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LITS2002 POETRY II TERM PAPER 2004-2005 Answer ONE (1) of the following questions: 1. "Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence" (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell). Comparing poems drawn from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience respectively, discuss Blake’s comment. 2. "All Wordsworth's poetry expresses, in one way or another, the epiphany that 'The power which . . . Nature thus / Thrusts forth upon the senses, is . . . a genuine counterpart / And brother of that glorious faculty / Which higher minds bear with them as their own' (The Prelude VI)." Discuss with reference to "Tintern Abbey," "Intimations of Immortality" and / or those bits of The Prelude with which you are familiar. 3. The symbol, Coleridge argues, is "characterised by the translucence of the eternal through and in the temporal" (The Statesman’s Manual). Discuss the role of symbolism in at least two poems by Coleridge. 4. Contending that a paradigm shift occurred in intellectual history during the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, M. H. Abrams argues that one dominant metaphor, that of the 'metaphor,' gave way to that of the 'lamp' (The Mirror and the Lamp). Discuss what you understand by this claim and whether it sheds any light on the work of two poets, one Neo-classical and one Romantic. 5. Comparing Pope's Essay on Criticism (1711) with Wordsworth's Preface to his Lyrical Ballads (1800) and / or Coleridge's views (in, for example, his Biographia Literaria [1817]), discuss the differences between the Neoclassical and the Romantic views of literature. Illustrate your answer with reference to examples drawn from Neoclassical and Romantic poetry. DEADLINE: 6 pm, Tuesday March 21, 2005 LENGTH: 7 pages maximum (typewritten, double-spaced) Please click here for advice on writing the term paper. |
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