Ode on Melancholy

drops dead.” (6, 12, 18). This repetition expounds that the speaker is shutting out her emotion and has a constant obsession with the perfect image she made of the guy in her head. The Tone of Sylvia Plath’s “Mad Girl’s Love Song” is Melancholy. The speaker is somber and yearns for the love she lost. Plath uses “Mad Girl’s Love Song” to illustrate that love isn’t as beautiful as we think it is. Oftentimes, we look through rose-colored glasses and not at the bigger picture which is why

I also disagreed with “The Storm” by Kate Chopin, because it suggested that it is possible to be with more than one person at any given point. To me, love is trust, and without trust, love is nonexistent. Marriage is a commitment, a promise to be both trusting and trustful. To betray that agreement is not to love. Calixata expresses “nothing but satisfaction at their safe return” (727) and this reader has to wonder how she cannot feel guilt. Alcee wrote a “loving letter” to his wife, and this reader

poem of mourning, usually over death of an individual. It may also be a lament over the passing of life and beauty or a meditation over nature of death. An elegy is a type of lyrical poem, usually formal in language and structure and solemn or even melancholy in tone. Acrostic: In acrostic poems, the first letter of each line of each line of the poem is aligned vertically to form a word. Generally, the word formed thus, is the subject of the poem. Ballad: Ballads are narrative poems that are supposed

The age of manufacturing that preceded the Romantic Movement was characterized by industrialization and scientific, professional thinking. The philosophy of the era teaches that thoughts and assertions are only meaningful if they can be confirmed with evidence or valid reasoning. As a result, any assertion about entities from the abstract or conceptual alike, whether a statement about mermaids and unicorns or God and nature, is considered meaningless since they cannot be confirmed by factual report

Literary Terms Packet The terms in this packet will be used throughout the semester in literature discussions and on exams. Please memorize and be able to use and identify all terms in papers and on exams. Some information in this packet came from Modern English by Arnold Lazarus, et.al. and A Dictionary of Literary, Dramatic, and Cinematic Terms by Sylvan Barnet, et.al. Allusion A reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics or some other

Fear in Wordsworth's My heart leaps up when I behold, We Are Seven, Tintern Abbey, and Resolution and Independence Fear in Wordsworth's "My heart leaps up when I behold", "We Are Seven", "Tintern Abbey", and "Resolution and Independence" Romantic poetry conjures in the mind of many people images of sweet, pastoral landscapes populated by picturesque citizens who live in quaint houses in rustic villages, with sheep grazing on green-swathed hills, while a young swain plights his troth to his

Nature in All its Glory: Wordsworth Versus Keats With William Wordsworth and John Keats, they were two highly distinct poets that allow the audience to continue to explore and rebound back to Nature over and over. They illustrate in different manners how nature is so powerful due to the spirit of humankinds found in such Nature. They both “romanced” such a period that aided in the revival of humankind and how humans demonstrate nature and life itself. Wordsworth believed our teacher was Nature and

Film Noir's Effect on Modern Cinema High heels click on wet pavement, shady detectives stand in the shadows, shots ring out through the cold, dark city night-just another moment in film noir. These seedy, almost underground films are considered to be some of the best and most influential pictures in the history of Hollywood by anyone's standards, most certainly some of the darkest. Even though the glory days of film noir have long passed and given way to big budget productions, their influence

traditions. Petrarch: Petrarch was born on July 20, 1304, in Arezzo, Tuscany. He was a classical scholar who was considered the "Father of Humanism". There was a philosophy that helped spark the Renaissance. Petrarch 's writing included well known odes to Laura. Laura was known as his lover. Petrarch was writing and was also used to shape the modern Italian language. He passed away at age of 69 in 1374.

The Most Schizophrenic Literary Terms Mixtape in Existence 1. Allegory "Hotel California"- Eagles Contrary to a seemingly pervasive belief, the Eagles' "Hotel California" isn't an ode to Satanism. Rather, the song serves as an ominous warning about the self destructive nature of greed and as a pointed criticism of the wildly hedonistic lifestyle frequently espoused during the 1970s. The "Hotel California" spoken of in the song serves as an allegory for a lifestyle that is undeniably alluring,