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Jonathan Swift "A Depiction of the Morning"
Burlesque- High poetic form decribing "low" life Descriptive Verse- Describes particular places or events in a way that elevates them -
Anne Finch "A Nocturnal Reverie"
Repetition of phrase "In such a night" is an allusion to Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice Anemographia: creates an illusion of reality through description of the wind -
John Gay "Trivia: Book III Of Walking the Streets at Night"
Broken into 23 sections, labelled in the margin of the page Rhyme scheme Heroic couplets -
William Hogarth "The Four Times of the Day
Moring / Noon / Evening / Night Every day lives and entertainments of the common people of London (circa 1700) -
Elizabeth Hands "A Poem, on the Supposition of an advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant-Maid"
Poem uses anapestic tetrametre anapest= triple metre: 2 unstressed syllables followed by a stressed tetrametre= a four stress line -
Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Frost at Midnight"
Conversation Poem General Pattern:
-Pleasant sanctuary established
-Imaginative flight of fancy
-Return to fantasy with new, or altered, perspective -
William Wordsworth "I wandered lonely as a cloud"
Wordsworth claims good poetry should in no respect differ from good prose. His sister's journal features an alternative prosaic take on Wordsworth's poem -
Anne Bronte "The Tennant of Wildfell Hall"
Secrecy, Silnce, Mystery, is a focus that allows Bronte to morph the Gothic into a Social novel. -
James Albert Calow
My Great-Great grandfather is born. He is an orphan, no records. -
Abolition of Slavery
Slavery is abolished. The work of Douglass and thousnds of others yields results. -
Dominion of Canada forms
Many of these great works were written, and ideas in arts and literature being explored before our country even existed. -
Gerard Manley Hopkins "Pied Beauty"
Poem in praise of spots Alliteration: the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables -
Frederick Douglass from The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Why is this a literary text?
-Highly constructed text
-Uses rhetoric in episodes to create greater meaning or significance
-and orient the reader towards a particular way of thinking that could be new to them -
Thomas Calow
My great grandfather is born -
James Joyce "Araby"
Romanticizes the middle east Illusion is shattered by the end of the story -
Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
Poetic Diction: "specialized language which is peculiar to poetry" (Chris Baldick) Peignoir is a kimono sort of hous coat. -
Issac Rosenberg "Break of Day in the Trenches"
Rosenberg was killed on the Western front April 1, 1918 Described his poetry as simple poetry: "where an interesting complexity of thought is kept in tone and right value to the dominating idea so that it is understandable and still ungraspable" Relevant Terms:
-Euphony
-Cacophony
-Alliteration
-Assonance
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Women's suffrage
Women gain the right to vote in Canada Themes from Elizabeth Hand's "A Poem, on the Supposition of an Advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant-Maid" and Anne Bronte's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" are finally realized as women are empowered (except in Quebec where the vote was withheld until 1940) -
Thomas James Calow
My grandfather is born -
Blackhawk Billy Mosienko
In one game against the New York Rangers Billy scored 3 goals in 21 seconds. He left the league in 1955. This gives a frame of reference for "Blueprints", Mosienko is still a name to the narrator's mother and Mel seems to reognize him when he knocks on Mosienko's door. Placing them roughly as contemporaries? -
Thomas Anthony Calow
My father is born -
Shelagh Delaney "A Taste of Honey"
Kitchen Sink Drama: -Post WWII working class british drama and film
-Counter discursive
-gritty realism
- domestic setting
-perspective of the underclass
-Angry young men
-promotes anti-hero -
Rita Dove "Kentucky 1933"
Prose Poem: A short composition employig the rhythmic cadences and other devices of free verse (such as poetic imagery and figures) but printed wholly or partly in the format of prose. -A prose poem is a self-contained work usually similar to a lyric, whereas poetic prose may occur intermittently within a longer prose work -
Rita Dove "Daystar"
Rita Dove was poet Laureate for the United States from 1993 to 1995 And Poet Laureate for the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2004 to 2006 She won a Pulitzer prize in poetry in 1987 -
Li-Young Lee "Persimmons"
Persimmon: An edible fruit, grows on trees, most popular variety is from Asia -
Thomas Alexander Ross Calow
I am born -
Swing Low: A Life
Miriam Toews publishes a memoir tod from her father's perspective, and including elements of the story "Blueprints" 5 years before the story is published. -
Alice Munro "Meneseteung"
Metafiction: Fiction about fiction; fiction that openly acknowledges its fictional status -
Miriam Toews "Blueprints"
Types of First Person Narration: -Limited first person
-Sometimes Supported by an omnicient narrator
-unreliable narrator?
-dramatic monologue (strict separation between author and narrator/speaker)
-fictionalied autobiography
