primera semana de clases de poéticos, Apuntes de Filología Inglesa

¡Descarga primera semana de clases de poéticos y más Apuntes en PDF de Filología Inglesa solo en Docsity! Line: verso Stanza: estrofa Rhythm: ritmo (“riden como se pronuncia”) Rhyme: rima Rethorical devices Repetition of sounds and words Alliteration: Use of several nearby words or stressed syllables beginning with the same consonant. “O wild west wind” (representation of the sound of the wind) Assonance: Repetition of a vowel sound. Anaphora: repetition of words at the beginning of line sor clauses so that an effect of emphasis is produced If I were a dead stanza 1 If a were a swift stanza 2 Different ideas to create an effect Epistrophe: ending a series of lines with the same Word: no veremos Epanalepsis: the Word is ocurred at the beginning of the line and repeated at the end of the line. Anadiplosis: Repetition of the last Word of one line at the beginning of the next. Gradatio (or climax): a sentence construction in which the last Word of one clause becomes the first of the next, through three or more clauses (like and extended anadiplosis). Repetition of words Polyptoton: Repetition of words of the same root with different endings (or prefixes). Antanaclasis: The repetition of a word whose meaning changes in the second instance. “And he watched that she had no watch. Diacope: Repetition of words with one or some words in between “She, dear she” (sidney); “to be or not to be” (Shakespeare) Epizeuxis: Repetition of words with no others between “war,war,war”. Syntax Asyndeton: joins words or phrases by commas only; the polysindeton by conjunctions. Parallelism: the parallel construction of phrases is varied by Chiasmus, repetition in inverted order. All honour´s mimic, all wealth alchemy A is B, C is D. Chiasmus person female is state, prince is person male Ruler is male Enjambment (run-on-line) creates the effect that the idea continues in the next sentence An emphasis: highlights a Word by placing it in an unusual position in the line Hyperbaton: the common Word order in a sentence is reversed. Meaning: Metaphor: Word or phrase designates one thing that is used to designate another thus making an implicit comparison. Her teeth are like pearls: teeth A pearls B : comparison or simile. The pearls of her mouth: metaphor want to idealize the lady and say how beautiful she is. Metonymy: substitution of a Word/phrase with another closely associated with it: capitol hill: represents the U.S. congress (association) refers to the people who work there, not to the people themselves. Synechdoque: Symbol: a Word that has literal meaning. Alternative idnetity or menaing that represents something else. Hyperbole: a delibérate exaggeration: “erase un hombre a una nariz pegado”. Pun: play on words (for humoroues effects, usually). Irony: when the meaning intended is the opposite of what is said. Oxymoron: combination of ocntradictory words about the same thing (an open secret). It is a kind of antithesis. Paradox: use of concept sor ideas contradictory to one another (I can resiste anything but temptation) Allegory: transforms a general and abstract concept into a concrete image, person or story. Ex: idea of love, justice exists as abstract turn into characters. Personification. My Heart Leaps Up William Wordsworth, 1770 - 1850 Rainbow at the beginning and nature at the end, so nature is present at the very beginning and also at the very end, circularity of the poem in relation to nature. A rainbow is not forever because it depends on the light, it is an ethereal part of the nature; he is contemplating this rainbow, and after the rainbow comes the rest, he contemplates the rainbow and gets the rest of the poem. Piety: devotion to nature. Just beholding and contemplating the rainbow. Contemplation beauty realization of the world. There is an interconnection between nature and the poem. Renaissance Poetry Elizabethan poetry (1558-1603) Shakespear 1608 he was an Elizabethan writer. Renaissance poetry: influenced by classical modelss and genres. New learning: Humanism children went to school in order to learn latin and reading the classics. Platonism: duality Full of mythological references to the Gods and myth of antiquity, but more and more drawing on the native tradition. Countryside, images of nature. Emphasis on musicality, elegance and decorum. Influence by Petrarch, who established the language of love. Veneration of the lady as the symbol of purity, the concept of love as transcending the mere physical attraction (Platonism) Splendore of the Virgin Queen. Humanism (started in the 15th century) intelectual movement flourishing of leters and arts influenced by the recovery and study of classical texts and arts. 1485: Caxton printed Malory´s Morthe de Arthur; books spread country, now printed. Critical debates about literatura specially at Oxford. Literary patronage: COurtiers bécame supporters ov poets and the arts. Castiglione´s II Cartigiano (1528/1561) set the model of soldier poet courtier should be the model of soldier poet. Man is a good fighter but sensitive to arts and letters. The Courtier Knowledge of classical literatura and history. Skilled in the arts (composer, poet…). Good converser, trained to rule and to be magnanimous. Modes of Elizabethan Poetry Lyric mode. Pastoral mode: idealized world inhabited by shepherds and shepherdesses. They tend their flocks, fall in love and engage in poetry (love, pains, passion, moods, pleasures). Satirical mode: ridiculed and scorneden certain attitude in society (from lawyers and merchants to fools and lovers) chiefly in rhymed iambic pentameters. Epigrams (short of satirical poems) are typically Elizabethan.