History of English Literature I. INTRODUCTION English literature, literature written in English since c.1450 by the inhabitants of the British Isles; it was during the 15th cent. that the English language acquired much of its modern form. II. The Tudors and the Elizabethan Age The beginning of the Tudor dynasty coincided with the first dissemination of printed matter. William Caxton's press was established in 1476, only nine years before the beginning of Henry VII's reign. Caxton's achievement
the different voices for women in English Renaissance poetry. The notion of gender relates to the fixed gender roles of that period. This assignment mainly deals with the issue of how gender roles are different among male and female poets. In addition, to narrow the research only four Elizabethan poets, who were specialised in religious poetry. Poets such as John Donne, George Herbert, Mary Sidney Herbert and Aemelia Lanyer. The reason for choosing these poets is because their work sometimes portrays
An essay written by Paul Valéry is titled "Le Situation de Baudelaire," translated in the Collected English Works as "The Place of Baudelaire." Our translators may have taken liberties here, for if Valéry wanted to say "place" would he not have said "lieu" or "endroit"? "Place" comes via Middle English and Middle French alike from Latin "platea," a street or courtyard, whereas both the English and French "situation" are straight from Latin "situ," place. Why this detour through etymology, which
in the poem that the weight of a rich poetic tradition has collapsed for the post-Romantic generations, and the unfulfilled attainment of the Sublime has left such a desire, or even simply the notion of it, flattened, slowly decaying, covered in English moss and lichen. The pasturage is an archaeological blank stretching “miles and miles” as deepening twilight “smiles;” its sheep “tinkle homeward.” This tinkling is of the Romantic’s conception of non-compositional, acoustic Nature as opposed to
“Into Battle” are poems with portrayals of the landscapes during war. Each poem uses different literary techniques to express their view on the war. Imagery, oxymoron, emotive language, metaphors, personification and similes are used to portray the landscapes of war. Wilfred Owen uses similes, imagery, oxymoron and emotive language in his poems to portray landscape. The oxymoron of “spring offensive” begins the poem by expressing the oncoming content. With this title, the reader can expect that the landscape
Everyone is judged. It does not matter who they are or what they do with their lives, somebody somewhere makes an assumption about them based on appearances. Peter, the main focus of Mark Doty’s poem “Tiara”, was a cross-dresser. Being outside of the “social norm” made Peter an easy target for bullying and judgment. He was not normal in the slightest, but no one really is. Yet, society expects people to conform to this idea of what people really should be. No one honestly fits that mold, especially
Lady Mary Wroth as Proto-Feminist Lady Mary Wroth is one of very few canonized woman poets in the 17th century canon (Strickland lect. Oct 11 94.). This fact alone lends a type of importance to Wroth that sets her off from her male contemporaries. Wroth wrote poems at about the same time that Robert Herrick, John Donne, Andrew Marvell, and Sir Philip Sidney (to name a few) wrote their courtly lyrics. Wroth wasn't the only woman writer from the time, instead, she was simply one of very few that
Compare and contrast how three poets (in four poems) explore love and its consequences. In this essay, I will be looking at the poems First Love (John Clare), My Last Duchess (Robert Browning), Porphyria's Lover (Robert Browning) and To His Coy Mistress (Andrew Marvell). I will refer to these poems as FL, MLD, PL, and HCM respectively. I will first be looking at what love can do to ones emotions, and then at what people can be capable of doing. Clare has managed to convey what love can
Different Views of War in Poets I will explain the different view of war I have, from the poems written by 4 different poets. The poems I will be writing about are "INTO BATTLE, WHO'S FOR THE GAME, PEACE AND SPRING OFFENSIVE AND FUTILITY". All these poems are based on the 1st World War. "Into Battle by Julian Grenfell. This poem was written at the start of the war, hence the title Into Battle. It starts off with the out look of nature. The naked earth is warm with spring,
nature, Wordsworth was a poet of reflection on things past. He realized however, that the memory of one's earlier emotional experiences is not an infinite source of poetic material. As Wordsworth grew older, there was an overall decline in his prowess as a poet. Life's inevitable change, with one's changes in monetary and social status, affected Wordsworth as well as his philosophies and political stances, sometimes to the chagrin of his contemporaries. Wordsworth, once a poet of social radicalism,
Love, an extremely and unsurprisingly popular topic among writers in every time period and corner of the world, is the central subject of two similar, yet contradicting literary works – “The Passionate Shepard to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe and “The Bait” by John Donne, respectively. Each author masterfully utilizes imagery, but in different ways to achieve two different purposes. Marlowe’s idealistic vision of what love should be is countered by Donne’s rather cynical realism. Both works begin
by people affected by wars to show the contrast and the messages which are portrayed. Two poems which show different views of war are ‘the charge of the light brigade’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson and ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen. Both these poets use linguistic devices to convince the reader of their view of what the war is. Tennyson was related to the queen and therefore he became a laureate. He succeeded William Woodsworth in 1850. One of his famous poems’ he wrote as a laureate was the
individualism. This change is also demonstrated in Sonnet 31 by Sir Philip Sidney were he brings up, “that busy archer,” referring to Cupid (Stanley 4). This shows that poets at the time were not afraid to go against what the Church would deem suitable at the time, so they wrote whatever they felt was best for themselves. The poets translated the idea of becoming more independent and not having to get so much from a higher entity, which could still be translated into
“Into Battle” by Julian Grenfell and “Counter-Attack” by Siegfried Sassoon are two poems with different ways of looking at going into battle. “Into Battle” shows a positive outlook on going to war and is what the young courageous men who signed up for the army would have felt. Grenfell uses soft kind wars even when describing the most horrific moments of war. On the other hand, “Counter-Attack” unlike “Into Battle” is a negative outlook to the war. From the beginning of it there is no hope, the soldiers
Choose two of the poems given in the handout . Compare and contrast these two poems (‘‘Binsey Poplars’’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins and ‘‘The Trees’’ by Philip Larkin), paying close attention to their language and form. In a recent article in The Guardian, Billy Mills writes, ‘Trees have been putting down roots in poetry for centuries’, and indeed there are as many poems about trees as there are species of trees themselves. As someone who grew up surrounded by trees and as a lover of poetry, it was
Search. Web. 15 Dec. 2013 Pinch, Adela. “Rhymes end.” Victorian Studies 53.3(2011):485+. Academic OneFile. Web. 12 Jan. 2014 Cheetham, Paul. “Porphyria’s Lover: Paul Cheetham explores the psychological dimensions of Browning’s Dramatic monologue.” The English Review 20.4 (2010): 21+. Gale Power Search. Web. 15 Dec. 2013 Ross, Catherine. “Browning’s Porphyria's Lover.” The Explicator 60.2 (2002): 68+. Academic OneFile. Web. 12 Jan. 2014
Jessie Pope’s ‘Who’s for the Game’ and Rupert Brooke’s ‘The Solider’ (1914) are common poems that are of pro-war, written during the WW1. As both the poets are very patriotic. It has Pope representing men to enlist for the war in a very encouraging, daring and impatient method. It has Brooke expressing men to enlist for the war in a very subtle not to mention, in a very indirect manner. This is primarily due to it, written in a sonnet form to present how much he adores his country. On the contrary
of Mary Astell and thus believed that marriage itself was a problem to be avoided. Other women rejected the notions of Astell and longed for companionship, although their reasoning differed. Mary Chudleigh’s “The Resolve” provides the reader with a poet inclined to agree with Astell to a large extent, if not entirely. Chudleigh seeks to avoid companionship and instead pursue reason and virtue. In fact, throughout the poem Chudleigh never even mentions companionship as something she is pursuing. Perhaps
gender equality and the abandonment of expected role-playing-- did not arbitrarily become pervasive, but are the product of centuries of incremental progression. The seventeenth century in particular provided a foundation for this progression, as poets for the very first time began to question the dictated structure and male domination of the Elizabethan era. Two poems of the seventeenth century, the cavalier "To Lucasta on Going to the Wars" by Richard Lovelace and the metaphysical "Song" by John
the nature and effects of the problems he identifies in the culture, and encourages the members of the society to remain hopeful of finding a solution. Carlyle identifies problems and trends in the society by close observation. In his contemporary poets are correlations to Carlyle's own work. Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Dante Rossetti, and Algernon Swinburn all exhibit traits in their poetry that relate to Carlyle's ideas about the condition of England. Carlyle wrote that