ENGL 105W Study Guide - Final Guide: Ridley Scott, Escapism, Unreliable Narrator

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 105W
• Professor: Tiffany Werth

Document Summary

English 105w spring 2012 course review questions. Rule of st. benedict: discuss the significance of the monastery"s isolation in maintaining a spiritual utopia, connect the lack or privacy in the monastery to the monastic ideal of community. Apocalypse means ripping back the veil to reveal the truth. What is the truth it reveals: describe revelations" imagination of world ending cataclysm. In revelations, apocalypse purges and cleanses through destruction of existence. Does its sing-song rhyme scheme make it seem more or less serious: describe how this poem both subverts social order but also subverts itself. Discuss the role of the forbidden and the function. Why or why not: coleridge claims the narcotic opium inspired kubla khan. what would you argue is drug- like about it, discuss the use of modal verbs (could, should would) towards the end of the poem. The lotos-eaters : this poem, like kubla khan, deals with narcotics.