Alexi Anderson, Kaylin Kozesky, Jason Poruznik, Bekah Schultz
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Background:
(1886-1967)
•Born into a high level English society class
• Lived the life of a country gentleman until WWI started
• He was a patriot and an idealist but after 2yrs his view were
stark and savage depicting trench warfare.
•Diagnosed with shellshock and was put in a hospital where he
met Wilfred Owen
Works:
- Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928)
- The Rear-Guard (1917)
Background:
(1893-1918) • Was interested in experimental techniques and
mastered the half rhyme
•His model was John Keats and he studied the French
poets
•His poetry progress was made in the war trenches and
military hospitals
Work:
• Dulce et Decorum Est
Background:
• Wrote serious idealistic novels dealing with moral
dilemmas and his light entertainments and thrillers
•His intention was to always tell the truth
•His Catholic faith later in life was an important factor to
his writing
Works:
-The Man Within (1929) - his first novel
-Stamboul Train (1932)
-Brighton Rock (1938)
-The Power and the Glory (1940)
-The Destroyers
Background:
(1930-1998)
•Used violent nature imagery to symbolize the human
condition
• Was married to Sylvia Plath
•Was accused of being responsible for her death
•To him, nature represented the darkest impulses of the
human heart
Work:
-Hawk Roosting
Background:
• Ulysses was originally thought too scandalous to be
printed
•Influenced modern writers by portraying the flow of
(1882-1941)
thought
•Used stream of consciousnessattempt to portray the thinking
mind directly
Works:
- Ulysses (1922)
- Araby
Background:
• Began publishing poems when he was a teacher
• Traveled to Italy and while there he began to see
(1885-1930) industrialized England as corrosive and oppressive
•Believed in “blood knowledge”- balancing one’s animal
sense with one’s intellect
Works:
-The Rocking-Horse Winner
Background:
• Wrote most of his most famous works before he was 20
• As a child he was continually torn between a wish to
live up to the expectations of his father and the
(1914-1953)
impulse to please his mother
• His poems are a mix of intricate complication and
preacher-like eloquence
Works:
- “Fern Hill”
- “In my craft or sullen art”
-“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
Background:
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(1894-1963)
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Works:
- Brave New World (1931)
Summary:
• This poem tells or the horrors of a man
stumbling through trenches during WWI. He finds
himself upon the corpse of a soldier.
Literary Terms:
Trench Poet- Poets who wrote “war poetry” but
their work would survive
and continue to serve as a
warning.
hoped
(EX: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen)
Oxymoron- a figure of speech that combines
contradictory ideas.
apparently
Analysis:
•Imagery: helps the audience see the action and
feel the emotions better in the poem.
• Irony: Tell the dead soldier to guide him through
the tunnel
•Oxymoron: rosy gloom
Summary:
• This poem is about the consequences that happen to a soldier
who does not get his mask on promptly.
Literary Terms:
Hyperbole – a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express
strong emotion or create a comic effect.
Simile- A figure of speech that makes
a comparison between
between two seemingly
unlike things by using a
connective world such as
like, as, than, or resembles.
Tone- The attitude a writer takes
toward a reader, a subject,
or a character.
Analysis:
• Oxymoron:
-Ecstasy of fumbling
-Desperate glory
•Simile:
-flound’ring like a man in fire or lime
-obscene as cancer
-bitter as the end of vile
•Tone:
-disgusted
•Hyperbole:
-“His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling fro the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-” (lns20-24).
Summary:
This story is about a gang of young boys who are led by a new
leader named T. Their old leader, Blackie suggests they sneak free
bus rides, but T. wants to destroy Mr. Thomas' house. The only
house that survived the bombing from World War II.
Literary Terms:
Irony– a contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality•between what is said and what is really meant
•between what is expected and what really happens
•between what appears to be true and what really is true
Analysis:
•Irony:
-The house that didn’t get destroyed by bombs got
destroyed by children
T.'s father is an architect and T. ends up destroying a
house
-T. is supposed to lead to build, but leads to
destroy
-The horoscope warned Mr. Thomas, "Danger of
serious crash" and his house ends up being
destroyed
•Theme:
-War destroys innocence.
Summary:
• This poem is about a hawk seeking after its prey and its' thoughts
during the process
Literary Terms:
Personification- giving a creature or object characteristics akin to
human consciousness, desire, and will.
Analysis:
• Personification:
The hawk is introspective and reflective. The hawk knows
what is his and no one can deny him his right to his prey.
Summary:
• This poem is about Sylvia Plath reciting Chaucer in a field.
Literary Terms:
• Imagery- language that appeals to the sense
Analysis:
Imagery:
-spring sky, flying laundry, new emerald of the thorns
Summary:
• A boy falls in love with a young neighbor girl. Eventually he speaks
to her and finds out she is unable to attend the
Araby she wanted to go to. He promises to go to
the carnival and get her a gift. Unfortunately he is
unable to obtain her a gift and has a treacherous
realization.
Literary Terms:
Epiphany- a moment of sudden insight or revelation experienced
by a character
Analysis:
•Irony:
-He went on a quest to get her a gift and
doesn't get it - His love for the girl is
overblown and in the end he gets
nothing in return
•Epiphany:
-He realizes his "love" was for nothing
“I saw myself as a creature driven and
derided by vanity: and my eyes burned
with anguish and anger” (Probst ,990).
Summary:
•A young English woman marries a man with no "luck". She is
constantly haunted by her failures and her children notice it. Paul,
her son wants to help his mother obtain luck.
His childhood rocking horse gives Paul
knowledge of horses that will win the Derby.
In the end, Paul tries to obtain luck and dies in
the process.
Literary Terms:
Theme – the central idea or insight of a work of literature
Literary Terms:
•Theme:
- Materialism leads to the exclusion of more important things
such as love.
Summary:
This poem is a memory of Dylan Thomas' childhood and his
enchanted life in the Welsh countryside.
Literary Terms:
Paradox- An apparent contradiction that is actually true.
Lyric Poetry- Poetry that focuses on
expressing emotions or thoughts,
rather than on telling a story.
Analysis:
•Personification:
- Time is personified when it lets him hail and climb and
play and be
•Paradox:
- He's saying that the lovers are his
audience and who he writes poetry
for but, they don't directly support him.
•Imagery:
-wanderer white with the dew
- spellbound horses walking warm
out of the whinnying green stable
•Lyric poem:
- Focuses on his thoughts and
emotions about his memories of his
childhood.
Summary:
Literary Terms:
Theme-
Analysis:
•Theme:
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Summary:
This poem is an elegy telling a dying man not to surrender to
death, but to challenge it.
Literary Terms:
Elegy- a poem that mourns death of a person or laments something
lost.
Analysis:
•Metaphors:
- good night being compared to death
- light compared to life
Summary (Part 1):
Brave New World begins in the year 2495 in the central
London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre where the
Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning, Thomas, is
explaining the decanting process and how people are
produced in their society. The society creates these children
and then conditions them to seek out sex and
entertainment, but not to like nature or read books.
Children are also taught to stay within their caste system.
The caste system (in descending order) consists of the Alpha
s, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. This society also
worships their god, Ford and is controlled emotionally by
the drug named Soma.
Summary (Part 2):
As the plot moves on, it focuses on the flaws of the
“utopian” society. Bernard Marx is scrutinized for being
shorter than the average alpha which begins his questioning
about the society. While his friend, Helmholtz Watson feels
he should show emotion in his writing which is considered
blasphemy in the new society. Also, Lenina is participating
in a monogamous relationship. When Lenina and Bernard
go on a date they both talk about how they would like to go to the
reservation and see the savages. When they do go there
they realize a boy named John is the son of the D.H.C.
John is taken to the New Society and taught their ways.
The story continues with his struggle to figure out where
he fits in; in the Reservation or the New Society. In the end,
the burdens are too much and he ends his life.
Analysis:
Utopian society and Dystopian society
•The novel is a satirical novel. Showing how horrible a
future could be with complete government control.
• Advancement of technology can lead to the destruction of
a society.
•Henry Ford- Allusion
Symbols:
Soma- government’s control over emotions
•Malthusian belt- Promiscuity and consumerism
•John’s Death- compass; cant find direction in life, doesn’t
belong anywhere
Heroes:
Bernard Marx- anti-hero
•John the Savage- Epic hero
Edgar Allan Poe
created the most influential theoretical foundations for the
short story.
-read in one sitting= more effective and unified
-people in extreme states both physically or emotionally
Literary Terms (1):
Closure- the feeling that one has reached a
satisfactory conclusion
Trick ending- surprising twist ending
Realism- a literary movement that developed in the latter part of the
19th century; portrayed life as it really was and not what
they wished or feared it to be
A realist painting- depicting apples as they are not as they
wished or feared
Literary Terms (2):
Slice of life- snapshots of a variety of places and social class
Psychological realism- character’s perceptions and motivations in a
story
Dramatic irony- readers knowing more than the character in a story
3 Concepts:
1. It is more likely to concerned with nuances of character than with
construction of fast paced plot
1. It is more apt to imply important facts and psychological truths
than to state directly
1. It is more to apt to move toward a revelation of
truth than to an effect
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Probst, Robert E., Robert Anderson, and John Leggett. Elements of Literature.
Literature of Britain with World Classics. Sixth Course ed. Austin: Holt,
Rinehart and Winston, 2000. Print.