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Writers idealized human beings thought to be closer to their emotions: ... "idiots" [mentally disabled people], Native Americans. All these characters speak in .... For example, Wordsworth "..."
Keats met and became engaged with a young woman, ...1820 fell ill with tuberculosis Fall 1820 went to live in Italy; died in ...
Romantic poets looked for lyric forms in older poetic traditions, beyond the neo-classical period of the early 18th century: the ...
In ... Keats wrote his...great odes, esp. "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode to a Nightingale". Intimate connection with ...
Sonnet writing: ...., .... Sonnets (...). Very popular. Smith (1749-1806) wrote poems and novels to support her large family after she left her improvident husband.
"Ode to a Nightingale" is about..., where "but to think is to be full of sorrow". The speaker addresses a nightingale, who seems to represent ... he wants to join the nightingale in the world of nature. As in many of Keats's poems, the speaker is led to question "fancy", the imagination, and poetry itself.
Sonnet: ...two parts: express a change in feelings....- sonnet craze. Then in the middle of 17th century it virtually disappeared.
New conception of form: form is not provided by poetic tradition but is ...first ... poem in English: William.... in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790):
Critics and readers have seen the publication of Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge as the ...
Language becomes more ...,starting from Wordsworth's preface "emotion recollected in tranquility"
Emphasis on emotion was reaction against the "Age of Reason", the era of modern ....which begins in the....
We also find in the eighteenth century an identification of ....In Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Essai sur l'origine des langues (c.1755), Rousseau argues that speech does not communicate passion: ... the passion involved in speaking to another human being. Wordsworth in a note to his poem "The Thorn", published in Lyrical Ballads, speaks of words as "not only as symbols of the passion, but as things, active and efficient, which are of themselves ...".
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expresses the author's feelings and emotions about a subject
The sonnet as a form was developed in italy during what century?
what type of poetry is a villanelle
Who wrote the love letter polonius reads to Claudius and Gertrude? Why does he read it?
"What piece of work is man, how mobile in reason how infinite in faculties...in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god..."
A similar (pretty much interchangeable) word for meiosis is what?
Is onomatopoeia a type of figurative language?