian Period
1. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…” – Charles Dickens, from A Tale of Two Cities
2. 1833-1901
3. Two works published in Victoria’s reign proved as powerful as any of the machinery assembled for The Great Exposition. In 1848, as England watched while revolutions convulsed Europe, Karl Marx published The Communist manifesto. This pamphlet warned that there was “a spectre haunting Europe”. That “spectre” was communism, with its prophecy of political revolution. The other book, the work of a gentleman scientist who had seen evidence for biological evolution during his long sea voyage on HMS. Beagle, was On the Origin of Species. Supporters and attackers alike knew that after Charles Darwin’s work, our sense of ourselves and our place in the world would never be the same.
4. Key Historical Theme: Imperial Britain
5. – Under Victoria, Britain’s empire expanded, and Britain celebrated progress, prosperity, and peace.
- Darker stories linked to Britain’s empire included the Irish Potato Famine, widespread poverty at home, and the rise of Germany as a competing imperial power.
6. * An Elegy with Up-to-Dates Themes: Tennyson’s In Memoriam, A.H.H., his elegy for his friend Arthur Hallam, speaks to the problem of belief and doubt that was central to the age. In this poem, Tennyson’s struggles to come to terms with Hallam’s death at the age of twenty-two, asking whether a benevolent God or an indifferent nature directs the universe. About ten years before Darwin, he writes of “nature red in tooth and claw”. One of the most impressive aspects of this elegy is its engagement with the latest scientific discoveries. Be the end of the poem, however, Tennyson has regained his belief and declares his faith in a divine plan for the universe.
• The Sonnet: In Sonnet 43, Elizabeth Barrett Browning states her belief in the power of love, more positively than Matthew Arnold. She adds a distinctively Victorian note of piety, reverence, and religious belief to her love poem.
*The Dramatic Monologue:
*The Novel
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11. Reading Summary: In Part I, the speaker sets the scene and introduces the plot: The Lady, on her remote island, is under a curse. She must keep to her weaving and ignore Camelot. However, she is attracted by the reflections of the active world that she sees in her mirror. At the sight of two lovers, she declares that she is “half sick of shadows”. In Part II, the shining figure of Sir Lancelot pierces the island gloom, and the lonely lady chooses to leave her retreat and follow him. The mirror cracks. She then places her name upon the prow of a boat and flows toward Camelot, singing. By the time she reaches the first house, she is dead. Moved, the lords and ladies stare at her lifeless form, while Lancelot utters a prayer.

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The Modern and Postmodern Periods (1901- Present)

1. "Yesterday, we split the atom...And because of this, the great dream and the great nightmare of
centuries of human thought have taken flesh and walk beside us all, day and night".
- Doris Lessing, from "The Small, Personal Voice"
__________________________________________________________________
2. World War II and the Loss of the Empire: The aggression of Germany and Japan led inevitably to
World War II. When Hitler’s armies overran Europe, the English stood defiantly alone, shielded by the English Channel and the Royal Air Force. It was, Winston Churchill said, "their finest hour".
*In 1942, Russia blunted the German advance, America was in the war and the tide turned against the aggressors. After nearly six years of struggle, England emerged from the war victorious, battered, and impoverished.
* England's former colonies became independent colonies. The Indian subcontinent, where Gandhi had led an independence movement, was divided into the nations of India and Pakistan in 1947.
* The imperial British lion gave a dying gasp in 1956 when Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt to keep the control of the Suez Canal. However, the United States intervened, the Egyptians kept the Canal, and British troops came home to a country ashamed of its government's actions.
* Suez was forgotten in the cultural upheaval in 1960s, when British fashion and British rock musicians carried the flag around the world in a kind of cultural conquest. Also, writers from England's former colonies were engaged in their own re-conquest, enriching English literature.
* As the century closed, the violence in Northern Ireland seemed to be ending. Also, England pondered its involvement with Europe, not accepting the common currency, the Euro, but cooperating in a
drilling a tunnel under the English Channel, which joined England to the Continent. Do Sir Edward Grey's words still have a prophetic ring? Many thought the lamps came on again when the Berlin Wall fell. However, countries cobbled together in the aftermath of World War I- Yugoslavia and Iraq- have been the sites of bitter conflict.
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4. Vocabulary:
*generation- noun. all of the people born and living at the same time
*materialism- noun. belief in comfort, pleasure, and wealth as the highest values
*colonial- adj. of or relating to the colony or colonies of a mother country
*propriety- noun. display of proper manners or behavior
*aristocracy- noun. ruling class; nobility
*fascism- noun. type of government ruled by one party, which puts down all opposition
*inclusive- adj. tending to include; taking everything into account
*evocative- adj. calling up a particular image or reaction
*allusions- noun. indirect references
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5. Women and Writers: The work of Virginia Woolf revealed a new freedom that women were finding in literature as well. Woolf's experimental fiction broke new ground, and her nonfiction explored the social
conditions that would help women succeed in the arts.
* The bicycle as product and the right to vote as principle were part of the century-long process of loosening the rigid rules of class, propriety, and morality that bound the Victorians. this process applied to such areas as access to higher education, health care, marriage laws and customs for ordinary people and monarchy, home ownerships, pensions, and working conditions.
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5. Things were at their brightest in the next decade: the Swinging Sixties. Plato said: "When the modes of music change, the walls of the city are shaken". The walls were rocked by The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Although not as famous as these songwriters and singers, poets like Ted Hughes and peter Redgrove nevertheless opened their minds and their styles to a wide range of new influences.
*The pendulum slowed in the eighties. Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female prime minister of Britain, reversed many of the economic changes of the previous twenty-five years. However, there could be no reversing the social changes. Early in her administration, the army and navy crushed Argentina's attempt to seize the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. This was the final flick of the imperial lion's tail.
__________________________________________________________________________________
6. George Orwell: More Relevant than Ever!-
Big Brother, Newspeak, doublethink are words that probably sound familiar because you hear them frequently. They were all coined in the 1940s by British author George Orwell for his novel 1984 (published in 1949). After World War II, Orwell was alarmed by a trend toward repressive totalitarian rule. Believing that language is the first weapon dictators use to seize power, he employed his own words as a warning. In the futuristic tyranny portrayed in his novel, words are used to obscure and destroy meaning:
- The official language, Newspeak, has been stripped of meaning
-The tyrannical ruler is deceptively named Big Brother
- Dissenters face torture in the innocently named Room 101
- Citizens are adapt at doublethink the ability to accept blatant contradictions, as in the government declaration "War is Peace".
* Sixty years later, these terms and others coined by Orwell still ring true. In fact, Orwell's own name is used as an adjective, Orwellian to describe this kind of abuse of language. Pundits, reporters, citizens, and bloggers alike use Orwell's words to criticize Orwellian practices. The year 1984 has come and gone, but Orwell's words live on.
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13. Images of Modernism: When you take a photograph, you record and preserve what is happening now. Modernism could be thought of as a complex response to what photographs imply. Some Modernists, such as the American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) and the British poet T.S. Elliot, wrote poetry as if they were taking snapshots of the world and then cutting and pasting them into collages. Elliot celebrated what he called objectivity in poetry. He relied on images, well-chosen and artfully rendered, to encapsulate a feeling or prospective.
On the other hand, the British Modernist novelist Virginia Woolf perfected techniques for conveying an individual’s moment-by moment experience. For Woolf, the mind is like a camera filming continuously. Her writing record what the moment looks like to an individual. A photograph shows us exactly what the world looks like; Woolf suggests that what the world looks like depends on who is looking.
14. Literary Analysis: Modernism was an early twentieth century movement in the arts. The movement responded to the fragmented modern world created by industrialization, rapid transportation and communication , and a feeling of alienation caused by mass society and the growth of cities. Eliot led the movement for Modernism in poetry, which had several features:
- A new objectivity or impersonality in poetry, in which a work is built from images and allusions rather than from direct statements of thoughts and feelings
- A rejection of realistic depictions of life in favor of the use of images for artist effect
- Critical attention to social conditions and the spiritual troubles of modern life.
As you read, look for details that reflect Modernism in Eliot’s poems.
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19. Literary Analysis: Searching for forms suited to modern experience, Modernist writers tested different points of view, perspective from which a story is told.
- A first-person narrator tells his or her own story. With this technique, authors can probe the thoughts of the narrator.
- A third-person narrator tells what happens to others. An omniscient


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37. Reading Journal: The speaker is looking out at Dover beach on the English coast. It is a moonlit night, and he calls his beloved to the window to breathe the sweet night air. He hears the endless roar of the waves flinging pebbles on the shore, the sound suggests eternal sadness. The speaker remarks that ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles long ago heard the same sound and it also reminded him of the ebb and flow of human misery. According to the speaker, the Sea of Faith, once full like the tide, is now retreating to the edges of the earth. The speaker cries out to his beloved, imploring that they be true to one another. Although the world seems beautiful and fresh, the speaker believes it is actually joyless, cruel dark, and uncertain. Conflict and pain, he believes, are unavoidable and people fight without knowing why. Thus there is only consolation and meaning in honest and loving human relationships.
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23. This literary ballad is a harrowing exploration of the torrments that guilt can inflict on the human soul. The principal characters ar ethe ancient Mariner and the wedding Guest to whom
the Mariner tells his tale. The mariner beings by describing how his square-masted ship set sail under a good wind and traveled toward the South pole. on the way, he commited the senseless crime of killing an albatross that the sailors believed was a good omen. The Mariner describes the punishments that rained down on him, including the death of his hsipmates, the haunting of the ship by supernatural forces, and his having too wander the earth retelling his tale to passing strangers for the rest of his life.

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The Modern and Postmodern Periods (1901- Present)

1. "Yesterday, we split the atom...And because of this, the great dream and the great nightmare of
centuries of human thought have taken flesh and walk beside us all, day and night".
- Doris Lessing, from "The Small, Personal Voice"
__________________________________________________________________
2. World War II and the Loss of the Empire: The aggression of Germany and Japan led inevitably to
World War II. When Hitler’s armies overran Europe, the English stood defiantly alone, shielded by the English Channel and the Royal Air Force. It was, Winston Churchill said, "their finest hour".
*In 1942, Russia blunted the German advance, America was in the war and the tide turned against the aggressors. After nearly six years of struggle, England emerged from the war victorious, battered, and impoverished.
* England's former colonies became independent colonies. The Indian subcontinent, where Gandhi had led an independence movement, was divided into the nations of India and Pakistan in 1947.
* The imperial British lion gave a dying gasp in 1956 when Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt to keep the control of the Suez Canal. However, the United States intervened, the Egyptians kept the Canal, and British troops came home to a country ashamed of its government's actions.
* Suez was forgotten in the cultural upheaval in 1960s, when British fashion and British rock musicians carried the flag around the world in a kind of cultural conquest. Also, writers from England's former colonies were engaged in their own re-conquest, enriching English literature.
* As the century closed, the violence in Northern Ireland seemed to be ending. Also, England pondered its involvement with Europe, not accepting the common currency, the Euro, but cooperating in a
drilling a tunnel under the English Channel, which joined England to the Continent. Do Sir Edward Grey's words still have a prophetic ring? Many thought the lamps came on again when the Berlin Wall fell. However, countries cobbled together in the aftermath of World War I- Yugoslavia and Iraq- have been the sites of bitter conflict.
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4. Vocabulary:
*generation- noun. all of the people born and living at the same time
*materialism- noun. belief in comfort, pleasure, and wealth as the highest values
*colonial- adj. of or relating to the colony or colonies of a mother country
*propriety- noun. display of proper manners or behavior
*aristocracy- noun. ruling class; nobility
*fascism- noun. type of government ruled by one party, which puts down all opposition
*inclusive- adj. tending to include; taking everything into account
*evocative- adj. calling up a particular image or reaction
*allusions- noun. indirect references
______________________________________________________________________________
5. Women and Writers: The work of Virginia Woolf revealed a new freedom that women were finding in literature as well. Woolf's experimental fiction broke new ground, and her nonfiction explored the social
conditions that would help women succeed in the arts.
* The bicycle as product and the right to vote as principle were part of the century-long process of loosening the rigid rules of class, propriety, and morality that bound the Victorians. this process applied to such areas as access to higher education, health care, marriage laws and customs for ordinary people and monarchy, home ownerships, pensions, and working conditions.
____________________________________________________________________________________
5. Things were at their brightest in the next decade: the Swinging Sixties. Plato said: "When the modes of music change, the walls of the city are shaken". The walls were rocked by The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Although not as famous as these songwriters and singers, poets like Ted Hughes and peter Redgrove nevertheless opened their minds and their styles to a wide range of new influences.
*The pendulum slowed in the eighties. Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female prime minister of Britain, reversed many of the economic changes of the previous twenty-five years. However, there could be no reversing the social changes. Early in her administration, the army and navy crushed Argentina's attempt to seize the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. This was the final flick of the imperial lion's tail.
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6. George Orwell: More Relevant than Ever!-
Big Brother, Newspeak, doublethink are words that probably sound familiar because you hear them frequently. They were all coined in the 1940s by British author George Orwell for his novel 1984 (published in 1949). After World War II, Orwell was alarmed by a trend toward repressive totalitarian rule. Believing that language is the first weapon dictators use to seize power, he employed his own words as a warning. In the futuristic tyranny portrayed in his novel, words are used to obscure and destroy meaning:
- The official language, Newspeak, has been stripped of meaning
-The tyrannical ruler is deceptively named Big Brother
- Dissenters face torture in the innocently named Room 101
- Citizens are adapt at doublethink the ability to accept blatant contradictions, as in the government declaration "War is Peace".
* Sixty years later, these terms and others coined by Orwell still ring true. In fact, Orwell's own name is used as an adjective, Orwellian to describe this kind of abuse of language. Pundits, reporters, citizens, and bloggers alike use Orwell's words to criticize Orwellian practices. The year 1984 has come and gone, but Orwell's words live on.
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13. Images of Modernism: When you take a photograph, you record and preserve what is happening now. Modernism could be thought of as a complex response to what photographs imply. Some Modernists, such as the American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) and the British poet T.S. Elliot, wrote poetry as if they were taking snapshots of the world and then cutting and pasting them into collages. Elliot celebrated what he called objectivity in poetry. He relied on images, well-chosen and artfully rendered, to encapsulate a feeling or prospective.
On the other hand, the British Modernist novelist Virginia Woolf perfected techniques for conveying an individual’s moment-by moment experience. For Woolf, the mind is like a camera filming continuously. Her writing record what the moment looks like to an individual. A photograph shows us exactly what the world looks like; Woolf suggests that what the world looks like depends on who is looking.
14. Literary Analysis: Modernism was an early twentieth century movement in the arts. The movement responded to the fragmented modern world created by industrialization, rapid transportation and communication , and a feeling of alienation caused by mass society and the growth of cities. Eliot led the movement for Modernism in poetry, which had several features:
- A new objectivity or impersonality in poetry, in which a work is built from images and allusions rather than from direct statements of thoughts and feelings
- A rejection of realistic depictions of life in favor of the use of images for artist effect
- Critical attention to social conditions and the spiritual troubles of modern life.
As you read, look for details that reflect Modernism in Eliot’s poems.
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19. Literary Analysis: Searching for forms suited to modern experience, Modernist writers tested different points of view, perspective from which a story is told.
- A first-person narrator tells his or her own story. With this technique, authors can probe the thoughts of the narrator.
- A third-person narrator tells what happens to others. An omniscient

the modern and Postmoern periods English

The Modern and

Postmodern Periods (1901-

Present)
1. "Yesterday, we split the

atom...And because of this,

the great dream and the

great nightmare of

centuries of human

thought have taken flesh

and walk beside us all,

day and night".
- Doris Lessing, from "The

Small, Personal Voice"
2. World War II and the

Loss of the Empire: The

aggression of germany

and Japan led inevitably to

World War II. When

Hilter's armies overran

Europe, the English stood

defiantly alone, shielded

by the English Channel

and the Royal Air Force. It

was, Winston Churchill

said, "their finest hour".
*In 1942, Russia

blunted the German

advance, America was in

the war and the tide

turned against the

aggressors. After nearly

six years of struggle,

England emerged form the

war victorious, battered,

and impoverished.
* England's former

colonies became

independent colonies. the

Indian subcontinent,

where Gandhi had led an

independence movement,

was divided into the

nations of India and

Pakistan in 1947.
* The imperial British

lion gave a dying gasp in

1956 when Britain, France,

and Israel invaded Egypt

to keep the control of the

Suez Canal. However, the

United States intervened,

the Egyptians kept the

Canal, and British troops

came home to a country

ashamed of its

government's actions.
* Suez was forgotten in

the cultural upheaval in

1960s, when British

fashion and British rock

musicians carried the flag

around the world in a

kind of cultural conquest.

Also, writers from

England's former colonies

were engaged in their own

re-conquest, enriching

English literature.
* As the century closed,

the violence in Northern

Ireland seemed to be

ending. Also, England

pondered its involvement

with Europe, not accepting

the common currency, the

Euro, but cooperating in a

drilling a tunnel under the

English Channel, which

joined England to the

Continent.
Do Sir Edward Grey's

words still have a

prophetic ring? Many

thought the lamps came

on again when the Berlin

Wall fell. However,

countries cobbled together

in the aftermath of World

War I- Yugoslavia and

Iraq- have been the sites of

bitter conflict.

4. Vocabulary:
*generation- noun. all of

the people born and living

at the same time
*materialism- noun. belief

in comfort, pleasure, and

wealth as the highest

values
*colonial- adj. of or

relating to the colony or

colonies of a mother

country
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*propriety- noun. display

of proper manners or

behavior
*aristocracy- noun. ruling

class; nobility
*facism- noun. type of

government ruled by one

party, which puts down

all opposition
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*inclusive- adj. tending to

include; taking everything

into account
*evocative- adj. calling up

a particular image or

reaction
*allusions- noun. indirect

references

4. Women and Writers:

The work of Virginia

Woolf revealed a new

freedom that women were

finding in literature as

well. Woolf's experimental

fiction broke new ground,

and her nonfiction

explored the social

conditions that wpuld

help women succeed in

the arts.
* The bicycle as product

and the right to vote as

principle were part of the

century-long process of

loosening the rigid rules of

class, propriety, and

morality that bound the

Victorians. this process

applied to such areas as

access to higher education,

health care, marriage laws

and customs for ordinary

people and monarchy,

home ownerships,

pensions, and working

conditions.

5. Things were at their

brightest in the next

decade: the Swinging

Sixties. Plato said: "When

the modes of music

change, the walls of the

city are shaken". The walls

were rocked by The

Beatles and the Rolling

Stones. Although not as

famous as these

songwriters and singers,

poets like Ted Hughes and

peter Redgrove

nevertheless opened their

minds and their styles to a

wide range of new

influences.
*The pendulum slowed

in the eighties. Margaret

Thatcher, the first and

only female prime

minister of Britain,

reversed many of the

economic changes of the

previous twenty-five

years. However, there

could be no reversing the

social changes. Early in

her administration, the

army and navy crushed

Argentina's attempt to

seize the Falkland islands

in the South Atlantic. This

was the final flick of the

imperial lion's tail.

6. george Orwell: More Relevant than Ever!-
Big Brother, Newspeak, doublethink(all italic) are words that probably sound familiar because you hear them frequently. They were all coined in the 1940s by British author george Orwell for his novel 1984(italic) (published in 1949). After World War II, Orwell was alarmed by a trend toward repressive totalitarian rule. Believing that language is the first weapon dictators use to seize power, he employed his own words as a warning. In the futuristic tyranny portrayed in his novel, words ar eused to obscure and destroy meaning:
- The official language, Newspeak (italic), has been stripped of meaning
-The tyrannical ruler is deceptively named Big Brother (italic)
- Dissenters face torture in the innocently named Room 101
- Citizens are adapt at doublethink (italic) the ability to accept blatant contradictions, as in the government declaration "War is Peace".
* Sixty years later, these terms and others coined by Orwell still ring true. In fact, Orwell's own name is used as an adjective, Orwellian (italic), to describe this kind of abuse of language. Pundits, reporters, citizens, and bloggers alike use Orwell's words to criticize Orwellian(italic) practices.. the year 1984 has come and gone, but Orwell's words live on. .

Number 29 and 35 of 1st page Essay

I think my most vivd mental image of war's horror is a picture of a child with a bomb attached to his waist, the timer ticking away. The impressions I've had from seeing image of war from films, picktures, and others is killing, mindless killing of whoever is considered the "enemy". A veteran once told me that everything around you is disaposable and the only two things you have in mind is kill and not being killed.
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29. Essay
Time continues on no matter what happens or who falls within it. The poem of Ozymandias was about the impermance of all things and the relentless march of time. The poem recognises how inevitable it is for everything to fall behind time, how time is more powerful than people or things.
An example of this is when the narrator was describing the sculpted face of Ozymandias. He described the face as half sunk and shattered. I think this tells the readers that even great King Ozymandias became nothing more than dusty ruins and forgotten memories. It's almost as though the King never existed at all.
Another example from the poem of the theme of time is the image of acres of sand that stretches far and wide. I found this when I read, "...The lone and the level of sand stretches far away" at the end of the poem. The image of sand reminds me of how sand is merely rock that has been eroded away, just like how everything will be eroded away in the path of time.
In conclusion, I believe the core theme of the poem "Ozymandias" is the how nothing can outlast time and even when there is nothing left, time will continue to march on.

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The Romantic Period 1798-1832

1. "But oh! that deep Romantic chasm which slanted/ Down the green hill,
athwart a cedarn cover!/ A savage place! A holy and enchanted/ As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted..."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2. In 1807, Robert Fulton launched his steamboat, and, in 1814, George Stephenson built a steal locomotive. Railroads changed the face of England and steamboats shrank oceans. It was the textile industry, however, that was at the forefront of change. Inventions, from the spinning jenny to the power loom, changed the way cloth was woven and moved the weaver from the spinning wheel in the kitchen to the factory beside the river.
Water power first and then coal drove the machines that ran the mills that created the cities in which the workers lived. Wealth no longer depended on land, and workers, separated from the land, realized that they would have to unite in political action. The Reform Bill of 1832, the product of democratic impulses and changing economic conditions, was a first step in extending the right to vote. It increased the voting rolls by 57 percent, but the working class and some members of the lower middle classes were still unable to vote. In 1833, after the period ended, Parliament abolished slavery in the British Empire.


3. Definitions page 720, 722, 726

exotic- adj. foreign; strange or different in a way that is striking
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secular- adj. relating to worldly things as opposed to religion
_______
residential-adj. characterized by private homes
_______
privileged- adj. having rights or advantages denied to others
_______
institution- noun. established law, custom, or practice
_______
industrial- adj. of or connected with industries or manufacturing
_______
conventional- noun usually an adjective, it refers as a noun to whatever follows rules and is not original
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routine- noun. regular, customary procedure
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foibles- noun. small weakness in character

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4. Ideas That Would Not Die- The original message of the Revolution, the one that had thrilled Wordsworth, was that people were to be free in their personal lives and free to choose their government: that all people were equally "citizens". However subsequent actions perverted them, these ideas would not die.
In England, a group of men and women, mostly Quakers, led by William Wilberforce, were determined that one ancient social institution would be abolished. Thanks to them, slavery was ended in England and in the Empire.
The Reform Bill of 1832 is another manifestation of the process of peaceful revolution that transformed England. Behind it was the idea of extending the right to vote. The 1832 bill was a step in a journey that took nearly a century, but in the end gave all citizens voting rights.
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5. The Sonnet- Romantic poets revived the sonnet, which had virtually disappeared after Milton. Wordsworth uses it as a political form in "London, 1802," and Shelley as a visionary form in "Ozymandis" and in "Ode to the West wind," which is made up of linked sonnets.
The Ode- In addition, the Romantics brought to perfection one of the oldest forms of poetry, the ode. Odes were written by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and, most notably, by the 24-year-old Keats.
The Byronic Hero- Lord Byron embodies in his life the spirit of age. A handsome, club-footed aristocrat who scorned the rules of society, he was described as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." Byron created in his person and in his characters the Byronic Hero, mysterious, brooding, and threatening. That hero is the distant ancestor of today's mysterious outsiders, whether in film, literature, or the graphic novel.
The Gothic- Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, influenced by the relatively new tradition of the horror-filed Gothic novel. Frankenstein is the doctor, not the monster, and he acts out the great Romantic theme of going beyond the limit. The novel reveals what happens when a man's obsession makes him unable to imagine the consequences of his action.
Going beyond the limit was yet another expression of the Romantics' drive to escape the everyday, the routine, and the humdrum.
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6. Dialect- It is the language, and particularly the speech habits, of a specific social class, region, or group. A dialect may vary from the standard form of a language in grammar, in pronunciation, and in the use of certain expressions.
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7.
Dominion- noun. rule; authority
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impudence- noun lack of shame; rudeness
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winsome- adj. having a charming appearance or way
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discretion- noun. good judgment; prudence
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inconstantly- adv. changeably; in a fickle way
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10. The speaker uncovers the mouse by
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14. Literature Response: Because I’m somewhat of a lazy person, I would be better off if these paragraphs were about what I wouldn’t do to get what I’m passionate about. However, within me is a strength, an endurance, that can weather a whole lot more than what people expect of me when I really want something. I’ve seen this fierceness in action, last summer infact. I really wanted to get to Memphis to study at the University of Tennessee for the summer and prepare for my senior year of high school. I wanted it so much that I detached myself from my family for the first time in my life, hoped on the Greyhound and rode for 30 consecutive hours, and caught a taxi to my dad’s place in order to visit the University. That was a great summer and I have no regrets with what I endured to capture it.
I would sacrifice a lot to get what I’m passionate about. Some things I would give up is my home life, my friends, and my location. For instance, if I was accepted into a college I would have to give those things up in order to go. I would give it up, because I’m passionate about attending college and kiss my home goodbye in order to go. Things I would not sacrifice are love, family, and freedom. When I say love, I mean a kind that really makes me feel complete. Something like love and freedom isn’t worth sacrificing because those are the main two things people desire most anyway.
15. Simile- comparing two apparently unlike things by using like or as
Metaphor- comparing two apparently unlike things without using like or as
Personification- giving human traits to something nonhuman
Oxymoron- juxtaposing two opposite or contradictory words that reveal an interesting truth
Imagery- Imagery is descriptive language that appeals to the sense of sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell. The term imagery may refer to a literal description, as well as to figurative language that evokes sensory experiences. Examples of imagery include words like green, humming, cold, and peppery.
Sound devices- Use the sounds of language to add a musical quality to poetry
Repetition- repeated use of sounds, words, phrases, or sentences. Poets use repetition for emphasis as well as to create musical effect. There are four popular devices that rely on repetition; alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme, and assonance.
Alliteration- repetition of initial consonant sounds
Consonance- repetition of final vowel sounds
Assonance- repetition of similar vowel sounds
Rhyme- repetition of sounds at ends of words, which are rhymes that occur at the ends of lines.
Onomatopoeia- use of words that imitate sounds- for example, words like ring, boom, and growl
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19. I di



20. Vocabulary:
averred- verb. Stated to be true
Sojourn- verb. To stay for a while
Expiated- verb, atoned for, especially by suffering
reverence- noun. Deep respect
Sinuous- adj. bending; winding
Tumult- noun. Noise; commotion

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25. Vocabulary:
Verge- noun. Edge; rim
Sepulcher- noun. Tomb
Impulse- noun. Force driving forward
Blithe- adj. cheerful
Profuse- adj. abundant; pouring out
Satiety- noun. State of being filled with enough or more than enough
26. Three characteristics of poetic imagery:
-It appeals to any or all of the five sense.
- It sets the tone, the writer’s attitude toward the subject.
- It creates patterns supporting a poem’s theme, or central idea.
27. I think I will be around 30 or so when I hit the prime of my life. Honestly, I plan to be in college until I’m 24 and will be studying the whole time, which is not the most fun thing to do. I will have my career around the age of 25 or so and I’ll be getting used to that so I give it a good 5 years until I get used to that. I think I will be married by then, maybe even supporting a child by then. These are all the things that will most likely make my life happy and they play in the equation when figuring out my prime.
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30. Ode- a lyric poem characterized by heightened emotion, that pays respect to a person or thing, usually directly addressed by the speaker
Pindaric ode- (named for the ancient Greek poet Pindar) uses group of three stanzas, one of which differs in form from the other two. Pindar’s odes celebrated victors at the Olympic games.
Horatian ode- (also called homostrophic), which contains only one type of stanza.
Irregular ode- has no set pattern
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31. Vocabulary:
Ken- noun. Range of sight or knowledge
Teeming- adj. filled to overflowing
Vintage- noun. Wine of fine quality
Gleaned- verb. Collected bit by bit, as when gathering stray grain after a harvest
Requiem- noun. Musical composition honoring the dead
Surmise- noun. Guess or assumption
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34. amiable- adj. friendly; agreeable
Vindication- noun. Act of justification or support of
Fortitude- noun. Courage; strength to endure
Gravity- noun. weight; seriousness
Specious- noun. deceptively attractive or valid; false
Fastidious- adj. particular; difficult to please
35. Iwo Jima.…http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090129193046AAmXTwZ (continue)
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The Victorian Period
1. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…” – Charles Dickens, from A Tale of Two Cities
2. 1833-1901
3. Two works published in Victoria’s reign proved as powerful as any of the machinery assembled for The Great Exposition. In 1848, as England watched while revolutions convulsed Europe, Karl Marx published The Communist manifesto. This pamphlet warned that there was “a spectre haunting Europe”. That “spectre” was communism, with its prophecy of political revolution. The other book, the work of a gentleman scientist who had seen evidence for biological evolution during his long sea voyage on HMS. Beagle, was On the Origin of Species. Supporters and attackers alike knew that after Charles Darwin’s work, our sense of ourselves and our place in the world would never be the same.
4. Key Historical Theme: Imperial Britain
5. – Under Victoria, Britain’s empire expanded, and Britain celebrated progress, prosperity, and peace.
- Darker stories linked to Britain’s empire included the Irish Potato Famine, widespread poverty at home, and the rise of Germany as a competing imperial power.
6. * An Elegy with Up-to-Dates Themes: Tennyson’s In Memoriam, A.H.H., his elegy for his friend Arthur Hallam, speaks to the problem of belief and doubt that was central to the age. In this poem, Tennyson’s struggles to come to terms with Hallam’s death at the age of twenty-two, asking whether a benevolent God or an indifferent nature directs the universe. About ten years before Darwin, he writes of “nature red in tooth and claw”. One of the most impressive aspects of this elegy is its engagement with the latest scientific discoveries. Be the end of the poem, however, Tennyson has regained his belief and declares his faith in a divine plan for the universe.
• The Sonnet: In Sonnet 43, Elizabeth Barrett Browning states her belief in the power of love, more positively than Matthew Arnold. She adds a distinctively Victorian note of piety, reverence, and religious belief to her love poem. Victorian poets were committed to the sonnet as were the Romantics and none more so than Gerard Manley Hopkins. A Catholic convert and Jesuit priest, he experimented with meter, he proclaims his faith in a divine presence in the world.
• The Dramatic Monologue: Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett’s husband, perfected the dramatic monologue. In this poetic form, a character is speaking to a silent listener and in the process revealing more about himself than he realizes. Browning’s strange and chilling speakers are the British cousins of Edgar Allan Poe’s mad narrators in stories like “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”.
• The Novel: The dramatic monologue takes readers into the mind of a character, as does the popular Victorian genre, the novel. This genre was as central to the Victorian period as the drama was to the Elizabethan. Usually published serially in magazines, each new installment of a novel was eagerly awaited by all levels of society. The novel’s social commentary and realistic descriptions presented the Victorians to themselves.
The great theme of these novels is education: the depiction of a hero or heroine learning how to secure a proper place in society.

7. Vocabulary: chrysalis- noun. Third stage of development of a moth or butterfly
Diffusive- adj. tending to spread out
Prosper- verb. Thrive
Waning- verb. Gradually dimming or weakening
Prudence- noun. Careful management of resources; economy
Furrows- noun. Grooves, such as those made by a plow
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10. Reading Check: When Lady Shalott sees Sir Lancelot in the mirror, she looks out the window, even though it is forbidden.
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12.
13. countenance- noun. Face
Officious- adj. meddlesome
Munificence- noun. Lavish generosity
Eludes- verb. Avoids or escapes
Dowry- noun. Property a woman brings to her husband upon marriage
Sullen- adj. brooding; morose; sulky
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15. Reading Check: The duke and his listener are viewing a painting of his first wife who died after three years of marriage.
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22.
23. A novel is a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usually presenting a sequential organization of action and scenes.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/novel
24. monotonous- adj. without variation
Obstinate- adj. stubborn; dogged
Deficient- adj. lacking an essential quality
Adversary- noun. Opponent; enemy
Indignant- adj. outraged; filled with righteous anger
Approbation- noun. Official approval
Etymology- noun. The study of word origins
Syntax- noun the study of sentence structure

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29. Vocabulary- obscure- adj. not easily seen; not generally known
Sundry- adj. various; miscellaneous
Tumult- noun. Noise caused by a crowd
Truculent- adj. cruel, fierce
Comprised- verb. Consisted of; included

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35. Vocabulary:
tranquil- adj. calm; serene; peaceful
Turbid- adj. muddy or cloudy; not clear
Cadence- noun. Measured movement
Dominion- noun. Rule; control
Awe- mixed feeling of reverence, fear, and wonder
Contrite- adj. willing to repent or atone

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40. Reading Check: The speaker is a woman wondering who is digging on her grave. Is it her loved one, her family, or an enemy? She discovers that it is none of them, that each has forgotten her.
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The Victorian Period
1. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…” – Charles Dickens, from A Tale of Two Cities
2. 1833-1901
3. Two works published in Victoria’s reign proved as powerful as any of the machinery assembled for The Great Exposition. In 1848, as England watched while revolutions convulsed Europe, Karl Marx published The Communist manifesto. This pamphlet warned that there was “a spectre haunting Europe”. That “spectre” was communism, with its prophecy of political revolution. The other book, the work of a gentleman scientist who had seen evidence for biological evolution during his long sea voyage on HMS. Beagle, was On the Origin of Species. Supporters and attackers alike knew that after Charles Darwin’s work, our sense of ourselves and our place in the world would never be the same.
4. Key Historical Theme: Imperial Britain
5. – Under Victoria, Britain’s empire expanded, and Britain celebrated progress, prosperity, and peace.
- Darker stories linked to Britain’s empire included the Irish Potato Famine, widespread poverty at home, and the rise of Germany as a competing imperial power.
6. * An Elegy with Up-to-Dates Themes: Tennyson’s In Memoriam, A.H.H., his elegy for his friend Arthur Hallam, speaks to the problem of belief and doubt that was central to the age. In this poem, Tennyson’s struggles to come to terms with Hallam’s death at the age of twenty-two, asking whether a benevolent God or an indifferent nature directs the universe. About ten years before Darwin, he writes of “nature red in tooth and claw”. One of the most impressive aspects of this elegy is its engagement with the latest scientific discoveries. Be the end of the poem, however, Tennyson has regained his belief and declares his faith in a divine plan for the universe.
• The Sonnet: In Sonnet 43, Elizabeth Barrett Browning states her belief in the power of love, more positively than Matthew Arnold. She adds a distinctively Victorian note of piety, reverence, and religious belief to her love poem.

2nd Update

The Romantic Period 1798-1832

1. "But oh! that deep Romantic chasm which slanted/ Down the green hill,
athwart a cedarn cover!/ A savage place! A holy and enchanted/ As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted..."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2. In 1807, Robert Fulton launched his steamboat, and, in 1814, George Stephenson built a steal locomotive. Railroads changed the face of England and steamboats shrank oceans. It was the textile industry, however, that was at the forefront of change. Inventions, from the spinning jenny to the power loom, changed the way cloth was woven and moved the weaver from the spinning wheel in the kitchen to the factory beside the river.
Water power first and then coal drove the machines that ran the mills that created the cities in which the workers lived. Wealth no longer depended on land, and workers, separated from the land, realized that they would have to unite in political action. The Reform Bill of 1832, the product of democratic impulses and changing economic conditions, was a first step in extending the right to vote. It increased the voting rolls by 57 percent, but the working class and some members of the lower middle classes were still unable to vote. In 1833, after the period ended, Parliament abolished slavery in the British Empire.


3. Definitions page 720, 722, 726

exotic- adj. foreign; strange or different in a way that is striking
______
secular- adj. relating to worldly things as opposed to religion
_______
residential-adj. characterized by private homes
_______
privileged- adj. having rights or advantages denied to others
_______
institution- noun. established law, custom, or practice
_______
industrial- adj. of or connected with industries or manufacturing
_______
conventional- noun usually an adjective, it refers as a noun to whatever follows rules and is not original
_______
routine- noun. regular, customary procedure
_______
foibles- noun. small weakness in character

_________________________________________________
4. Ideas That Would Not Die- The original message of the Revolution, the one that had thrilled Wordsworth, was that people were to be free in their personal lives and free to choose their government: that all people were equally "citizens". However subsequent actions perverted them, these ideas would not die.
In England, a group of men and women, mostly Quakers, led by William Wilberforce, were determined that one ancient social institution would be abolished. Thanks to them, slavery was ended in England and in the Empire.
The Reform Bill of 1832 is another manifestation of the process of peaceful revolution that transformed England. Behind it was the idea of extending the right to vote. The 1832 bill was a step in a journey that took nearly a century, but in the end gave all citizens voting rights.
___________________________________________

5. The Sonnet- Romantic poets revived the sonnet, which had virtually disappeared after Milton. Wordsworth uses it as a political form in "London, 1802," and Shelley as a visionary form in "Ozymandis" and in "Ode to the West wind," which is made up of linked sonnets.
The Ode- In addition, the Romantics brought to perfection one of the oldest forms of poetry, the ode. Odes were written by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and, most notably, by the 24-year-old Keats.
The Byronic Hero- Lord Byron embodies in his life the spirit of age. A handsome, club-footed aristocrat who scorned the rules of society, he was described as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." Byron created in his person and in his characters the Byronic Hero, mysterious, brooding, and threatening. That hero is the distant ancestor of today's mysterious outsiders, whether in film, literature, or the graphic novel.
The Gothic- Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, influenced by the relatively new tradition of the horror-filed Gothic novel. Frankenstein is the doctor, not the monster, and he acts out the great Romantic theme of going beyond the limit. The novel reveals what happens when a man's obsession makes him unable to imagine the consequences of his action.
Going beyond the limit was yet another expression of the Romantics' drive to escape the everyday, the routine, and the humdrum.
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6. Dialect- It is the language, and particularly the speech habits, of a specific social class, region, or group. A dialect may vary from the standard form of a language in grammar, in pronunciation, and in the use of certain expressions.
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7.
Dominion- noun. rule; authority
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impudence- noun lack of shame; rudeness
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winsome- adj. having a charming appearance or way
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discretion- noun. good judgment; prudence
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inconstantly- adv. changeably; in a fickle way
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10. The speaker uncovers the mouse by
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14. Literature Response: Because I’m somewhat of a lazy person, I would be better off if these paragraphs were about what I wouldn’t do to get what I’m passionate about. However, within me is a strength, an endurance, that can weather a whole lot more than what people expect of me when I really want something. I’ve seen this fierceness in action, last summer infact. I really wanted to get to Memphis to study at the University of Tennessee for the summer and prepare for my senior year of high school. I wanted it so much that I detached myself from my family for the first time in my life, hoped on the Greyhound and rode for 30 consecutive hours, and caught a taxi to my dad’s place in order to visit the University. That was a great summer and I have no regrets with what I endured to capture it.
I would sacrifice a lot to get what I’m passionate about. Some things I would give up is my home life, my friends, and my location. For instance, if I was accepted into a college I would have to give those things up in order to go. I would give it up, because I’m passionate about attending college and kiss my home goodbye in order to go. Things I would not sacrifice are love, family, and freedom. When I say love, I mean a kind that really makes me feel complete. Something like love and freedom isn’t worth sacrificing because those are the main two things people desire most anyway.
15. Simile- comparing two apparently unlike things by using like or as
Metaphor- comparing two apparently unlike things without using like or as
Personification- giving human traits to something nonhuman
Oxymoron- juxtaposing two opposite or contradictory words that reveal an interesting truth
Imagery- Imagery is descriptive language that appeals to the sense of sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell. The term imagery may refer to a literal description, as well as to figurative language that evokes sensory experiences. Examples of imagery include words like green, humming, cold, and peppery.
Sound devices- Use the sounds of language to add a musical quality to poetry
Repetition- repeated use of sounds, words, phrases, or sentences. Poets use repetition for emphasis as well as to create musical effect. There are four popular devices that rely on repetition; alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme, and assonance.
Alliteration- repetition of initial consonant sounds
Consonance- repetition of final vowel sounds
Assonance- repetition of similar vowel sounds
Rhyme- repetition of sounds at ends of words, which are rhymes that occur at the ends of lines.
Onomatopoeia- use of words that imitate sounds- for example, words like ring, boom, and growl
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20. Vocabulary:
averred- verb. Stated to be true
Sojourn- verb. To stay for a while
Expiated- verb, atoned for, especially by suffering
reverence- noun. Deep respect
Sinuous- adj. bending; winding
Tumult- noun. Noise, commotion

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25. Vocabulary:
Verge- noun. Edge; rim
Sepulcher- noun. Tomb
Impulse- noun. Force driving forward
Blithe- adj. cheerful
Profuse- adj. abundant; pouring out
Satiety- noun. State of being filled with enough or more than enough
26. Three characteristics of poetic imagery:
-It appeals to any or all of the five sense.
- It sets the tone, the writer’s attitude toward the subject.
- It creates patterns supporting a poem’s theme, or central idea.
27. I think I will be around 30 or so when I hit the prime of my life. Honestly, I plan to be in college until I’m 24 and will be studying the whole time, which is not the most fun thing to do. I will have my career around the age of 25 or so and I’ll be getting used to that so I give it a good 5 years until I get used to that. I think I will be married by then, maybe even supporting a child by then. These are all the things that will most likely make my life happy and they play in the equation when figuring out my prime.
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30. Ode- a lyric poem characterized by heightened emotion, that pays respect to a person or thing, usually directly addressed by the speaker
Pindaric ode- (named for the ancient Greek poet Pindar) uses group of three stanzas, one of which differs in form from the other two. Pindar’s odes celebrated victors at the Olympic games.
Horatian ode- (also called homostrophic), which contains only one type of stanza.
Irregular ode- has no set pattern
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31. Vocabulary:
Ken- noun. Range of sight or knowledge
Teeming- adj. filled to overflowing
Vintage- noun. Wine of fine quality
Gleaned- verb. Collected bit by bit, as when gathering stray grain after a harvest
Requiem- noun. Musical composition honoring the dead
Surmise- noun. Guess or assumption
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34. amiable- adj. friendly; agreeable
Vindication- noun. Act of justification or support of
Fortitude- noun. Courage; strength to endure
Gravity- noun. weight; seriousness
Specious- noun. deceptively attractive or valid; false
Fastidious- adj. particular; difficult to please
35. Iwo Jima.…http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090129193046AAmXTwZ (continue)
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The Romantic Period 1798-1832

1. "But oh! that deep Romantic chasm which slanted/ Down the green hill,
athwart a cedarn cover!/ A savage place! A holy and enchanted/ As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted..."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2. In 1807, Robert Fulton launched his steamboat, and, in 1814, George Stephenson built a steal locomotive. Railroads changed the face of England and steamboats shrank oceans. It was the textile industry, however, that was at the forefront of change. Inventions, from the spinning jenny to the power loom, changed the way cloth was woven and moved the weaver from the spinning wheel in the kitchen to the factory beside the river.
Water power first and then coal drove the machines that ran the mills that created the cities in which the workers lived. Wealth no longer depended on land, and workers, separated from the land, realized that they would have to unite in political action. The Reform Bill of 1832, the product of democratic impulses and changing economic conditions, was a first step in extending the right to vote. It increased the voting rolls by 57 percent, but the working class and some members of the lower middle classes were still unable to vote. In 1833, after the period ended, Parliament abolished slavery in the British Empire.


3. Definitions page 720, 722, 726

exotic- adj. foreign; strange or different in a way that is striking
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secular- adj. relating to worldly things as opposed to religion
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residential-adj. characterized by private homes
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privileged- adj. having rights or advantages denied to others
_______
institution- noun. established law, custom, or practice
_______
industrial- adj. of or connected with industries or manufacturing
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conventional- noun usually an adjective, it refers as a noun to whatever follows rules and is not original
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routine- noun. regular, customary procedure
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foibles- noun. small weakness in character

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4. Ideas That Would Not Die- The original message of the Revolution, the one that had thrilled Wordsworth, was that people were to be free in their personal lives and free to choose their government: that all people were equally "citizens". However subsequent actions perverted them, these ideas would not die.
In England, a group of men and women, mostly Quakers, led by William Wilberforce, were determined that one ancient social institution would be abolished. Thanks to them, slavery was ended in England and in the Empire.
The Reform Bill of 1832 is another manifestation of the process of peaceful revolution that transformed England. Behind it was the idea of extending the right to vote. The 1832 bill was a step in a journey that took nearly a century, but in the end gave all citizens voting rights.
___________________________________________

5. The Sonnet- Romantic poets revived the sonnet, which had virtually disappeared after Milton. Wordsworth uses it as a political form in "London, 1802," and Shelley as a visionary form in "Ozymandis" and in "Ode to the West wind," which is made up of linked sonnets.
The Ode- In addition, the Romantics brought to perfection one of the oldest forms of poetry, the ode. Odes were written by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and, most notably, by the 24-year-old Keats.
The Byronic Hero- Lord Byron embodies in his life the spirit of age. A handsome, club-footed aristocrat who scorned the rules of society, he was described as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." Byron created in his person and in his characters the Byronic Hero, mysterious, brooding, and threatening. That hero is the distant ancestor of today's mysterious outsiders, whether in film, literature, or the graphic novel.
The Gothic- Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, influenced by the relatively new tradition of the horror-filed Gothic novel. Frankenstein is the doctor, not the monster, and he acts out the great Romantic theme of going beyond the limit. The novel reveals what happens when a man's obsession makes him unable to imagine the consequences of his action.
Going beyond the limit was yet another expression of the Romantics' drive to escape the everyday, the routine, and the humdrum.
______________________________________________________
6. Dialect- It is the language, and particularly the speech habits, of a specific social class, region, or group. A dialect may vary from the standard form of a language in grammar, in pronunciation, and in the use of certain expressions.
________________________________________________________
7.
Dominion- noun. rule; authority
_____
impudence- noun lack of shame; rudeness
_____
winsome- adj. having a charming appearance or way
_____
discretion- noun. good judgment; prudence
_____
inconstantly- adv. changeably; in a fickle way
_______________________________________________________

8. Ok
9. Ok
10. The speaker uncovers the mouse by
_______________
11.

_______________
12. Ok

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13.

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14. Literature Response: Because I’m somewhat of a lazy person, I would be better off if these paragraphs were about what I wouldn’t do to get what I’m passionate about. However, within me is a strength, an endurance, that can weather a whole lot more than what people expect of me when I really want something. I’ve seen this fierceness in action, last summer infact. I really wanted to get to Memphis to study at the University of Tennessee for the summer and prepare for my senior year of high school. I wanted it so much that I detached myself from my family for the first time in my life, hoped on the Greyhound and rode for 30 consecutive hours, and caught a taxi to my dad’s place in order to visit the University. That was a great summer and I have no regrets with what I endured to capture it.
I would sacrifice a lot to get what I’m passionate about. Some things I would give up is my home life, my friends, and my location. For instance, if I was accepted into a college I would have to give those things up in order to go. I would give it up, because I’m passionate about attending college and kiss my home goodbye in order to go. Things I would not sacrifice are love, family, and freedom. When I say love, I mean a kind that really makes me feel complete. Something like love and freedom isn’t worth sacrificing because those are the main two things people desire most anyway.
15. Simile- comparing two apparently unlike things by using like or as
Metaphor- comparing two apparently unlike things without using like or as
Personification- giving human traits to something nonhuman
Oxymoron- juxtaposing two opposite or contradictory words that reveal an interesting truth
Imagery- Imagery is descriptive language that appeals to the sense of sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell. The term imagery may refer to a literal description, as well as to figurative language that evokes sensory experiences. Examples of imagery include words like green, humming, cold, and peppery.
Sound devices- Use the sounds of language to add a musical quality to poetry
Repetition- repeated use of sounds, words, phrases, or sentences. Poets use repetition for emphasis as well as to create musical effect. There are four popular devices that rely on repetition; alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme, and assonance.
Alliteration- repetition of initial consonant sounds
Consonance- repetition of final vowel sounds
Assonance- repetition of similar vowel sounds
Rhyme- repetition of sounds at ends of words, which are rhymes that occur at the ends of lines.
Onomatopoeia- use of words that imitate sounds- for example, words like ring, boom, and growl
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18. Will use another page.
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19. I di



20. Vocabulary:
averred- verb. Stated to be true
Sojourn- verb. To stay for a while
Expiated- verb, atoned for, especially by suffering
reverence- noun. Deep respect
Sinuous- adj. bending; winding
Tumult- noun. Noise, commotion

21. Ok
22.
23.
24.
25. Vocubulary:
Verge- noun. Edge; rim
Sepulcher- noun. Tomb
Impulse- noun. Force driving forward
Blithe- adj. cheerful
Profuse- adj. abundant; pouring out
Satiety- noun. State of being filled with enough or more than enough
26. Three characteristics of poetic imagery:
-It appeals to any or all of the five sense.
- It sets the tone, the writer’s attitude toward the subject.
- It creates patterns supporting a poem’s theme, or central idea.
27. I think I will be around 30 or so when I hit the prime of my life. Honestly, I plan to be in college until I’m 24 and will be studying the whole time, which is not the most fun thing to do. I will have my career around the age of 25 or so and I’ll be getting used to that so I give it a good 5 years until I get used to that. I think I will be married by then, maybe even supporting a child by then. These are all the things that will most likely make my life happy and they play in the equation when figuring out my prime.
(Continue)

28. Ok.
29.
30. Ode-
Pindaric ode-
Horatian ode-
Irregular ode-
31.

1st part of English work

The Romantic Period 1798-1832

1. "But oh! that deep Romantic chasm which slanted/ Down the green hill,
athwart a cedarn cover!/ A savage place! A holy and enchanted/ As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted..."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2.In 1807, Robert Fulton launched his steamboat, and, in 1814, George


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3. Definitions page 720, 722, 726

exotic- adj. foreign; strange or different in a way that is striking
______
secular- adj. relating to worldly things as opposed to religion
_______
residential-adj. characterized by private homes
_______
priviledged- adj. having rights or advantages denied to others
_______
institution- noun. established law, custom, or practice
_______
industrial- adj. of or connected with industries or manufacturing
_______
conventional- noun usually an adjective, it refers as a noun to whatever follows rules and is not original
_______
routine- noun. regular, customary procedure
_______
foibles- noun. small weakness in character
_________________________________________________
4. Ideas That Would Not Die- The original message of the Revolution, the one that had thrilled Wordsworth, was that people were to be free in their personal lives and free to choose their government: that all people were equally "citizens". However sussequent actions perverted them, these ideas would not die.
In England, a group of men and women, mostly Quakers, led by William Wilberforce, were determined that one ancient social institution would be abolished. Thanks to them, slavery was ended in England and in the Empire.
The Reform Bill of 1832 is another manifestation of the process of peaceful revolution that transformed England. Behind it was the idea of extending the right to vote. The 1832 bill was a step in a journey that took nearly a century, butin the end gave all citizens voting rights.
___________________________________________

5. The Sonnet- Romantic poets revived the sonnet, whcih had virtually disappeared after Milton. Wordsworth uses it as a political form in "London, 1802," and Shelley as a visionary form in "Ozymandis" and in "Ode to the West wind," which is made up of linked sonnets.
The Ode- In addition, the Romantics brought to perfection one fo the oldest forms of poetry, the ode. Odes were written by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and, most notably, by the 24-year-old Keats.
The Byronic Hero- Lord Byron embodies in his life the spirit of age. A handsome, club-footed aristocrat who scorned the rules of society, he was described as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." Byron created in his person and in his characters the Byronic Hero, mysterious, brooding, threatening. That hero is the distant ancestor of today's mysterious outsiders, whter in film, literature, or the graphic novel.
The Gothic- Mary Shelley wrote frankenstein, influenced by the relatively new tradition of the horror-filed Gothic novel. Frankenstein is the doctor, not the monster, and he acts out the great Romantic theme of going beyond the limit. The novel reveals what happens when a man's obsession makes him unable to imagine the consequences of his action.
Going beyond the limit was yet another expression of the Romantics' drive to escape the everyday, the routine, and the humdrum.
______________________________________________________
6. Dialect- It is the language, and particularly the speech habits, of a specfic social class, region, or group. A dialect may vary from the standard form of a language in grammar, in pronounciation, and in the use of certain expressions.
________________________________________________________
7.
Dominion- noun. rule; authority
_____
impudence- noun lack of shame; rudeness
_____
winsome- adj. having a charming appearance or way
_____
discretion- noun. good judgement; prudence
_____
inconstantly- adv. changeably; in a fickle way
_______________________________________________________

8. Ok
9. Ok
10. The speaker uncovers the mouse by
_______________
11.

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12.

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13.

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14. Literature Response: 2 paragrpahs real-wrld examples, my ideas and thoughts (CONTINUE)