Literature Flashcards
Anglo/Saxon lyric poems:
The wanderer-
Anglo/Saxon lyric poems:
The wanderer-his lord died and he’s lost, looking for a new one
His Wierd is to look for another ‘gold friend’
Anglo/Saxon lyric poems:
The seafarer-
Anglo/Saxon lyric poems:
The seafarer-unknown author/two opposite sides about being a sailor..one young and eager/one old and weathered
Beowulf
Epic about hero Beowulf
Defeated Grendel, Grendals mom and dragon-that killed him too in the end(only one soldier stayed by his side)
The Canterbury tales
The pardoners tale-
The Canterbury tales
The pardoners tale-
Men gamble and talk about how things are unholy, death is upon town, 2 men kill a man for money
The Canterbury tales
The millers tale-
The Canterbury tales
The millers tale-carpenter takes in nick, carpenter marries girl ignoring cato. Girl turns down nick then falls for him. Then absalon falls for girl. Nick and girl trick C and farts in Ab face
The Canterbury tales
The knights tale-
The Canterbury tales
The knights tale- knight rape women. Punishment is to go on quest to find what women desire. Women want to be in charge.
The Canterbury tales
The wife of baths tale-
The Canterbury tales
The wife of baths tale-
5 husbands. 3 good ones. Women should use what God gave them.
The Canterbury tales
The nuns priests tales tale-
The Canterbury tales
The wife of baths tale-
Widow with hen and rooster. Rooster had dream that wife dismissed. Then it came true but he got away from the wolf
Narrative
A type of writing that relays to a series of events
Elizabethan poems
Pastorals- poem that portrays shepherd and rustic life
Sonnets- 14 line lyric poem(Francesco and Shakespearean)
Taming of the shrew
Farcical
Trying to tame Kate
By Shakespeare
Macbeth
Tragic hero
Motifs
By Shakespeare
Metaphysical poetry
Shift from authoritative to experimental
Oxymorons and paradox
John Donne
Cavalier poets
Johnson
Marvell, herrick, Lovelace
Carpe diem
Paradise lost
John Milton
About satan and Beelzebub
Sin of pride
