Bedford Bound
A nuanced and thorough analysis of a text (with emphasis on interrelationships among elements)
Close reading
Strangers like you that pictured countenance / The depth and passion of its earnest glance, / But to myself they turned (since none puts by / The curtain I have drawn for you, but I) / And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst, / How such a glance came there
"My Last Duchess"
Andrew Marvell, John Donne, Robert Herrick
Early Modern
Eve saves three boys from the street and calls them all this name
Dewey
Not Victoria; the one from Early Modern times
Queen Elizabeth
The evocation of scenes or events that take place at a later point in the story
Prolepsis
O Blues!
Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool
He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool.
Sweet Blues!
Coming from a black man’s soul.
O Blues!
"The Weary Blues"
1830-1900, the novel flourished
Victorian
Shadrack's response to Sula after she runs to his home following Chicken Little's drowning
Always
Tender Button's writer. A modernist.
Gertrude Stein
A story that contains another story or stories
Frame story
There thou mayst brain him,/Having first seized his books; or with a log/Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,/Or cut his weasand with thy knife.
The Tempest
1900-1945, and the writers were critical about it
Modernist
Hannah dreams of this after asking about Plum
Red bridal gown
The one who wrote: "When I do this, I shall wind up my career. My brothers, we will then be revenged for our wrongs, and some little, too, for the wrongs of our poor, bleeding country. We will divide our substance
and spend the rest of our days in peace."
John Rollin Ridge
Episodic in structure, and the low class central character generally lives by his or her wits
Picaresque novel
She was completely free of ambition, with no affection for money, property, or things, no greed, no desire to command attention or compliments—no ego. For that reason she felt no compulsion to verify herself—be consistent with herself.
Sula
1800-1830, flirtatious affair? We don't know her
Romanticism
"But when God looks down, it's the bottom. That's why we call it so. It's the bottom of _____ - the best land there is."
heaven
They were on the same side-the winning side!-in WWI and WWII
Great Britain and US
It's the front part of the stage, between the
curtain and the orchestra
Proscenium
One impulse from a vernal wood/May teach you more of man,/Of moral evil and of good,/Than all the sages can.
"The Tables Turned"
1660-1800, commerce, literacy, religious devotion, liberty and rights
The Long 18th Century (Age of Reason/Enlightenment)
stemmed rose
"having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry"
Robert Herrick