Inglese Flashcards
(17 cards)
What’s the definition of poetry for William Wordsworth
It’s a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility
What’s the definition of poetry for Coleridge
It’s a willing suspension of disbelief
Which are the two levels of imagination in Coleridge?
There teh primmary one thanks to which the person gives a shape to the world and everyone can do it, while the secondary one is proper of just the poet who is God like because he creates new words
Which is the path of the ancient mariner
1 sin or committing a crime ~ kill of the albatross
2 punishment ~ the ship stuk in the middle of the ocean
3 sense of guilt ~ the thirst the sailors suffer from
4 repentance ~ the mariner blessing the snakes
5 final expiation ~ his condemnation to tell his story
Which are the symbolic elements of the rime of the ancient mariner
STORY It could be seen as a description of a dream, or as an allegory of the life of the Christian soul, or as a metaphor of men’s originals sin
VOYAGE Is the progression from sin to the redemption
SHIP Is the body of a man or the vessel of the soul?
CREW Is the whole mankind at first they condemn him for his act, but then they participate
SUN It’s the benevolence of nature, but it also suggests the punitive side
ICE It’s the lack of solidarity among men, dangers and death
SOUTH POLE It’s Hell
DROUGHT It’s sailor’s punishment
ALBATROSS It could be seen as life and the respect that must be given to it, but also as a Christ
Which are the poets of the second generation of romantic poets
John Keats / He was a rebel against his own life, because he suffered a lot for economic and health problems
Byron and Shelly / They were like titans, like Prometheus because they wanted to change their society
They all died very young in different states and believed in destiny and in the ideal of mythical life. They believe that ideal poetry was a reflection of the reality, but they didn’t want to represent their society because they didn’t like it.
Why is imagination important for Keats and which are the two levels of beauty
Imagination was a way to escape from reality, and he found in it joy, relief and beauty
The two levels of beauty are physical beauty perceived by using all the five senses and spiritual beauty, which contains love friendship and poetry
What is the negative capability?
The negative capability is a special gift of the poet who he is able to deny his own personality to identify with the object that he’s describing. The object is a source of inspiration and it’s where truth resides. The poet can seek sensations of which are the the basis of knowlodge and knowlodge brings to eternal beauty and truth
What is Utilitarianism
Utlitarianism is a philosophy applied to social problems that believes that actions should be judged as the right or wrong, depending on their usefulness or how much happiness they would bring to the greatest number of people
Many embraced this philosophy, especially the growing middle-class songs, but some such as the novelist Charles dickens criticised it as being spiritually limiting
What and when did Charles Darwin published?
In 1859, Charles Darwin published the origin of the species presenting his theories of the survival of the fittest in nature and the struggle for existence. He has been criticised by a lot of clergymen, but some supported him in such as Charles Kingsley who said that he had described another law of God
What is social darwinism
It’s the name of the Herbert Spencer, a philosopher and scientist, who applied Darwin s theory of the survival of the fittest to human history, claiming that some societies were fitter to survivor and should dominate the weak. It had also been used to justify both the British imperialism in the 19th century and Nazism in the 20th.
Which are the two war poets we studied?
RUPERT BROOKE He died in 1915, of septicaemia, while he was on a ship on his way to fighting Turkey. THE SOLDIER is a poem written following the metrical scheme of the Italian sonnets and with a rhytmic pattern that followed English tradition. In this composition, there is the theme of death without any emotional reference but emphasising the honour it brings to the Nation. England is idealised evoking pastoral elements characteristic of Georgian poetry. The soldier is dead, but he is spiritually bound to his land in a English heaven
WILFRED OWEN he died just a week before the end of the war, he wrote between 1917, and 1918.
The front line on a bright winter morning. A soldier has recently died though we don’t know precisely how or when. Owen appears to have known him and something of his background and he ponders nature’s power to create life, setting it against the futility of extinction. Only five of his poems were published in Wilfred Owen’s lifetime. FUTILITY was one of them.The speaker says to move him into the sun. The touch of the sun had always woken him before, both at home and in France, but it did not this snowy morning. If there is anything that could wake him it would be the “kind old” sun. It wakes the seeds and once it woke the “clays of a cold star”. The speaker wonders if the man’s limbs and sides, which are still warm, are now too hard to stir. He wonders if this is why the clay “grew tall”, and why the “fatuous sunbeams” bothered disturbing the earth’s sleep in the first place.
What is the objective correlative?
It is a term conied by eliot himself Which states that poetry must be objective and impersonal, and that images are the objective correlative of the emotion the suggest. Eliot doesn-t describe an emotion, but presents the objects in such a way that emotion is produced in the reader
Which are the five parts of the wasteland
434 verses
1 The Burial of the dead / a body is buried and the poet wonders if it has bloomed again, it might make the Earth to flourish
2 A game of chess. Firstly, there is a woman getting ready then she’s full of anxiety at the end she complains about her friend-s horrible appearence
3 sermon of fire / empty and sterile sexuality
4 death by water / a dead body is drowing
5 What the thunder said, two knights in a desolate village without water hear some advice
What is the difference between the stream of consciousness and the interior monologue?
The stream of consciousness is the secret phenomena, which happens in the characters mind, while the interior monologue is the way to express this stream of consciousness
Which are the two types of interior monologue
The first type of interior monologue is the indirect one which is used by Virginia Woolf. In this way. They thoughts of the characters are mediated by a third person, omniscient, narrator, who can add comments, descriptions and explanations and grammar and logic are generally maintained.
Instead of the direct interior monologue which is used by James Joyce presents the characters thoughts are in the first person, without following any grammatical or logical rule
Which is the structure of the dubliners
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories, collected four categories: childhood, adolescence, adult life and public life (political, religious, artistic)
The last story is titled The Dead (Gabreil Conroy / Gretta / Michael Furey)
