1.Beowulf
2.Geoffrey Chaucer
3. Sonnet 18
4.Carpenter
5.Robert Frost’s
6.Jazz Age
7.the simple country life
8.To be , or not to be
9.Gothic
10.Poems
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1.Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey have often been mentioned as the "Lake Poets" because they lived in the Lake District in the northwestern part of England. The three traversed the same path in politics and in poetry, beginning as radicals and closing as conservatives. They are part of the Poetic Revolution, which was started as a rebellion against the Neoclassical literature.
2.Shakespeare has been and is still one of the greatest playwrights the world has ever had. He was born and raised in Stratford-on-Avon. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer and part owner of a playing company, later known as The King’s Men. After he retired to Stratford in 1610, he still went on writing. He died in 1616. Shakespeare wrote altogether 37 plays and 154 sonnets. His contribution to the development of drama is tremendous. His major works are As You Like It, The Twelfth Night, Hamlet, King Lear and The Winter’s Tale.
3.1) Conscience and over-considerations.
2) He wants to revenge, but doesn’t know how;
2) He wants to kill his uncle, but find it too risky;
3) He lives in despair and wants to commit suicide;
4)however, he knows if he dies, nobody will comfort his father’s ghost. He is in face of great dilemma.
4.It refers to the time in 1930s after the World War I when there was a financial boom. It is about life and fate of young men who indulged in stimulus and pleasure, and about disillusionment of American dream. Fitzgerald was the literary spokesman for the Jazz age.
5.1) Dickinson’s poems are usually based on her own experiences, her sorrows and joys. But within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern the whole human beings, which include religion, death, immortality, love, and nature.
2) Her masterpiece—"I heard a Fly buzz—when I died", she looked at death from the point of view of both the living and the dying. She even imagined her own death, the loss of her own body, and the journey of her soul to the unknown.
3) The style of Dickinson:
A: A particular stress pattern: dash“-------”
B: Capital letters as a means of emphasis;
C: Language: brief, direct, and plain;
D: Poem: short, always on single image or symbol (e.g."I like to see it lap the miles"---------describe a train in the personification of the literary device)
E: Her poems tend to be personal and meditative (e.g.“Because I could not stop for Death”).
6.There are different opinions about what can be called elements of fiction. Generally speaking, there are six elements: plot, character, setting, theme, point of view and style.
1.A thousand reader will have a thousand hamlet. Hamlet is neither a frail and weak-minded youth nor a thought-sick bookworm.
1) Hamlet is a humanist, a man who is free from medieval prejudices and superstitions.
2) He loves the good and hates the evil. He adores his father, loves Ophelia and greets his school-fellows with hearty welcome, while he is disgusted with his uncle’s drunkenness and shocked by his mother’s shallowness. A king and a beggar are all one to him. His democratic tendency is based on his humanist thought.
3) His intellectual genius is outstanding. He is a close observer of men and manners.
4) Hamlet is not a mere scholar, and his nature is by no means simply meditative.
5) On the contrary, Hamlet is a man of genius, highly accomplished and educated, a man of far-reaching perception and sparking wit. He is a scholar, soldier and statesman. His image reflects the versatility of the men of the Renaissance.
6) Hamlet is made a hero of the Renaissance period and the representative of humanism. Through him William Shakespeare expressed his own humanist ideas.
2.1) In stanza 1, the narrator presents two similes, the first comparing his love to a rose and the second comparing his love to a melody. In stanza 2, the narrator addresses the young lady as bonnie. In the last line of the stanza, he presents hyperbole, a figure of speech that exaggerates. In stanza 3, the man promises eternal love for her. In stanza 4, the poet vows to love her however far he may go.
2) Because this poem professes the poet’s true love for his beloved girl, and uses the mentioned above to touch the readers.