Know anything about British literature?
 

I'm trying to help my roomie with her English final. It's been a while since I've read any of these authors..

Any help?

16. Identify the theme of Shelley?s ?Mutability.?

17. Explain the irony of Keats?s line: ?When I have fears that I may cease to be / Before my pen has glean?d my teeming brain.?

18, What is the common theme of the following poems by Christina Rossetti?
?After Death?
?Dead Before Death?
?Sleeping at Last?

19. What historical event was the inspiration for Thomas Hardy?s ?The Convergence of the Twain??

20. Eliot?s ?The Hollow Men? parallels which other reading assignment?

21. The poem ?The Shield of Achilles? alludes to what famous battle?

22. The following quote is King Arthur?s answer to concerns about changes voiced by Sir Belvedere in one of the poems on your reading list. Explain the meaning of Arthur?s answer.
? And slowly answered Arthur from the barge:
The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
and God fulfills himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?
I have lived my life and that which I have done
May He within himself make pure! But thou
If thou shouldst never see my face again,
Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams of??

23. Explain how the structural aspect of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner is similar to the structural nature of Frankenstein.

24. Discuss the philosophical values of romantic artists and hahahahahars.

25. Discuss the supernatural nature of Coleridge?s Rime of the Ancient Mariner. (5 sentences)

26. Choose one of the following narratives:
Conrad?s: Heart of Darkness (2304+
Woolf?s: A Room of One?s Own (2414+)
Consider the events, narration, etc. offered in the selection that you choose. Explain what the author?s work says about life, mankind, relationships, love, marriage, prejudice, etc. (paragraph)


Answer any two of the following:

27. Describe Blake?s poetry; what values did his artistry, both written and visual express?
Select one of Blake?s poems from Songs of Experience and one from Songs of Innocence; discuss the parallels that Blake uses to achieve his purpose and express his philosophy.

28. Describe Wordsworth?s poetic style and philosophy.
Explain the meaning of Wordsworth?s line: ?The Child is father of the Man?

29. Describe the Byronic hero. Identify the source of this persona

30. Briefly discuss the typical themes of Keats poetry.

31. Identify the historical and Biblical parallels in Dryden?s Absalom and Achitophel.

32. In Pope?s Essay on Man, choose one of the following for a short discussion (4-5 sentences).
1) Discuss passages in the selection that seem to relate to Milton?s Paradise Lost
2) Explain what the selection is about and what is Pope trying to teach us in the passages found in this selection.
3) Identify passages from this selection that are currently in use in our language or directly represent ideas that are prevalent in our society.

33. State the main theme of Johnson?s Rasselas; explain Johnson?s purpose for this selection and describe how he achieved this purpose (3-5 sentences).

34. Identify and explain what is being mourned in Gray?s ?Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard:?

:1orglaugh Like anyone on GFY is going to know any of that.

I have a litrature website that may have some answers i'll find the url

Hey! GFYers are smart kids! I've been helped with my homework on one or more occasions. :1orglaugh

I'm just curious. Truly just curious (aka: not judging). Is this high school or college level in this country? Just wondering.

16. "Mutability" depicts Shelley?s almost simplistic innocence about the belief in Love and morals to help mankind through some of life?s most difficult changes. Despite his many disappointments, Shelley develops into a caring and sensitive young man. And, although he was known for his kindness and generosity, he was often the subject of denial, betrayal and unfair judgments, all of which led him through a life-long search for happiness and contentment. It is only through Shelley?s ability to accept change (his mutability), through the gift of imagination and poetic creativity, that he is able to maintain his belief (as stated in A Defence of Poetry) that, "Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted"

19. the Titanic wreckage

21. Battle of Troy (see Homer's Illiad)

28. Describe Wordsworth?s poetic style and philosophy.
Explain the meaning of Wordsworth?s line: ?The Child is father of the Man?

Could be:
The influence of childhood memories on adult thinking.

30. Briefly discuss the typical themes of Keats poetry.

Nature is one.

The end of my vast knowledge, it's been to long.

:)

34. Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" was first published in 1751. Gray may, however, have begun writing the poem in 1742, shortly after the death of his close friend Richard West. An elegy is a poem which laments the dead. Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is noteworthy in that it mourns the death not of great or famous people, but of common men.

http://www.enotes.com/elegy-written/

This is college level, a 2000 (sophomore) level class

All we have left is

20. Eliot?s ?The Hollow Men? parallels which other reading assignment?
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26. Choose one of the following narratives:
Conrad?s: Heart of Darkness (2304+
Woolf?s: A Room of One?s Own (2414+)
Consider the events, narration, etc. offered in the selection that you choose. Explain what the author?s work says about life, mankind, relationships, love, marriage, prejudice, etc. (paragraph)
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20. The main parallel between "Heart of Darkness" and "The Hollow Men" consists in the theme, implicit throughout the latter, of debasement through the rejection of good, of despair through consequent guilt. In Part II of the poem the speaker confesses the impossibility of facing "the eyes," even in dreams, in the dream kingdom of his world; and in his imagination he encounters only their symbolic counterparts--sunlight, a tree, voices in the wind. The sunlight, however, shines only on "a broken column" among the broken desert images. His inability to return and brave the eyes resembles Tiresias' state after the scene in the Hyacinth garden. In The Waste Land the lost eyes are those of the protagonist himself; here they are the upbraiding eyes of one incarnating his lost redemption: the speaker takes refuge in apathy; he desires to think of himself only as a scarecrow. He shrinks from everything but concealment among the other hollow men and wears, with them,

Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field.

What he cannot contemplate is the reproach of

... that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom,

when at length he may meet the eyes in the real world of the dead.


http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poe...iot/hollow.htm