ENGL 3002 Midterm

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Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Man" - neoclassical
Phillis Wheatley, “Thoughts on the Works of Providence” - neoclassical
Thomas Gray, "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat" - neoclassical - didactic
Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" - neoclassical
Anna Laetitia Barbauld “The Mouse’s Petition"
Robert Burns, "To A Louse" - burns stanza - epigrammatic
Robert Burns, "To a Mouse" - burns stanza - epigrammatic
William Blake, “Introduction” to Songs of Innocence - Romantic - art with nature
William Blake, "The Lamb" - Romantic - moving from symbolism to emotional encounters
William Blake, "The Tyger" - Romantic - moving from symbolism to emotional encounters
William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" - Romantic - the creation as a fall
William Blake, "The Chimney Sweeper" - Romantic - epigrammatic
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Eolian Harp” - Romantic - poet as instrument - inspiration
William Wordsworth, "Lines Written at a Small Distance from my House" - Romantic
William Wordsworth, “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads - Romantic - instances of expansion (via poetry)
William Wordsworth, “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” - Romantic - inspiration - nature
insert Lord Byron, “Darkness” - Romantic - inspiration - nightmares
insert Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias” - Romantic - presence of the past
Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” - Romantic - inspiration - poet as instrument
Percy Bysshe Shelley, excerpt from “A Defence of Poetry” - Romantic - inspiration - poet as instrument - role of art
insert John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” - Romantic - mortality, time - frozen in happy moment (?) - presence of the past
insert John Keats, "Bright Star” - Romantic - mortality, time
insert Felicia Hemans, “The Image in Lava” - Romantic - mortality, time (similar questions as Keats' "Grecian Urn") - presence of the past
insert Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus" - the Sublime - contrasted w cramped spaces in the novel (ex; the hovel)
insert Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus" - the domestic / the desire for the domestic
insert Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus" - isolation - sympathy (or lack thereof)
Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus" - myths and acts of creation - parallel to potential horrors of Romantic inspiration
insert Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Minister’s Black Veil” - symbolic ambiguity - we all have hidden sin; our own black veils
insert Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” - symbolic ambiguity - had she been otherwise imperfect, mark = less noticeable - disability studies perspective
slides not posted? anyone have specific passages they remember being discussed? Edgar Allan Poe, “The Man of the Crowd”
slides not posted? anyone have specific passages they remember being discussed? Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat”
slides not posted? anyone have specific passages they remember being discussed? Walt Whitman, “Edgar Poe's Significance,” from Specimen Days
insert Herman Melville, "Benito Cereno" - settler colonial setting - cognitive dissonance of the White Northerner - gothic language
insert Herman Melville, "Benito Cereno" - 19th century racism - cognitive dissonance of the White Northerner
insert Herman Melville, "Benito Cereno" - Babo's Theatre and African political strategy - Haitian revolution
insert Herman Melville, "Benito Cereno" - how is history written? - limits of the archive, the violence that produces it
excerpts not on slides; review text Frederick Douglass, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave"
insert Robert Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover” - Victorian poet - first person - male desire is affected by power and possessiveness in objectification of women
insert Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess” - Victorian poet - first person - male desire is affected by power and possessiveness in objectification of women
insert Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market” - Victorian poet - sisterhood - female desire
idk which dickinson excerpts to pull dickinson!
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