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- Anglo Saxon period
- 449-1066
- origin of English
- German
- Length of Roman control
- 400 years
- How man could transcend fate
- by becoming famous and having their story passed down
- Meaning of the sign in Conversion on King Edwin
- the laying onof hands is a ceremony for transmitting spiritual grace to recipient
- Edwin's reward for conversion
- he will be delivered from the everlasting torments fo the wicked and also made a partaker with God of HIs eternal kingdom of Heaven
- What type of story is the Conversion of King Edwin?
- allegory
- Device in Story of Caedmon
- once when he left the feast... he went to the cattle shed: allusion to shed where Jesus was born
- Wife's Lament author and wife's husband
- anonyomous, an outcast
- Length of Medival period
- 1066-1485
- battle of Hastings
- with the support of the Church, Duke William invaded england in Sept. of 1066 and defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings, the Normans killed most of the Native English nobility, subjugated the rest of the populace, and divided the country into estates
- feudalism
- the system by which Europe was ruled throughout the Medieval age. IN feudal states, all people and land belonged to the KIng who granted large tracts of land to nobility and barons. At te very bottom of the social ladder were bondsmen, peasants, villians and serfs who lived on and worked on the nobles' land
- purpose of crusades
- holy wars to recapture Jerusalem from the Moslems
- Magna Carta
- King John was forced to sign this document in 1215, which limited the rights of the king after he taxed Barons so heavily. It made him subject to the rulings of the baronial Parliament, and guarenteed trial by jury of one's peers
- Chief learning centers in Medieval period
- monasteries
- morality plays
- a type of drama developed during the medieval period. Example: Everyman. They represented abstract values and vices as characters
- ballads
- songs of the common people. Simple narratives in four line stanzas that served as entertainment and a record of events
- Pardoner's tale Quotes
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-The maid their bargain, swore with appetite
-sit down and let's be merry - Sir Patrick Spens quote
- o wha is this has don this deid
- bonny barbara allan quote
- since my love died for me today, I'll die for him tomorrow
- wife of Usher's well quote
- and their hats were made o' the birk
- Last Kiss quote
- She's gone to Heaven so I've got to be good
- Maxwell's silver hammar quote
- Rose and Valerie screaming from the gallery
- Pardoner's tale plot summary
- COffin carried through town. Death (the plague) is coming for everyone. 3 Friends decide to find death. Meet old man on journey, whoe they assault b/c he's old. OLd man was on journey to find someone to trade ages w/him. so he could be young again. AFter beating, the 3 guys are told that Death passed by and went near tree. At tree, friends find gold. One of them decides they can't go back to town carrying the gold b/c they'll be thought of as thieves. Sraw lots and youngest is sent to get bread.The two plot to kill the youngest. While youngest is off he thinks he can kill the others by giving them rat poisoned wine bottles and keep money for himself. His friends attack and kill him. Then the two drink the poisoned wine and die. Nobody gets fortune.
- Climax of Pardoner's Tale
- when 2 friends kill youngest
- Pardoner's tale type of story
- exempla
- theme of Pardoner's tale
- greed leads to destruction
- Source of Ballads
- medieval period, common people continued oral tradition potery and songs
- topics of ballads
- important events and people, love betrayal, tragedies
- characteristics of ballads
- simple narratives, 4 line stanzas
- Sir Patrick Spens (general storyline)
- King asks for best sailor, who is Patrick. But he does not want to go on King's ship because he knows a storm is coming and that he won't survive. But he goes anyways and lands up halfway to Aberdine 50 fathoms deep.
- Bonny Barbara Allan (general storyline)
- Lover gets drunk and insults Barbara. She refuses to see him at all despite him being sick. He dies from his illness and she feels guilty, so she commits suicide
- Wife of Usher's Well (general storyline)
- Woman's 3 sons drown, woman prays to St. Martin. Sons return from heaven for a night. But they have to return before dawn or they will endure pain.
- Maxwell's silver hammar (general storyline)
- Maxwell asks Joan, a science studentout on a date. WHen he shows up, he kills her. Teacher becomes annoyed with Maxwell in Class and asks him to stay after class. When teacher turns back, he kills her. Maxwell goes to trial, judge want's to put him in jail, but not before max kills him.
- Elizabethan age (renaissance)
- 1485-1660
- leaders of elizabethan age
- King Henry VII, King Henry VIII, Mary, Elizabeth,James I
- events of elizabethan age
- collapse of feudalism, Protestant reformation, end of monastaries, persecution of non protestants, persecution of protestants, Guy Fawkes Day
- Henry VIII wives
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1. catherine of Aragorn (spanish, catholic has one child)
2. Anne boleyn- promises son but has a daughter
3. Jane seymour- has son - sonnet 75 main idea
- immortality in poetry
- ecclesiasties main idea
- life of man
- song of cecilia gustatory imagery
- "Or leave a kis but in the cup, and I'll not look for wine"
- song of cecilia olfactory imagery
- "since when it grows and smells, I swear, not of life itself, but thee"
- psalm 23 main idea
- trust in god
- Salve Deus?Eve's apology (why eve gave fruit)
- share knowledge with Adam
- Passionate Shepherd to his love (promises)
- unrealistic promises
- nymph's reply (accusation)
- none of the shepherd's promises will last
- nymph'e reply image of time
- shepherd
- sonnet 18 metaphor
- eye of heaven- sun
- sonnet 29 image of lark
- day rising- makes him happy
- sonnet 30 tone
- nostalgia
- sonnet 73 images and symbols
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autumn, twilight, glowing embers
=death's approach - sonnet 130 topic
- satirizing court poets
- sonnet 130 main idea
- mistresses' beauty cannot compare
- # of plays shakespeare wrote
- 37
- Shakespeare's theatres
- Black Friars and the GLobe
- setting of Macbeth
- scotland 1040
- how witches influence Macbeth
- make him overly confident and ambitious for crown, eventually makes him paranoid
- what Macbeth lacks according to wife
- manhood
- tragic flaws of Macbeth
- overly ambitious and confident, lack of judgement
- tragic flaws of Lady Macbeth
- ambition and desire to unsex self
- what macbeth sees befor murder
- dagger
- why lady macbeth doesn't murder
- sees father in duncan
- why macbeth raves at empty chair
- thinks he sees banquo's ghost
- why lady macduff calls husband traitor
- b/c he never shows up for coronation or back to their family
- how malcolm tests macduff's loyalty
- says he has more vices than Macbeth
- brief candle
- "out, out brief candle" refes to Lady Macbeth's death... losing her life
- tomorrow speech
- life is meaningless
- holy sonnet 10 device in adressing death
- personification
- meditation 17 decice
-
no man is an island
metaphor - central image in meditation 17
- bell
- to his coy mistress= meaning in last line
- we can't make time stand still
- corrina device
- how Aurora throws her fair... allusion
- Lucasta theme
- without honor there can't be love
- althea- type of poem
- cavalier
- John anderson- We climb the hill together
- metaphor of experience of life together
- world is too much- concept of religion
- paganism
- she dwelt... main idea
- mourning death of sister
- rime of ancient mariner's albatross stands for?
- good luck
- onomatoepeia in Rime of ancient Mariner
- growled and roared
- Ozymandieas' title
- means Ramses II
- Ozymandias meaning of poem
- thought immortal but not
- WHen I have fears type of imager
- agricultural (visual)
- She walk... first line description
- simile describes beauty
- London- name tragedies that occur
- new born's blindness and Newly weds' death by plague
- casabianca- main idea
- devotion and loyalty to father
- tyger
- describes real and symbolic tiger (evil)
- lamb- what is it?
- innocence, a real lamb and Jesus
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Lady of Shallot
Author
Famous work
setting
climax
origin of story
how knights react to death and Lancelot's response
How do we know she's in the towers?
quote -
Alfred Tennyson
Idyls of the King
Shallot
Mirror cracks
Elaine from King Arthur
they cross themselves
she sings
"I am holy sick with shadows" -
Ulysses
kind of poem
meaning
main idea of poem
quotes????
metaphor
parallelism -
Tennysom
dramatic monologue
I am become a name famous
travel one last time
to rust unburnished, not to shine in use
"to strive to seek to find" -
IN memoriam
Author
written to?
Quote
symbol
personification -
Tennyson
elegiac lyric
Arthur Hallam
Tis better tan to loved than to have lost
4 winds
O last regret -
flower in crannied wall
main idea
quote -
tennyson
if i could find the meaning of life i would know everything
i should know what man and god is -
my last dutchess
kind of poem and verse form
identify speaker
story behind poem
quote
symbols -
Robert Browning
dramatic mono; rhyming couplets
Alfonso II, duke of Ferrara
man married girl from Florence of Matachelli family and many believed she was murdered
LHalf hush that diesalong her throat: such stuff was courtesy"
Neptune=duke seahorse=girl -
Dover Beach
setting
theme
quote
allusion -
Matthew Arnold
england cliffs
loss of religious faith
"ah love, let us be true"
heard on the Aegean sea -
darkling thrush
purpose for writing
what thrush does
season and device
alliteration -
thomas hardy
disallusionment with age
it dies
winter, metaphor for death
"Dregs made desolate, eye of day" -
channel firing
meaning of title
main device
mad as hatters
allusion -
hardy
gunnery practiced on english channel
allusion
mercury was used to stuff hats
stourton towers, camelot, stonehenge -
man he killed
diction
main id
quote
ex of diction
irony -
hardy
colliquial
antiwar
i shot him dead because he was my foe
nipperkin
he joined just b/c was out of work -
God's Grandeur
how optimism shown
quote
alltieration
assonance -
hopkins
nature never runs out
holy ghost over the bent..
man's smudge and shared man's smell: the soil
sacred with trade; bleared, smeared with toil -
pied beauty
main idea
who is being praised
alliteration
quote -
Hopkins
beauty in all of god's creations
God
landscape plotted and pieced
he feathers forth... -
Spring and Fall
who is adressed
types of rhyme
main idea
theme -
Rossetti
Margaret
masc. and fem.
man's mortality
man was born to die -
to an athlete
sport
type of device
symbol -
Housman
running
apostrophe
laurels- victory -
when I was 21
advice and what happened -
Housman
don't give heart away, gives it away -
Loveliest of Trees
kind of tree
age
season
age of speakers -
Housman
cherry
three score years and ten
winter
three score years and ten -
Promises like Pie Crust
main idea
poet turned down what?
device of title? -
Rossetti
let's be friends
2 marriage proposals
simile -
A birthday
main device
poet's second birthday -
Rossetti
parallelism
falling in love -
sonnet 43
number of ways loved
main device
how poem ends -
browning
8
repition
let's be friends -
through the looking glass
author's real name
for whom and why -
Caroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Alice Lidell, entertainment (affair) -
Walrus and Carpenter
source of poem
symbol of oysters -
Caroll
Through the Looking Glass
youth