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John Keats
"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" |
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| MUCH have I travell'd in the realms of gold, |
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And many goodly states and kingdoms seen...
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| Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes |
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| He stared at the Pacific—and all his men |
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| Look'd at each other with a wild surmise— |
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| Silent, upon a peak in Darien. |
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John Keats
"La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad" |
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I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci
Thee hath in thrall!” |
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John Keats
"Ode to a Nightingale" |
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| Was it a vision, or a waking dream? |
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| Fled is that music:—do I wake or sleep? |
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John Keats
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" |
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| Thou, silent form! dost tease us out of thought |
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As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!...
| ...'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all |
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| Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.' |
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Mattew Arnold
"The Buried Life" |
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Definition
Yes, yes, we know that we can jest,
We know, we know that we can smile!
But there's a something in this breast,
To which thy light words bring no rest,...
...But often, in the world's most crowded streets,
But often, in the din of strife,
There rises an unspeakable desire
After the knowledge of ______;....
...Only--but this is rare--
When a beloved hand is laid in ours,...
...A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast,
And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again. |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browing
"From Sonnets from the Potugese: 21" |
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Say thou dost love me, love me, love me—toll
The silver iterance!—only minding, Dear,
To love me also in silence with thy soul. |
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Break, Break, Break" |
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On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!...
..._______________
At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me. |
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Tears, Idle Tears" |
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Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more. |
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"The Lady of Shalott" |
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Definition
She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces thro' the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She look'd down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott. |
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Robert Browning
"Love Among the Ruins" |
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Robert Browing
"My Last Duchess" |
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| This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive. |
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These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown
Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain. |
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Thomas Hardy
"The Darkling Thrush" |
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...The land's sharp features seemed to be
The Century's corpse outleant...
...So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware.
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Thomas Hardy
"Channel Firing" |
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...And many a skeleton shook his head.
“Instead of preaching forty year,”
My neighbour Parson Thirdly said,
“I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer.”... |
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Thomas Hardy
"During Wind and Rain" |
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...Ah, no; the years O!
How the sick leaves reel down in throngs!...
...Ah, no; the years, the years,
See, the white storm-birds wing across...
...Ah, no; the years O!
And the rotten rose is ript from the wall...
...Ah, no; the years, the years
Down their carved names the rain-drop ploughs.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
"God's Grandeur" |
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| THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God. |
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| It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; |
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| It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil |
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| Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? |
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Generations have trod, have trod, have trod...
...There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;...
| ...Because the Holy Ghost over the bent |
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| World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings. |
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
"Pied Beauty" |
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Glory be the God for dappled things-...
...Praise him. |
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William Butler Yeats
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" |
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Definition
...I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core. |
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William Butler Yeats
"When You Are Old" |
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| ...But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, |
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| And loved the sorrows of your changing face... |
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William Butler Yeats
"Easter, 1916" |
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| ...A terrible beauty is born... |
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William Butler Yeats
"The Wild Swans at Coole" |
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| ...But now they drift on the still water |
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| Mysterious, beautiful; |
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| Among what rushes will they build, |
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| By what lake’s edge or pool |
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| Delight men’s eyes, when I awake some day |
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| To find they have flown away? |
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William Butler Yeats
"The Second Coming" |
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...The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity...
...That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? |
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William Butler Yeats
"A Prayer for My Daughter" |
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...May she be granted beauty and yet not
Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught,
Or hers before a looking-glass... |
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William Butler Yeats
"Leda and the Swan" |
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...A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
Being so caught up,
So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?
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William Butler Yeats
"Sailing to Byzantium" |
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That is no country for old men...
...Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity... |
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William Butler Yeats
"Among School Children" |
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...O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance? |
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William Butler Yeats
"The Circus Animals Desertion" |
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...Players and painted stage took all my love,
And not those things that they were emblems of...
...Now that my ladder's gone,
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. |
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Dylan Thomas
"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" |
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Definition
...Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the night. |
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W.H. Auden
"Musee des Beaux Arts" |
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...In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster... |
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| Poetry that discusses art |
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| 14 lines with a regular rhyme scheme |
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Negative Capabilty
(John Keats) |
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| The ability to be in doubts, uncertainty, mysteries-without strainging after fact or reason |
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| A 19-line poem of fixed form consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain. |
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| What was the main focus in the Romantic Era? |
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| Order, logic, and reason. |
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| What was the main focus in the Victorian Era? |
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| Political, social, and cultural innovation and change |
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| What was the main focus in the Modern Era? |
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Wilfred Owen
"Anthem for Doomed Youth" |
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| What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?... |
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