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Review 1. Who is sometimes regarded as “the American Wordsworth?” 2. What are the four subjects that he always touches upon? 3. Name some of his important works. 4. What is alliteration? 5. What is consonance? 6. What is assonance? 7. What is a foot in poetic analysis? 8. What is a meter? 9. Please scan the following lines: A gentle knight was pricking on the plain. I still my old opinion keep. In sooth, I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me; you say it wearies you. (The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare )(?n sóoth,/? knów/n?t why/? ám/s? sád.?t wéa/ri?s mé;/y?u sáy/?t wéa/ri?s yóu....) Edgar Allan Poe Listen to “Annabel Lee” 28annabel lee.wma Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) 1. Life precarious, impoverished 2. Reputations not recognized in his own day—The French used Poe as the model for their symbolist school—European writers—20th century, popular with Freudian psychological critics. 3. Literary theories poetry: The most important purpose of poetry is the creation of beauty which is the sole legitimate province of a poem. The tone of its highest manifestation is one of sadness./Music is essential to create a mood appropriate to the theme.(alliteration, assonance, and repetition) fiction: a. preferred the tale to other fictional forms/ stressed the principle of concentration and thematic totality. b. Writer should decide the effect first, and then invent events. c. Truth is the aim of the tale. d. Works should be judged by their psychological effect upon the reader. Transcendentalism I. Growth and Development II. Major concepts III. Significance IV. Weaknesses I. Growth and development In essence, romantic idealism on Puritan soil 3 sources: Unitarianism/Idealistic philosophy from France and Germany/Oriental mysticism as revealed in Hindu and Chinese classics II. Major concepts 1. Power of intuition 2. Spirit first, matter second 3. Nature as symbolic of spirit or God 4. Individual as the most important element in society/ self-