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Unseen Poetry Context and Typicality - Coggle Diagram
Unseen Poetry Context and Typicality
Medieval (500-1500)
Courtly love - Knights in impossible quests to win love
Courtly love offered a way of including romance in people's lives
Courtly romance in real life - pursuit of adulterous and sinful relationship
Elizabethan (1558-1603)
represented new voice, new ideas and discoveries into their work
stability over excitement and taking of risks
symbol: star - stability and permanence of love
Italian forms and genres such as the love sonnet, the pastoral, and the allegorical epic
Victorian (1837-1901)
Sentimentality, especially in representation of women and children
Rossetti challenges Victorian society's outlook on women who step outside predetermined roles
Realism became the dominant mode of English literature in mid 19th century, surpassing though not wholly repressing, Gothic literature of the late 18th and early 19th century but did not fully supersede it.
Metaphysical (17th century)
enjoyed paradox, ingenuity
use of conceits
In Donne's work he at least addressed woman's intellect
Romantic (1770-1890)
Increasingly solitary and often alienated figure
of poem, more sublime settings, and centrality of nature as powerful moral force
Romanticism was a reaction against the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightment
valuing sense, and indulgence in physical passion
and sensation for their own sakes
carpe diem
coleridge first generation and Keats second generation
Restoration (1660-1710)
Satire (irony) as a genre and style of writing
Cromwell's puritan sympathies led to paring down of liturgical services and closure of local churches
21st Postmodernism
Semantic instability or shifting of meaning that shadows and echos its notes of indeterminacy and insecurity
Celebrating fragmentation
penchant for its pastiche, punning, playful language games and parody
Renaissance (14th-17th)
20th Modernism
modernists broke down linguistic and formal features of texts to reflect fragmented, disordered society
Influenced by Freudian ideas of the subconscious, and by the trauma of WW1, modernist writers were less interested in material facts of existence than in exploring the internal reality of the mind
vividly reconfigured both realism and naturalism and added a repertoire of new techniques