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epic invocation
a call to a divinity who will inspire and bless the verse
alexander pope
wrote Rape of the Lock, about a guy who takes a lady’s hair. mock epic, lady’s name is Belinda. Pope wrote it at the request of his friend Caryll.
heroic couplets
pairs of iambic pentameter lines rhyming aabbcc
wb yeats
poetry characterized by symbolism
matthew arnold
“sweetness and light,” referring to the quality and beneficial values of classical literature–Arnold was a devout classicist–wrote Culture and Anarchy which argued that art calls forth the best in mankind
colridge
divided imagination into “primary” and “secondary”
Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound–in his version Prometheus steals fire from Hephaistos, Zeus punishes him by tying him to a cliff and having his liver eaten daily. Same version used by PB Shelley in Prometheus unbound.
poetic inversion
inverting customary word order, i.e. noun and adjective
Achilles’ armor
made by Hephaistos, worn into battle by Patroclus, who is killed and stripped by the trojan Hector. Achilles’ mother, Thetis, orders a new one from Hephaistos and Achilles receives it the next day.
JM Synge
wrote Playboy of the Western World–where a son has to kill a father twice, first to acclaim, second to chagrin–father comes back again and they reconcile.
David Copperfield
Dickens, partly autobiographical; besides David characters are. Mr. and Mrs. Micawber and Uriah Heep
Scheherazade
narrator of 1001 Arabian Nights, uses stories to keep from being beheaded
Charles Lamb
friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge, used pen name Elia
tercet
group of three lines
ottava rima
eight line stanza, usually in iambic pentameter
rhyme royal
iambic pentameter lines rhyming ababbcc–usually only seven lines
Bigger Thomas
character in Richard Wright’s Native Son
The Awakening
Kate Chopin, featuring Pontellier and Lebrun, set in Louisiana and confronts idea that women are men’s property
House of Mirth
Edith Wharton, Lily Barton is character’s name and it’s set in NYC
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell, upper class british who worte about social conditions in industrializing England
My Last Duchess
Robert Browning, Italian nobleman speaks to a portrait of his dead wife who he’s had killed; written in heroic couplets
Youth
by Joseph Conrad, young seaman loves danger
Dante’s guides
Virgil in first two books, but not third because V hasn’t been redeemed because he died before Jesus was born. Beatrice guides him in Paradiso–they met at nine and fell in love at first sight.
Prosopopoeia
personification that includes attributing speech to a nonhuman object