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"She Walks in Beauty"

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The poem is about an unnamed woman. She's really quite striking, and the speaker compares her to lots of beautiful, but dark, things, like "night" and "starry skies." The second stanza continues to use the contrast between light and dark, day and night, to describe her beauty. We also learn that her face is really "pure" and "sweet." The third stanza wraps it all up - she's not just beautiful, she's "good" and "innocent"

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Ode on a grecian urn

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Starts off describing the beautiful grecian urn that depicts two different scenes. On one side, a boy is about to kiss a girl (and describes pros and cons with this). Pro- They will always be in that moment (because they are stuck on the urn). Con- The boy will never be able to kiss the girl because the urn is stuck on one moment. On the other side, people watch an animal sacrifice. The whole town is there and the town will always be desolate. The urn always give the same advice to everyone. All we need to know is that truth and beauty are parallel.

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"To A Louse" (Lice)

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Speaker asks the louse where it is going. The louse is moving on an elegant lady's bonnet at Church. He says the louse should be on the head of a beggar, not on the lady in front of him. He tells the lady to not notice it and have a nice day. Moral= We need to shed our misconceptions of ourself- this would rid us of our pride and our vain self-love.

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Sonnet Vii (Milton)

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The man starts off 23 years old. Time is running fast and he is aging.

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Blake

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"The Lamb" and "The Tyger". He claimed that mystical visions were the source of his inspiration

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Shelley

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"Ozymandias", "To a Skylark"

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Types of lyric poems

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1. Ode- serious, often intensely emotional poem that honors a person or thing. 2. Elegy- solemn, formal poem about death 3. Sonnet- 14 line poem with formal structure, meter, and rhyme sequences.

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"To a Skylark"

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The poem opens up with the speaker calling out to a bird (which he calls a "Spirit"). He tells the bird how much he loves its singing. Then he describes how it shoots up into the sky at dusk, into the purple evening. After that, he compares the bird's song to a bunch of different things, including a star, the planet Venus, a poet, a maiden, a worm, a rose, and so forth. Then he starts to talk about how all of the beautiful things that human beings make can't compare to the song of this bird. All human songs are sad, but this bird's song is just pure joy. Finally the speaker dreams of being able to sing with as much joy and freedom as this happy bird.

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"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"

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He's saying that Keats has read a lot of books, and travelled a lot. He's basically praising Chapman's version of Homer saying that when he read this version of Homer, it opened up a new world for him.

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17th/18th Century Poetry

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I think Milton is the main author of these on test idk i just had milton in my notes

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Changes proposed by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 'Lyrical Ballads'

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1) Language of Poetry: - "the real language of men" (Both) 2) Subject matter of poetry: -humble, rustic life (W) -personal, subjective, emotional experiences (Both) -supernatural, exotic (C) -love of nature (Both) 3) The view of a poet: -the poet is just one person speaking to others -poet is gifted with unique powers of feeling and expression

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Coleridge

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"The rime of the ancient mariner" "Kubla khan" His poetry established the Romanticism movement

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Italian (petrarchan)

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abbaabba or ababab

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"The Tyger"

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The speaker is asking who could've dared to make such a frightful being. And when the heart of the fiery tiger started beating, why did the creator continue. And when the tiger was completed, did the creator smile. Asks: "Did he who made the Lamb (from previous poem) make thee?". How could God dare to make this creature.

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"Kubla Khan"

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Coleridge dreamed this story after he read another work. He woke up and wrote this story down: Describes Xanadu (palace of Kubla Khan) with an endless river, fertile land, forests, and sweet smelling trees. He desribes the canyon the river goes through as spooky. The river splashes into the canyon then sinking down to the ocean. Kubla Khan listens to this river and thinks about war. Speaker moves away from this scene and tells another vision: a woman plays an instrument and sings. Ends with describing Kubla Khan as god like with flashing eyes.

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"Tintern Abbey"

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Poet visits a place called Tinturn Abbey (nature). He remembers the nature details of the place when he visited it 5 years ago. He remembers how highly he used to hold this place in his heart 5 years ago. He used to enjoy nature, but he didn't fully understand it. Now he looks and is able to sense a deeper, wider meaning to the beauty in nature. He sees that everything in nature is interconnected. Hes with sister and wonders what she'll think next time she goes to Tinturn abbey

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When I have fears that I may cease to be"

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Speaker contemplated love, success, fame.The Speaker wants fame. He wants a once-in-a-lifetime type of Love. Speaker is pretty sure his life will end before this will happen to him, though. He realizes that all their desires are petty and small - especially when they're compared to the scope of the outside world.

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"The World is too much with us"

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Wordsworth complains that mankind is too concerned with time and money (material things) and not nature. We should show more appreciation for nature. He says he would rather be a pagan so he could feel less sad.

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Wordsworth

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Father of English Romanticism; Poet laureate of England; Outlived all the "second generation" Romantic poets; wrote "Tinturn Abbey"; Along with Coleridge, set out revolutionize poetry with the publication of lyrical ballads; wrote lyric poems, sonnets, and "Prelude"- his poetic autobiography.

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Byronic Hero

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Like Byron himself, a Byronic hero is a melancholy and rebellious young man, distressed by a terrible wrong he committed in the past.

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Keats

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"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer", "When I have fears that i may cease to be", "Ode on a grecian Urn"

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"Ozymandias"

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Speaker sees old statue in the desert in Egypt. He can see the face of a person on the statue. The person is Ozymandias. Theme= All good things may come to an end (Don't have so much pride because it may lead to downfall)

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"Elegy written in a country churchyard"

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Speaker is walking through a spooky churchyard at night. All the grave stones are simple and roughly carved (not in best shape). He basically says that all the dead people who have those grave stones were poor. He tells the readers it doesn't matter what your grave stone looks like because we are all going to die eventually. He imagines his own death and someone passing by his gravesite and then the Speaker writes his own Epitaph.

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"A Modest Proposal"

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Poverty-stricken irish kids are used as food for wealthy. This poem includes satire. Using these children as food will help the Irish economy. Reducing the population makes it easier for the great and noble England to deal with their unruly subjects.

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Byron

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Came from aristocratic, but violent and undisciplined families; considered the embodiment of the romantic spirit; Became famous by "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"; Credited with the title 'Byronic Hero'; otherwise considered more like the 18th century poets because he writes satire; "Don Juan", "She Walks in Beauty"

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"London, 1802"

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Starts with calling to john Milton. He says that since Milton is gone, England needs a guiding voice. Compares england to a stagnant swamp. People of England have forgotten what has made them glorious (Military, religion, literature). He says Milton needs to come back to make England better (He praises Milton). Milton's writing was very good and so was his character.

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Burns

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"To a Mouse", "To a Louse". Use of dialect, use of subjects drawn from everyday life, love and respect for nature, individual experience.

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"To A Mouse"

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The mouse is in panic because the speaker ran over its home with a plow. Now the mouse is without a house for the winter. The speaker apologizes for his actions and for all mankind. Then, the speaker comforts the mouse by saying "Long lost plans oft go awry" (allusion- Of mice and men). The mouse lives a better life than mankind because it lives in the present, while humans regret the past and fear the future.

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Romantic Authors:

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spenserian

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abab bcbc cdcd

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Types of sonnets

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Italian (petrarchan) , english (shakespearean), and spenserian

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Sonnet XIX

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The speaker is blind. He is self reflecting why God chose him to be blind since it declines his talent to write. Patience answers him saying God doesn't judge us off the work we do and you don't need that work. Sit and wait and he will serve you.

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Romanticism

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Faith in senses, feelings, and imaginations; Interest in the rural and natural; Subjective poetry; Interest in mysterious and supernatural/gothic; Emotionalism (extreme mental state, madness, etc.); Concerned with the individual, intuition, instinct, innocence, and imagination (5 i's).

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"To His Coy Mistress"

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A man asks his lover why she is so shy. Time's to short to act shy. They are young now so they can marry before they age.

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"The Lamb"

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Asks the lamb who gave him life and fine qualities. Then he tells the lamb that God made the lamb and that both the speaker and the lamb are called by His name.

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"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

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Three guys are on the way to a wedding celebration when an old sailor (the Mariner) stops one of them at the door. He tells a story that on a journey, the mariner shoots an albatross (Christ like figure). Bad things happen (No wind, hot, no water). Mates hang dead albatross on mariners neck to remind him of his error (unescapable). Mariner sees a ghost ship- Death and Life-in death are the two passengers on ghost ship. Playing a game to see what the Mariner's fate will be. Everyone on ship dies except mariner. Water snakes - Mariner blesses water snakes and he is freed (albatross falls from neck). mates wake up but as zombies with angels. Two voices in air talk. Hermit on land picks up Mariner on boat. Mariner wants the wedding guest to know that he wants to now pray and love all things he interacts with.

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"Don Juan"

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Byron laments that fact that he's too old to be young and beautiful like Don Juan. He feels as though he has wasted his youth. In the end, he doesn't think it matters if he's a famous poet. Everyone dies in the end and everyone gets forgotten no matter how much of a big deal they were in their lives. IDK

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English (shakespearean)

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abab cdcd efef gg

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Lyric poetry

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expresses personal thoughts and feelings of a single speaker

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