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LITS2002 POETRY II TERM PAPER 2004-2005
(BASED ON MODULE ONE)

Answer ONE (1) of the following questions:

1. Discuss the differences between Neoclassicism and Romanticism by comparing a poem of Pope's with some of Blake's poems.

2. "Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence" (Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell).  Comparing poems drawn from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, respectively, discuss Blake’s comment.

3. Coleridge argued that the symbol is "characterised by the translucence of the eternal through and in the temporal."  Referring to any / all of his theoretical essays, examine the role of symbolism in Coleridge’s poetry.

4. By writing a close textual analysis of Coleridge’s "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," show how this poem is typical (or not) of what M. H. Abrams terms the ‘Greater Romantic Lyric.’

5. "A revolutionary departure from preceding norms." Referring closely to his "Preface," discuss this assessment of those extracts from Wordsworth’s Prelude which you read.

6. Choose one of Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads not studied in class and write a close textual analysis of it.

7. M. H. Abrams contends that a paradigm shift from the 'mirror' to the 'lamp' occurred in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.  Discuss what you understand by this with reference to the views of any critical theorist studied in the first module such as 'Longinus,' Young, Hegel, Coleridge, and Wordsworth.

DEADLINE: 6 pm, Wednesday April 6, 2005

LENGTH: 7 pages maximum (typewritten, double-spaced)

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