English Literature
Part Seven
The Made-up Period
1. The Literary Terms
Romanticism---A movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music and art in Western elegance during most of the late 18th and early 19th century, beginning as a revolt against classicism. There have been many varieties of Romanticism in many different times and places. It made its form in England as a renewed interest in medieval literature. Many of the ideas of English Romanticism were first expresseTed by the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Talor Coleridge.
Canto---A measure out or division of a long poem. The most famous cantos in literature are those make up Dante’s “Divine Comedy”, a 14th-cnetury epic.
Ode---Ode comes from a Greek tete- meaning “song”, and originally an ode was simply a poem meant to be sung to instrumental accompaniment. It is a complex and often loquacious lyric poem, written in a dignified formal style on some lofty or serious subject. So it is dignified and elaborately structured words poem praising and glorifying an individual, commemorating an event, or describing nature intellectually rather than emotionally. The distinguished English odes are Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” and Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”.
Mould/Imagery---Words or phrases that create pictures or images in the reader’s mind. Images are primarily visual and can petition to other senses as well: touch, taste, smell, and hearing.
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