English Ren
What types of poems were common in this time?
Lyric Poetry and metaphysical poetry
what does neoclassicalism look back on?
Classical learnings to know science, philosophy and government.
What values did the Romantics believe in?
Nature, Emotions, Independence, Factories were bad
How did the Hound of Baskerville have Victorian ideals?
They prioritize science over superstition
Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front?
Erique Maria Remarque
Who was the ruler at this time and what religion was she
Queen Elizabeth and Protestant
what was Milton’s purpose for writing paradise lost?
to justify the ways of god to men
What genre does Frankenstein fall under? How does it exhibit those ideals?
Frankenstein was a gothic novel, as it explores ideas like scientific creation and death.
explain my last duchess and also who wrote it?
robert browning wrote it. In the poem a Duke is talking to a Count about his last wife. He talks about how she was easily pleased, and that she seemed flirtatious with other people. Then he goes back to talking to the Count about his daughter and how he wants a dowry
What is the term for the period post World War II.
High Modernism
Who typically wrote poetry
amatuers
what happens with religion and politics during the neoclassical period?
church policies are restored, reinforcement of parliament as ruling body, and increase in individual rights.
Who said the famous quote, “Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains?”
Rousseau
Who wrote “The Angel in the House”?
Coventry Patmore
How was the “Make It New” idea applied to pre WWI Modernism.
Make efforts for the better
Name one renaissance Poet
John Donne, Shakespeare, Petrarch,
what cultural and philosophical changes happened?
advancement in science and technology, women rights and slavery is abolished.
What is an example of sublime in Frankenstein?
When Frankenstein goes to the mountains with his family to cope with Elizabeth’s death.
How are Victorian ideals different from Gothic ideals?
Gothic ideals were depressing but Victorian ideals were much more exaggerated into the negative realm
How is the Modernist hero different from the Greek hero?
The Modernist hero is cynical, sad, and can’t cope. The Greek hero is optimistic
When would lyric poetry be published
After the author died
what rapid changes happened?
London doubles in population, the middle class gets more recognition
Name a Romantic poem or one of the Big 6:
The Tyger, Delight in Disorder, Ozymandias, My Heart Leaps Up, Keats, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Byron, Shelley
Who wrote Porphyria's Lover
robert browning
Who wrote about “spiritus mundi gyre” and what does it translate to?
It translates to “spirit of the world repeats” and YB Yeats wrote about it