Passage Review

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Passage Review

• Identify Text
• Identify Author
• Write a sentence or two expressing main idea or
  theme
• Write a sentence or two expressing importance to
  a literary or intellectual period or to World
  Literature generally

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• Ah, brother, mans a strangely fashioned creature
  / Who seldom is content to follow Nature, / But
  recklessly pursues his inclination / Beyond the
  narrow bounds of moderation, / And often, by
  transgressing Reasons laws, / Perverts a lofty
  aim or noble cause

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• . . . Thou breath of Autumns being/Thou, from
  whose unseen presence the leaves dead/Are driven,
  like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing . . . Wild
  spirit, which art moving everywhere / Destroyer
  and Preserver hear, O hear!

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• That riddle was not for anyone who came along to
  answer it called for prophetic insight. But
  you didnt come forward, you offered no answer
  told you by the birds or the gods. No, I came,
  know-nothing _________, I stopped the sphinx. I
  answered the riddle with my own intelligence.

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers
  Little we see in nature that is ours / We have
  given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
• Great God! Id rather be a pagan suckled in a
  creed outworn / So might I, standing on this
  pleasant lea, / Have glimpses that would make me
  less forlorn / Have sight of Proteus rising from
  the sea . . .

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• But in my opinion, for what it is worth, the
  final thing to be perceived in the intelligible
  region, and perceived only with difficulty, is
  the form of the good once seen, it is inferred
  to be responsible for whatever is right and
  valuable in anything . . . And anyone who is
  going to act rationally either in public or
  private life must have sight of it.

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Simile of Cave Quotation5 removes from the
Absolute

• Tied Prisoner in a caveshadows of puppets.
• Freed Prisoner in a cave
• Looking at shadows and reflections outside the
  cave
• Looking at the things themselves outside the cave
• Looking at the sun

• Realm of Illusion
• Realm of Belief
• Realm of Reason
• Realm of Intelligence
• Realm of The Form of the Good

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• The first money I laid out was to buy two young
  stone-horses, which I keep in a good stable, and
  next to them the groom is my favorite for I feel
  my spirit revived by the smell he contracts in
  the stable. My horses understand me tolerably
  well I converse with them at least four hours
  every day . . . They live in great amity with me,
  and friendship to each other.

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• But when the melancholy fit shall fall / Sudden
  from heaven like a weeping cloud, / That fosters
  the droop-headed flowers all, / And hides the
  green hill in an April shroud Then glut thy
  sorrow on a morning rose. . . She dwells with
  BeautyBeauty that must die And Joy, whose hand
  is ever at his lips / Bidding Adieu

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• Dull would he be of soul who could pass by / A
  sight so touching in its majesty / This city now
  doth, like a garment, wear / The beauty of the
  morning . . . Never did the sun more beautifully
  steep / In his first splendour, valley, rock, or
  hill.

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• Pent in cruel jail for endless hours, / I never
  called on your immortal powers. / Ive hoarded up
  the aid you promised me / Till greater need
  should justify my plea. / I make it now. Avenge a
  fathers wrong. / Seize on this traitor, and let
  your rage be strong.

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• I wondered thro each chartered street, / Near
  where the chartered Thames does flow, / and mark
  in every face I meet / Marks of weakness, marks
  of woe.
• In every cry of Man / In every Infants cry of
  fear, / In every voice, in every ban, / The
  mind-forged manacles I hear
• How the Chimney-Sweepers cry / Every blackening
  Church appalls . . . .

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• Chorus Wisdom is by far the greatest part of
  joy, and reverence towards the gods must be
  safeguarded. The mighty words of the proud are
  paid in full with mighty blows of fate, and at
  long last those blows will teach us wisdom.

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• Say first, of God above, or man below / What can
  we reason, but from what we know? / Of man, what
  see we but his station here, / From which to
  reason, or to which refer? / Through worlds
  unnumbered though the God be known, / 'Tis ours
  to trace Him only in our own. / He, who through
  vast immensity can pierce, / See worlds on worlds
  compose one universe, / Observe how system into
  system runs, / What other planets circle other
  suns, / What varied being peoples every star, /
  May tell why Heaven has made us as we are.

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• We are aware of evanescent visitations of
  thought and feeling sometimes associated with a
  place or person, sometimes regarding our own mind
  alone, and always arising unforeseen and
  departing unbidden, but elevating and delightful
  beyond all expression . . . It is as it were the
  interpenetration of a diviner nature through our
  own.

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• What law of the mighty gods have I transgressed?
  / Why look to the heavens any more, tormented as
  I am? / Whom to call, what comrades now? Just
  think, / my reverence only brands me for
  irreverence! / Very well if this be the pleasure
  of the Gods . . . But if these men are wrong, let
  them suffer / nothing worse that they mete out to
  me / These masters of injustice.

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• Now, to correct that error, must you embrace/An
  even greater error in its place,/And judge our
  worthy neighbors as a whole/By what youve
  learned of one corrupted soul?/Come, just because
  one rascal made you swallow /A show of zeal which
  turned out to be hollow, / Shall you conclude
  that all men are deceivers,/And that, today,
  there are no true believers? / Let atheists make
  that foolish inference /Learn to distinguish
  virtue from pretense, / Be cautious in bestowing
  admiration,/ And cultivate a sober moderation.

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My
  sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, / Or
  emptied some dull opiate to the drains / One
  minute past, and the Lethe-wards had sunk / Tis
  not through envy of thy happy lot, / But being
  too happy in thy happiness . . .singest of summer
  in full throated ease

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• . Cease, then, nor order imperfection name /Our
  proper bliss depends on what we blame. /Know thy
  own point this kind, this due degree / Of
  blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee. /
  Submit. In this, or any other sphere, /Secure to
  be as blest as thou canst bear / Safe in the
  hand of one disposing Power /,Or in the natal, or
  the mortal hour. /All nature is but art, unknown
  to thee /All chance, direction, which thou canst
  not see /All discord, harmony not understood
  /All partial evil, universal good /And, spite of
  pride in erring reason's spite, /One truth is
  clear, whatever is, is right.

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• These beauteous forms, /Through a long absence,
  have not been to me /As is a landscape to a blind
  man's eye /But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid
  the din / Of towns and cities, I have owed to
  them, /In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,
  /Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart
  /And passing even into my purer mind, / With
  tranquil restoration -feelings too /Of
  unremembered pleasure . . . . ./In which the
  heavy and the weary weight /Of all this
  unintelligible world, /Is lightened

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King /
  Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow /
  Through public scorn, --mud from a muddy spring
  / Rulers who neither feel nor know, but leechlike
  to their fainting country cling. . . . / Are
  Graves from which a glorious Phantom may Burst,
  to illume our tempestuous day.

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended
  inspiration, the mirrors or the gigantic shadows
  which futurity casts upon the present, the words
  which express what they understand not the
  trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what
  they inspire . . . Poets are the unacknowledged
  legislators of the World.

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• Chorus And now is there a man whose story is
  more pitiful? / His life is lived in merciless
  calamity and pain a complete reversal from his
  happy state . . .Time, which sees all things, has
  found you out it sits in judgment on the
  unnatural marriage
• Messenger And when the poor woman was lying on
  the ground . . . He ripped the golden pins with
  which her clothes were fastened . . . And speared
  the pupils of his eyes.

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• My master heard me with great appearances of
  uneasiness in his countenance because doubting
  or not believing are so little known in his
  country. . . . . . And I remember in frequent
  discourses with my master concerning the nature
  of manhood, in other parts of the world, having
  occasion to talk of lying, it was with much
  difficulty that he comprehended what I meant.

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• I want you to picture the enlightenment or the
  ignorance of our human condition somewhat as
  follows. Imagine an underground chamber like a
  cave, with a long entrance open to the daylight
  and as wide as the cave. In this chamber are the
  men who have been prisoners there since they were
  children . . .

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• For Oft, when on the couch I lie / In vacant or
  in pensive mood, / They flash upon that inward
  eye / Which is the bliss of solitude / And then
  my heart with pleasure fills, / And dances with
  the daffodils.

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that
  is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude
  in language embellished with each kind of
  artistic ornament, the several kinds being found
  in separate parts of the play in the form of
  action, not of narrative with incidents arousing
  pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its
  katharsis of such emotions. . . . Every Tragedy,
  therefore, must have six parts, which parts
  determine its qualitynamely, Plot, Characters,
  Diction, Thought, Spectacle, Melody.

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• The Child is the Father of Man / And I could
  wish my days to be / Bound each to each with
  natural piety
• There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
  / The earth, and every common sight, / To me did
  seem / Apparelled in celestial light, / The glory
  and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as
  it hath been of yore -- Turn wheresoever I may,
  / By night or day, / The things which I have seen
  I now can see no more.

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• True ease in writing comes from art, not
  chance, As those move easiest who have learned
  to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives
  offense, The sound must seem an echo to the
  sense Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently
  blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers
  flows / But when loud surges lash the sounding
  shore, / The hoarse, rough verse should like the
  torrent roar / When Ajax strives some rock's
  vast weight to throw, / The line too labors, and
  the words move slow

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• Away! away! For I will fly to thee, / Not
  charioted by Bacchus and his pards, / But on the
  viewless wings of Poesy, / Though the dull brain
  perplexes and retards Already with thee! Tender
  is the night . . .

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• We serve a Prince to whom all sham is hateful / A
  Prince who sees into our inmost hearts. / And
  Cant be fooled by any tricksters arts. / His
  royal soul, / Though generous and human, / Views
  all things discernment and acumen / His
  sovereign reason is not lightly swayed, / And all
  his judgments are discreetly weighed.

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Identify Text, Author, Theme, and Importance to
World Literature

• I drank, to give my burning veins some peace, /
  a poison which Medea brought to Greece. /
  Already, to my heart, the venom gives / An alien
  coldness, so that it scarcely lives / Already,
  to my sight all clouds and fades -- / The sky, my
  spouse, the world my life degrades / Death dims
  my eyes, which soiled what they could see, /
  Restoring to the light its purity.

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Discussion Question

• Compare the Deism to Pantheism, and how these
  concepts reveal themselves in the themes of
  neo-classicism and romanticism.

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Discussion Question

• What is Lyric Poetry? What is a Lyre? Why is
  the image of the Lyre important in Romantic
  poetry?

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Discussion Question

• List 5 crucial differences between neo-classicism
  and Romanticism.