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ENGL: 207 Revision
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- 1Structure of Ode to the West Wind Percy ShelleyOde - a free form poem (a meditation). The loose form is used to express abstract ideas and thoughts.
Interlaced 3-line stanzas of Italian terza rima (ABA BCB CDCDED) to express the chain of cause an effect (the butterfly effect) Everything happens as a result of something else. - 2Quotes from Ode to the West Wind Percy Shelley'West Wind'
'Autumn and 'Spring'
'Destroyer and Preserver'
'sky's commotion' and 'Earth's decaying'
'Black rain and fire and hail will burst'
'and share/ The impulse of thy strength'
'If Winter comes. can spring be far behind?' - 3Structure of England 1819 Percy ShelleyA sonnet that uses a list form to express numerous images and idea.
Use of extended sentences and commas
ABABABCDCDCCDD
Delay of the main verb 'Are' to symbolise delayed change - 4Quotes from England 1819 Percy Shelley'old, mad, blind, despised and dying king'
'mud from a muddy spring'
'leechlike'
'A people starved and stabbed.../ An army'
'sanguine laws'
'glorious Phantom'
'may'
'Burst and illumine our tempestuous day' - 5Structure of Mutability Percy ShelleyLyrical poem
ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH - alternating rhyme scheme highlights a constant change
Tone - coming to terms with the forever changing state of politics/ the universe - 6Quotes from Mutability Percy Shelley'We'
'clouds that veil the... moon'
'yet soon'
'We rest.../ We rise.../ We feel'
'free'
'Sorrow' and 'Morrow' - 7Structure of To Wordsworth Percy ShelleySonnet from but the couplet comes before the end; ABABCDCDEEFGFG
Use of colons and enjambment creates a sense of continuing - The reader is left to keep reading until the break in line 12 with the hyphen '-'
High/Low language - 'thy' when referring to Wordsworth and 'I' when talking anout himself - 8Quotes from To Wordsworth Percy Shelley'Poet of Nature'
'leaving thee to mourn'
'light did shine'
'truth and liberty -/ Deserting these'
'cease to be' - 9Structure of To Autumn John KeatsLexically dense poem
3 stanzas. each 11 lines of relatively precise iambic pentameter
ABABCDEDCCE -1st stanza
ABABCDCCDDE - 2nd and 3rd stanza
Stanzas begin with a fast ABAB pace and gradually slow as it comes to an end - season from warm to cold
Horatian - mix of Shakespearean quatrain and Petrarchan sestet - 10Quotes from To Autumn John Keats'Season of mist'
'maturing sun'
'bees'
'wind lives or dies'
'fumes', 'soft-lifted', 'seek', 'sand'
'last oozing hours' - 11Structure of Ode to a Grecian Urn John Keats5 stanzas of 10 lines
Horatian - combines Shakespearean quatrain and Petrarchan sestet
ABAB CDECDE is the predominant rhyme scheme
EXPERIMENTING WITH THE SONNET - 12Quotes from Ode to a Grecian Urn John Keats'Still unravish'd'
'she cannot fade' and 'forever young'
'When old age shall this generating waste,/ Thou shalt remain'
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' - 13Structure of Ode to Psyche John KeatsLexically heavy with lush, sensual language
Experiment with sonnet to produce an irregular, Pindaric form
Varied line lengths, from pentameter to dimeter
Alternating rhyme scheme but there are many exceptions and unrhymed lines ('Hours' in stanza 3) - spontaneous rhapsody
Repetition of 'moan', 'hours', 'sweet', 'teeming', 'heat' and 'dreaming' in stanza 1 and 2
Doesn't stress complexity but freedom - 14Quotes from Ode to Psyche John Keats'aurorean love' and 'delicious moan'
'Psyche'
'let me be thy choir'
'O' and 'Yes' - 15Structure of Ode to Melancholy John Keats3 stanzas, each 10 lines
ABABCDECDE but the last stanza is CDEDCE
Enjambment
Speaker - advises all sufferers of melancholy
Ode - elaborate form of lyrical poem, addressing a person or abstract idea
Horatian - 16Quotes from Ode to Melancholy John Keats'Your mournful Psyche;
'or' x3
'Beauty that must die'
'burst Joy's grape'
'His soul shall taste the sadness of her might' - 17Quotes from 'A Discourse of the Love of Our Country' Richard Price (1789)'the fetters which despotism had been long preparing for us were broken'
'principles of toleration'
'liberty of conscience in religious freedom', 'resist power when absurd', 'chuse our own governors; to cashier them for misconduct; and to frame a government for ourselves'
'not sufficiently'
'the enemies of the repeal of the Test Lawa should not soon become ashamed, and give up their opposition'
'inequality of our representation'
'semblance of liberty'
'REFORMATION, innovation'
'setting America free, reflected to France' - 18Quotes from 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' Edmund Burke (1790)'inheritance'
'our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars'
'real rights of men'
'scattered limbs and mutilated carcases'
'glittering like a morning star'
'a King is but a man; a queen is but a woman; a woman is but a animal; and an animal is not of the highest order'
'!'
'Their liberty is not liberal. Their science is presumptuous ignorance. Their humanity is savage and brutal' - 19Quotes from 'Rights of Man' Thomas Paine (1791)'frenzy of passion' and 'sprouting rant'
'Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself'
'right of the living'
'the despotic principles of the government'
'whole heart and soul'
'despotism... divides and subdivides itself into a thousand shapes and forms'
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