ENGL101A Lecture Notes - Percy Bysshe Shelley, To His Coy Mistress, Lyric Poetry
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Simile: comparison; uses like or as metaphor: comparison; stronger than similes. New criticism: intentional fallacy (poet gets the last word as to the meaning) A central device is personification of abstract entities such as virtues, vices, states of mind, modes of life, and types of character. There are two main types of allegory: historical or political, allegory of ideas, in which the literal characters represent concepts and the plot allegorizes an abstract. Hawk roosting ted hughes for killing) celebration of raw power. The animals in that country margaret atwood fox: england. Ritual of hunting a fox with hounds depicted in the poem as a polite ritual bull-fighting: spain/portugal wolves: possibly rome cats: egypt. Animals were thought to be obstacles to safety when people first settled. Ode to a nightingale john keats solution to human pain is to metaphorically join the world of the nightingale.