Connection between New Historicism and Poems/Novels
Author's History
100
New Historicism erases the line dividing _______ and ________ materials
What are historical and literary materials
100
The poem that on several occasions uses death as a metaphor, including instances like "good night" and "close of day."
What is Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
100
This novel provided a frightening prediction of the future to warn people to refrain from admiring communism.
What is 1984?
100
The famous poet who died of alcohol poisoning just two years after writing his most famous work.
Who is Dylan Thomas
200
The first ideas of New Historicism started during this time period
What is the Enlightenment
200
Throughout 1984, Orwell establishes the idea that the people are being watched by this
What is the "Big Brother"
200
This poem makes a connection to the up and coming advances in technology of the time period
What is The Unknown Citizen
200
The author who was drafted into the United States military during World War 2, but ended up being denied because of medical reasons
Who is W.H. Auden
300
Some questions that people who study New Historicism would ask
What are 'How has the event been interpreted?' and 'What do the interpretations tell us about the interpreters?'"
300
The tone of the Unknown Citizen makes a dramatic shift from basic information to this
What is personal life
300
The poem that refered to words "had forked no lightning" to describe all the new inventions that had been coming into play during this era.
What is Do Not Go Gentle
300
This author was inspired to write his most famous poem because of his dying father.
Who is Dylan Thomas
400
New Historicism is a theory that was inspired by _________ and _____________
What is structuralism and post-structuralism
400
Throughout the Unknown Citizen the author uses many ________ _________ to describe the main character of the poem
What are backhand compliments.
400
Orwell's purpose in writing about Communist Russia was to scare the people away from this type of government
What is a totalitarian government
400
This author experienced the London bombing during World War 2 and it later inspired him to write his famous novel.
Who is George Orwell
500
New Historicism is not only just about history of the world, but of the authors _______.
What is their social sphere in which they moved, and the psychological background of the writer
500
In the poem Do Not Go Gentle, Thomas uses the symbols of light in the form of the phrases...
What are "lightning" and "blaze like meteors"
500
In the Unknown Citizen, the narrator would be referred to as a ______ becuase he supported the war.
What is a hawk
500
George Orwell considered himself to be an anarchist for most of his life, however towards the end he considered himself a ________, that inspired him to write 1984.