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Lady Bracknell
Mom of Gwendolen, refuses to let her get married to Earnest, really mean for some reason.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
Free Verse
Poetic form marked by absence of consistent meter or rhyme scheme. Became popular in the 20th and 21st century and was considered highly experimental before then.
You will be Mr. Hyde and I will be Mr. Seeke
Mr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Stevenson
Man gets excommunicated, robbed, then turned into a father.
Silas Marner by George Elliot
Framed Portraid
My Last Duchess
My Life Had Stood- a loaded Gun
I felt a Funeral in My Brain
Emily Dickenson
Realism
19th Century aesthetic development in literature and art devoted to truthful, honest, objective representation of the everyday and ordinary without idealizing /romanticizing its subjects.
But in her web she still delights
To weave the mirror's magic sights
For often through silent nights
The Lady of Shalott by Lord Alfred Tennyson
Woman is killed because she has too many emotions (for someone else than her lover) and doesn't focus all of her attention and emotions on her lover.
Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browing
The lady of Shalot and Silas Marner
Goblin Market
Christina Rossetti
Decadance
19th Century movement that embraces critically and questions the moral purpose in both art and life itself. They seek ecstacy and project an attitude of bored with everything conventional . Associated with sensuousness, transgressions, and perversity.
The mass of men serve the State thus, not as men mainly, but as machines with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgement or of the moral sesne..
Ex-Slave laments about the burial site on which she will likely be lain to rest.
Bury Me in A Free Land by Frances Harper
Lenore
The Raven
Signs of the Time
Thomas Caryle
Ballad
Meter: ABAB/ABCB Rhyme sceme, 4-3-4-3 stressed syllables
Style: simple language, folk culture, common people, oral composition.
Content: Often tragic narrative or sordid/superstitious
Were we required to characterize this age of ours by an single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age.
Signs of the Times by Thomas Carlyle
Explains the downfall of civilization and morality due to the increase in technology, consumerism and profit mindset.
Thomas Carlyle, “Signs of
the Times”
Camelot
The Lady of Shalot
The Lady of Shalot
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Anarchism
Belief that there is should be no government and no civil law because those institutions repress and subject the citizenry to surveillance. Not an embrace of disorderedly but a belief in absolute liberty fromn authority.
Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty? that he is the righful owner of his own body? You have already declared it. Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery?
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July
Implores readers to be an "army of one."
Henry David Thoreau,
“Resistance to Civil
Government”