PPT-Songwriters as Poets

ENGL 2030Summer 2013 Lavery Imagine John Lennon Imagine theres no heaven Its easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today Imagine theres no countries. ENGL . 2030—Fall 2013 . | Lavery. Imagine. John . Lennon (1940-1980). Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try. No hell below us. Above us only sky. Imagine all the people. Living for today.... p. 215-6. English III. CHS. C. Edge. I. Characteristics of American Romanticism. Affirmation of feeling and intuition over reason. Faith in imagination, inner experience, and youthful innocence, rather than educated sophistication. 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). 6480/7480. , Studies in Contemporary Literature: . Mad Men . and the Sixties. .  . Dr. David Lavery. Summer 2015.  . Poets of the 1960s. ENGL . 6480/7480. , Studies in Contemporary Literature: . Mad Men . 1800-1860. “I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred.”. --Ralph Waldo Emerson. Purpose of Writing. As a . reaction against rationalism. To explore . imagination. and . emotion. Emphasized. LITERARY THEORY FROM PLATO TO T. S. ELIOT. DR. IDA BAIZURA BAHAR. The Renaissance. . 01 . The Dark/Middle Ages or the Medieval Era. medieval scholar making precise measurements in a 14th-century manuscript illustration. Angelique Copeland . What is a songwriter . A . songwriter. is an individual who writes songs. Although songwriters of the past commonly composed, arranged and played their own songs, more recently the pressure to produce popular hits has tended to distribute responsibility between a number of people. . 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. 4/7/16. Published in 1895. Ownership. What the Volume Means Today Versus What it Meant in 1895. Works Cited. "THE PENNY POETS: A FLATTERING WELCOME." . The Review of reviews. (1895): 562-4. . ProQuest. 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. . 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..