1.Dickinson ; Whitman
2.Yoknapatawpha
3.Tales of the Jazz Age
4.Jazz Age
5.William Faulkner
6.Character
7.Song of Myself
8.University Wits
9.Sordello and A Blot on the Scutcheon
10.Bronte Sisters
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1.Geoffrey Chaucer is the father of English poetry. The tales talked about the pilgrims are people from various parts of England, representatives of various walks of life and social groups. Each of the narrators tells his tale in a peculiar manner, thus revealing his own views and character.
2.Two features:
(1) the principle person addressed by the poet is not a woman but a young man and a mysterious dark lady.
(2) the structure of three quatrains and a concluding couplet is typically Shakespearean.
3.The “native hue of resolution” means the natural color of resolution; The “pale cast of thought” stands for Hamlet’s anxiety and melancholy; In these lines, the ruddy color is associated with the sad temperament and the pale look of melancholy. They express hamlet’s anxiety and hesitation before he takes the firm resolution to revenge at the critical moment.
4.His principle achievement lies in his introducing to English poetry the dramatic monologue.
5.The story opens with the titular heroine, Jane Eyre, a plain little orphan. It sharply criticizes the existing society, e.g, the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions such as Lowood School where poor girls are trained. It introduced the first governess to English novel.
6.Wordsworth is regarded as a "Worshipper of nature ". He can penetrate to the heart of things and give the reader the very life of nature . To Wordsworth , nature acts as a substitute for imaginative and intellectual engagement . It's nature that give him "strength and knowledge full of peace ."
1.Three periods:
1) Period of historical plays and comedies. This period is characterized by happiness and optimism. This period can be further put into two phases: the phase of apprenticeship and the phase of maturation.
2) Period of tragedies. This period is characterized by gloom.
3) Period of romances or tragic-comedies. This period is characterized by reconciliation.
2. 1) This part is a superb expression of a double view of the Canterbury pilgrimage. The first 11 lines are a chant of welcome to the spring with its harmonious marriage between heaven and earth which produces vegetations, pricks fouls and stirs the heart of man with e renewing power of nature. Thus, the pilgrimage is an event in the calendar of nature, an aspect of springtime surge of human energy which wakens man’s love of nature. But spring is also the season of Easter and is allegorically regarded as the time of the Redemption through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ with its connotations of religious rebirth which wakens man’s love of God. Therefore, the pilgrimage is also an event in the calendar of divinity, an aspect of religious piety which draws pilgrims to holy places.
2) The transition from nature to divinity is emphasized by contrast between the physical vitality which conditions the pilgrimage and the spiritual sickness which occasions the pilgrimage. As well as by parallelism between the renewal power of nature and the restorative power of supernature.
3) He introduced various rhymed stanzas to English poetry to replace the Old English alliterative verse. He first introduced into English octasyllabic couplet and then the heroic couplet.