poetic devices
assigning human traits to non-human creatures, objects, or ideas
what is personification?
when a poem uses the same or similar lines multiple times
what is repetition?
a theme which brings together the outsider, homelessness, disfigurement, exile, abjection, difference, and rebellion
what is monstrosity?
the metaphor of beaten gold and the metaphor of the dying man
what are metaphors from "A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning"
Paradise Lost, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", "Prayer", "Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God", "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
in what texts might we discuss the human relationship with the divine?
a stop (comma or period) in the middle of a line of poetry
What is caesura?
a poem in which the speaker is a character, not the poet, and the speaker addresses an unspeaking listener
what is a dramatic monologue?
a theme which brings together loss, melancholy, mourning, trauma, witnessing, and time
what is disaster?
the dragon
what is the third monster in Beowulf?
"My Last Duchess", Landscapes, "Leda and the Swan", "Shield of Achilles", Beowulf, "Punishment"
what are some texts which discuss violence against women?
putting two unlike ideas or images together to suggest a similarity between them
what is juxtaposition?
a poetic comparison in which one thing stands in for another
what is a metaphor?
a theme which brings together tradition, voice, metaphor, negative capability, individuality, and creation
what is art?
Ile de la cité, the Berlin Holocaust memorial, the 9/11 memorial, and the London Flood memorial
what are the memorials discussed in Landscapes?
Beowulf, Landscapes, Endgame, King Lear, "Ode to a Nightingale", "Digging"
in which texts might we discuss humans and the natural world?
a poetic exaggeration
what is hyperbole?
specific word choice for effect
what is diction?
a theme which brings together metaphor, limitation, language, etymology, the archive, and violence
what is interpretation?
the blinding of Gloucester
what is the moral turning point for several characters in King Lear?
Landscapes, Endgame, "The Shield of Achilles"
in what texts might we discuss apocalypse?
an extended metaphor
what is a conceit?
the sudden poetic turn in a sonnet
what is volta?
a theme which brings together identity, perception, guilt, shame, authorial voice, and meaning
what is anxiety?
rhetoric of independence, tyranny, camaraderie, and free thought
What are qualities of Satan's speeches in Book 1 of Paradise Lost?
Paradise Lost, "Tradition and the Individual Talent", "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Digging", "Musée des Beaux Arts", Landscapes
for what texts might we discuss art, history, and tradition?