ENGL 3022 : Exam 1 Study Guide
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What is poetry: wordsworth describes his goal in literature to make his ordinary subjects become extraordinary. He takes the every day settings like the countryside, provincial people, etc. and throws the color of imagination over the ordinary. : he defines poet and poetry three times poetry is the image of man and nature p. It is lyrical/musical repetitive meter, rhyme, short lines of poetry (four stresses or less), obvious rhyme scheme: technique: the color of imagination, quotations, yet some maintain that to this day/she is a living child/that you may see sweet. Cdeedc: functional definition within the prescriptive definition, function of the octave: describes, asks, poses a problem/question, function of sestet: answers the question/problem or evaluates the octave, the sonnet is an open form in terms of subject matter. Raise us up, return to us again! : special features, olfactory image, church, military, writers.
