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ENGL 3002 Midterm

Grace Gent English English 41 cards

Cards in this deck (41)

1—Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Man"
- neoclassical
2—Phillis Wheatley, “Thoughts on the Works of Providence”
- neoclassical
3—Thomas Gray, "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat"
- neoclassical
- didactic
4—Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
- neoclassical
5—Anna Laetitia Barbauld
“The Mouse’s Petition"
6—Robert Burns, "To A Louse"
- burns stanza
- epigrammatic
7—Robert Burns, "To a Mouse"
- burns stanza
- epigrammatic
8—William Blake, “Introduction” to Songs of Innocence
- Romantic
- art with nature
9—William Blake, "The Lamb"
- Romantic
- moving from symbolism to emotional encounters
10—William Blake, "The Tyger"
- Romantic
- moving from symbolism to emotional encounters
11—William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
- Romantic
- the creation as a fall
12—William Blake, "The Chimney Sweeper"
- Romantic
- epigrammatic
13—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Eolian Harp”
- Romantic
- poet as instrument
- inspiration
14—William Wordsworth, "Lines Written at a Small Distance from my House"
- Romantic
15—William Wordsworth, “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads
- Romantic
- instances of expansion (via poetry)
16—William Wordsworth, “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
- Romantic
- inspiration
- nature
17insertLord Byron, “Darkness”
- Romantic
- inspiration
- nightmares
18insertPercy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias”
- Romantic
- presence of the past
19—Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”
- Romantic
- inspiration
- poet as instrument
20—Percy Bysshe Shelley, excerpt from “A Defence of Poetry”
- Romantic
- inspiration
- poet as instrument
- role of art
21insertJohn Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
- Romantic
- mortality, time
- frozen in happy moment (?)
- presence of the past
22insertJohn Keats, "Bright Star”
- Romantic
- mortality, time
23insertFelicia Hemans, “The Image in Lava”
- Romantic
- mortality, time (similar questions as Keats' "Grecian Urn")
- presence of the past
24insertMary Shelley, "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus"
- the Sublime
- contrasted w cramped spaces in the novel (ex; the hovel)
25insertMary Shelley, "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus"
- the domestic / the desire for the domestic
26insertMary Shelley, "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus"
- isolation
- sympathy (or lack thereof)
27—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus"
- myths and acts of creation
- parallel to potential horrors of Romantic inspiration
28insertNathaniel Hawthorne, “The Minister’s Black Veil”
- symbolic ambiguity
- we all have hidden sin; our own black veils
29insertNathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark”
- symbolic ambiguity
- had she been otherwise imperfect, mark = less noticeable
- disability studies perspective
30slides not posted? anyone have specific passages they remember being discussed?Edgar Allan Poe, “The Man of the Crowd”
31slides not posted? anyone have specific passages they remember being discussed?Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat”
32slides not posted? anyone have specific passages they remember being discussed?Walt Whitman, “Edgar Poe's Significance,” from Specimen Days
33insertHerman Melville, "Benito Cereno"
- settler colonial setting
- cognitive dissonance of the White Northerner
- gothic language
34insertHerman Melville, "Benito Cereno"
- 19th century racism
- cognitive dissonance of the White Northerner
35insertHerman Melville, "Benito Cereno"
- Babo's Theatre and African political strategy
- Haitian revolution
36insertHerman Melville, "Benito Cereno"
- how is history written?
- limits of the archive, the violence that produces it
37excerpts not on slides; review textFrederick Douglass, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave"
38insertRobert Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover”
- Victorian poet
- first person
- male desire is affected by power and possessiveness in objectification of women
39insertRobert Browning, “My Last Duchess”
- Victorian poet
- first person
- male desire is affected by power and possessiveness in objectification of women
40insertChristina Rossetti, “Goblin Market”
- Victorian poet
- sisterhood
- female desire
41idk which dickinson excerpts to pulldickinson!