ENGL200B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, Narrative Poetry
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Summarize the main events in the lives of wordsworth and coleridge, and name the poetic joint venture by the two men. Recognize a lyrical ballad and analyze wordsworth"s use of the form in we are seven . Identify the revolutionary claims made about his poetry by wordsworth in his preface. Critically evaluate his idea of the real language of men as well as his reasoning for choosing low and rustic life . Apply m. h. abram"s classification of the greater romantic lyric and analyze how it functions. Analyze the effect of dialogue between a speaker and a child, and between a speaker and a silent auditor. Critique the idea of adult wisdom and experience. Evaluate the romantic idea of nature, including the ideal connection between the human world and the natural world, and the special relationship between the speaker"s creativity and creativity in the natural world. William wordsworth: excerpt from preface to lyrical ballads the subject and.