PPT-Cockney School of Poets

Based in London Romantic Poets Named cockney as an insult in 1817 calling them unsophisticated amateurs Poets were criticized by an anonymous person in a magazine John Keats . To understand that there are many external factors that influence our choice and language and cause it to ‘come out’ the way it does.. To understand that we all make judgements based on how people talk.. G Cockney rhyming slang is a pretty simple if somewhat odd affair. It basically consists of a couplet of words, the second of which rhymes with the word you ’ re actually aiming at. For exampl Name: Period: Date: Ms. Lopez Pygmalion : Cockney numbers of lower - class Londoners who live within the sound of Bow bells, the bells of the church of St. Mary leBow. Read this line from the play al Why were they called the “Fireside Poets”?. Families would sit around the fireplace reading and discussing their favorite poems. . Remember, this was before electricity provided lighting, radio, television, or video games. . William Wordsworth. born April 7, 1770, in . Cockermouth. , Cumberland, to John and Anne (Cookson) Wordsworth, the second of their five children. 1787 - went to . St. John's College, Cambridge. Went to France in 1791 (during French Revolution). Take notes in your AP Lit. binder under the “journal” section.. This week:. Membean. quiz next class. Romanticism quiz Friday. Where it all began…. The . Enlightenment . (philosophical movement in 18. LITERARY THEORY FROM PLATO TO T. S. ELIOT. DR. IDA BAIZURA BAHAR. GREEK CRITICISM:. Plato. Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece. . He . was also a mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. . Define the following. Metaphor. Simile. Personification. Alliteration. Imagery. Give me an example. End Rhyme. Alliteration. Onomatopoeia. Assonance. -Why do poets use the above sound devices?. Imagery. An Introduction. The term . "metaphysical" refers to philosophical speculations beyond the sensory: notions such as time, God, human . nature, faith, death, love, eternity. Metaphysical Poetry. The . Senior Assistant Professor. Department of English & Other Foreign Languages,. Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi. What is Metaphysical Poetry?. A new kind of poetry, known as the Metaphysical Poetry began with John Donne. The term ‘Metaphysical’ as applied to poetry was first used by Dr. Samuel Johnson who borrowed it from Dryden’s phrase for Donne: “he affects the metaphysics.”. Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. How and why were the confessional poets a reaction to the male dominated beats?. What is so intriguing and interesting to us about social media? Reality TV?. (What is it that draws us in and keeps us wanting more??). to add to the poem’s sound, meaning, and emotional effect on the reader.. Poetry:. Is the art of expressing one’s thoughts in verse. Uses few words to . convey . its message. Is meant to be read aloud. Poetry is a way of borrowing from other styles of writing (Rosen, 1997).. Poetry should be a personal encounter with a poet’s words that touches you in such a way to bring you back again and again for more – you can’t get enough! (, 0000).. What are the Fireside Poets. First group of American poets to rival British poets in popularity in either country.. Notable for their scholarship and the resilience of their lines and themes.. Preferred conventional forms over experimentation..