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LLS_3_ILE_2 ISTORIA LITERATURII ENGLEZE AN III SEM.

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The novel is a genre 1 2 3 4 classical simple complex Romantic

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The concept of genre implies a certain set of 1 2 3 4 characters metaphors actions expectations

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In the modern world in the urban middle class society the protagonist of modern fiction is 1 2 3 4 A leader God A demi-god The ordinary type not superior to ourselves

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According to Robert Scholes the novel Joseph Andrews can be characterized as 1 2 3 4 satire + picaresque picaresque + comic history + sentiment comic + history

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The prevailing patterns of British fiction are 1 2 3 4 Empiricism + Puritanism Puritanism + Idealism Idealism + Sentimentalism Sentimentalist + Romanticism

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According to Ronald S. Crane the plot is a temporal synthesis among 1 2 3 4 Action, character and thought Action, character and space Character, space and time Space, time and point of view

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The part of the narrative that corresponds to no progress in narrated time is 1 2 3 4 Narrative speed Ellipsis Digression Summary

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Unlike the eighteen century novel the twentieth century novel constructs characters 1 2 3 4 that represent a solid entity reduced to no name that have a tragic status that represent the universal human types

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The narrator in Moll Flanders is 1 2 3 4 the author himself a witness I the protagonist I the omniscient narrator

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Showing means 1 2 3 4 a dramatic narration of events a stream of consciousness technique paraphrase and summary first person narration

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The ideal pursued by Defoes characters is 1 2 3 4 virtuous life fame helping other people economic success

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Defoes novels might be called stories of successful 1 2 3 4 shipwreck career crime conversion

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Defoes characters obtain their success at the price of a reformed life, accompanied by 1 2 3 4 repentance remorse suicide betrayal

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Defoes characters are basically 1 2 3 4 sentimentalist rationalistic losers hopeless

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Defoes technique has been called by critics 1 2 3 4 Picaresque style Romantic epic Circumstantial realism Bildungsroman

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Defoes characters represent a human type that can be best described as 1 2 3 4 homo ludens homo sapiens homo eroticus homo economicus

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Henry Fieldings vision as a novelist is essentially 1 2 3 4 tragic moralistic sentimental comic

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As a neo-classicist, Fielding believed that 1 2 3 4 man is good at heart man lacks reason man is no better than wolves (homo homini lupus) man is an instinctual being

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Fieldings characters are 1 2 3 4 all negative characters all ideally good ones fall into two groups the good ones and the bad ones are, like Shakespeares characters, complex (both good and bad at the same time)

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Fielding is the first narrator concerned with 1 2 3 4 the content of his novels the architecture of his novels the characters of his novels the commercial success of his novels

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Fieldings prefatory chapters discuss 1 2 3 4 the ethics of his characters the previous chapters the chapters to follow various theoretical problems

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Fielding considers reading a synthesis between 1 2 3 4 entertainment and leisure entertainment and instruction entertainment and delight delight and morals

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Joseph Andrews was conceived as a parody of 1 2 3 4 Don Quixote Moll Flanders Pamela Clarissa

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Jane Austen started her literary career by parodying 1 2 3 4 Richardsons novels The Gothic romance Fieldings novels The chivalrous romances

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Laurence Sterne shares comic vision 1 2 3 4 Fieldings Defoes Richardsons Jane Austens

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Sternes Renaissance models include 1 2 3 4 Montaigne, Voltaire and Cervantes Voltaire, Rabelais and Cervantes Cervantes, Montesquieu and Voltaire Rabelais, Montainge and Cervantes

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Sterne was influenced by theory of the mental processes (man is born with a mind as blank as a tabula rasa) 1 2 3 4 Thomas Hobbes Francis Bacons John Lockes Aristotles

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Tristram Shandy opens with 1 2 3 4 the birth of the protagonist the baptizing of the protagonist the first memories of the protagonist as a little child the moment of the protagonist procreation

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Tristram Shandy is basically 1 2 3 4 a picaresque novel an anti-novel a traditional novel a love story

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In Tristram Shandy the unity of tone is provided by 1 2 3 4 many false beginnings digressions blanks and asterisks the voice of the narrator

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Sterne is a author 1 2 3 4 moral immoral amoral cynical

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Sternes characters stand for 1 2 3 4 types predictable entities human complexity caricatures

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Tristram Shandy ends 1 2 3 4 with the marriage of the main hero with the death of the main hero with the birth of the main hero in the middle of a sentence

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Tristram Shandy is both 1 2 3 4 comic and tragic progressive and digressive traditional and experimental neo-classic and romantic

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Sterne often resorts to the use of 1 2 3 4 digression within digression play within a play dialog several narrative voices

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The plot of Tristram Shandy can be reduced to a story about Tristram himself and a story about 1 2 3 4 Tristrams father Tristrams mother Yorick Uncle Toby

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A contemporary of the English Romantic poets, Jane Austen was 1 2 3 4 a Romantic herself not a Romantic herself an anti-Romantic a modernist herself

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Jane Austen 1 2 3 4 identifies herself with her heroines does not identify herself with her heroines accounts for the deeds of her heroines enters under the skin of her heroines

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Jane Austens omniscient narrator anticipates the objective detachment of 1 2 3 4 Daniel Defoe and Henry Fielding Gustave Flaubert and Charlotte Bronte Henry James and Gustave Flaubert Charlotte Bronte and Henry James

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Jane Austen avoids in her novels 1 2 3 4 redundancy dialogue picaresque string of events dramatic tension

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Jane Austens language is 1 2 3 4 unique, original, shocking pure, made up of accepted and acceptable words monotonous, lacking colour religious and moralistic

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Moll Flanders is known as a woman who was 1 2 3 4 five years a whore, six times a wife twelve years a whore, five times a wife eight years a thief, six times a wife eight years a whore, twelve years a thief

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Molls greatest asset to help her rise above her meager beginnings is her 1 2 3 4 virtue intelligence beauty modesty

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Molls first husband is 1 2 3 4 the elder brother of the family with which she spends her teenage years the younger brother of the same family her own brother a draper

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Molls first husband dies 1 2 3 4 one child and three years later one child and five years later two children and three years later two children and five years later

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Molls second husband 1 2 3 4 goes bankrupt turns out to be her own brother leaves her for another woman dies of a heart attack

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Moll meets her fourth husband in ... 1 2 3 4 London Virginia Bath Lancashire

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Molls last husband is 1 2 3 4 Jemmy a gentleman of Lancashire Robin, a plantation owner A banker of London A linen draper

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Moll and Jemmys child 1 2 3 4 is taken to Virginia dies in infancy is placed in foster care imprisoned in Newgate

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Parson Abraham Adams is a character 1 2 3 4 pathetic eccentric romantic heroic

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Sexual harassment in Joseph Andrews is provoked by the behaviour of 1 2 3 4 Joseph Andrews and Fanny Adams Lady Booby and Pamela Andrews Pamela Andrews and Mrs. Slipslop Mrs Slipslop and Lady Booby

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Fieldings picaresque world shows the readers 1 2 3 4 the closed space of a rural community the aristocratic world of London the English prisons the English roads and inns

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In Tom Jones, Fielding compares the author of a novel with 1 2 3 4 An innkeeper God A king A scientist

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Fielding opposes the life of rural England to the life of Londoners which is characterized by 1 2 3 4 hypocrisy morality wickedness kindness

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In the introduction to Book 2 of Tom Jones, Fielding discusses about 1 2 3 4 the rhythm of the literary work the importance of titles love methods of introducing a character

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The introductory chapter to Book 9 of Tom Jones is about 1 2 3 4 the world as theatre Aristotles Poetics Imitation and plagiarism Literary criticism

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In the introductory chapter to Book 11 of Tom Jones, Fielding shows that criticism means 1 2 3 4 judgement criticizing blaming detracting

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The introductory chapter to Book 15 of Tom Jones is about 1 2 3 4 drama and the novel love and hatred genius and lack of talent vice and virtue

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The introductory chapter to Book 16 of Tom Jones is about the of contemporary plays 1 2 3 4 prologues plots monologues epilogues

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Nature plays role in Pride and Prejudice 1 2 3 4 an essential a minor a major no

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Traditionally, literary histories use to define Romanticism as the historical period 1 2 3 4 from 1750 to 1800 from 1790 to 1810 from 1790 to 1830 from 1800 to 1850

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More recently, Romanticism has been redefined as a trans-historical forma mentis, which is 1 2 3 4 a perennial mode a romantic poetics a historical entity merely a word

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English Romanticism often mix antithetical ideas, visible in the fact that 1 2 3 4 Shelley attacks Wordsworth and Coleridge Pope attacks Byron Keats attacks Coleridge Byron attacks Shelley

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The English Romantics had 1 2 3 4 a coherent Romantic programme no coherent Romantic programme a conscious sense of belonging to a movement a unified ideology

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The Preface to Lyrical Ballads rejected notions like 1 2 3 4 the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings poetic diction subjective feelings emerging from ones experience the humble and rustic life of people

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One of the main features of Romanticism is the preference for instead of imitations. 1 2 3 4 the love of beauty the cultivation of solitude cosmic visions originality

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The Romantics . stands proof for their interest in self-analysis. 1 2 3 4 diversitarianism striving for the infinit confessionalism deep feeling of Nature

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Critics consider Wordsworth a 1 2 3 4 Christian Deist Rationalist Pantheist

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For Wordsworth, poetry originates from emotion recollected in 1 2 3 4 solitude tranquillity quiet serenity

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Wordsworths Tintern Abbey lists the stages in the development of the mind from 1 2 3 4 childhood to adolescence and to maturity birth to childhood and to adolescence adolescence to maturity and old age maturity to old age and death

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Nature in Tintern Abbey is perceived as a 1 2 3 4 shelter threat presence absence

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One of Wordsworths most famous line is the child is father of the 1 2 3 4 wit soul life man

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The Prelude is a vast poem written in the form of 1 2 3 4 letters diary notes autobiography

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Wordsworth enriched the language of poetry by bringing into use many 1 2 3 4 neologisms humble words words invented by himself words from Latin and Greek

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The distinctive feature of Wordsworths innovation remains 1 2 3 4 simplicity sophistication musicality stream of consciousness

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Coleridges essential contribution to the Romantic movement lay in a return to the magical and 1 2 3 4 tricky mysterious real everyday life

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For Coleridge, the willing suspension of disbelief for the moment constitutes 1 2 3 4 the horizon of expectation the source of imagination poetic faith the essence of poetry

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is written in 1 2 3 4 the style and metre of the old ballads blank verse the form of a sonnet Spenserian stanzas

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The theme of the curse and redemption in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner will be later employed in 1 2 3 4 Richard Wagners The Flying Dutchman Eminescus Dintre sute de catarge Verdis Rigoletto Oscar Wildes The Ballad of Reading Gaol

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Christabel by Coleridge is a Gothic ballad full of the mystery of 1 2 3 4 life love death evil

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The theme of Kubla Khan is the strange power of 1 2 3 4 love faith devotion imagination

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Coleridges Gothic elements strongly influenced the poetry of 1 2 3 4 Lord Byron John Keats Edgar Allan Poe Walt Whitman

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Charles Lamb considered Coleridge a damaged 1 2 3 4 archangel brain steam engine boiler

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Although Byron revolted against the poetical conventions of the 18 th century, he was a great admirer of 1 2 3 4 John Dryden John Milton John Donne Alexander Pope

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The typical Byronic hero is a man of one virtue but a thousand 1 2 3 4 vices crimes sorrows dreams

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Byron was the only English romantic who presented his contemporary world as 1 2 3 4 falling apart heading towards progress reviving the past praising the Orient

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is still considered the greatest English satire in verse. 1 2 3 4 Manfred Don Juan Mazeppa English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

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is still considered the greatest English satire in verse. 1 2 3 4 Manfred Don Juan Mazeppa English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

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Nature in Byrons poems is no longer a distinct topic; it appears closely knitted with 1 2 3 4 love and time time and adventure adventure and love love and confession

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Byron seems to have studied the painful realisation of the deeper 1 2 3 4 fear of death beauty of nature love of God solitude in two

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Byron is not a great Nature poet but a great 1 2 3 4 satirist theorist dramatist rationalist

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Shelley was a 1 2 3 4 Pantheist Deist Christian Atheist

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Unlike Byron, Shelley believed in the idea of 1 2 3 4 love and marriage social progress telepathy metempsychosis

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Shelleys second wife was the daughter of the radical philosopher 1 2 3 4 Charles Lamb Thomas Carlyle Matthew Arnold William Godwin

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Shelleys dramatic poem inspired by Aeschylus is 1 2 3 4 Epipsychidion Prometheus Unbound Alastor Adonais

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Prometheus Unbound is made up of chants in praise of 1 2 3 4 Greek Mythology Love Democracy Life

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Adonais is a memorable elegy written in memory of 1 2 3 4 Thomas Gray William Shakespeare Lord Byron John Keats

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Shelley held comedy in poetry to be 1 2 3 4 a crime a failure a blessing essential

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The idea of perpetual is evident in Shelleys The Cloud 1 2 3 4 stasis revolt metamorphosis transgression

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The Cloud as a symbol stands for Shelleys conception about 1 2 3 4 mans life social progress democracy cosmic immortality

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John Keats claimed: imagination is my monastery and I am its 1 2 3 4 priest monk abbot prior

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For John Keats, Beauty is necessarily Truth and Truth is 1 2 3 4 Beauty Love divine what matters in life

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The hero in Endymion embarks upon a journey rendered by the image of 1 2 3 4 forest and path ocean and ship camel and desert net and labyrinth

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Endymion becomes Keats alter-ego in his search for 1 2 3 4 power love beauty happiness

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John Keats Lamia is a(n) transformed into a woman 1 2 3 4 eagle albatross serpent dragon

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In Ode to a Nightingale the bird in the sky is gradually transformed into a symbol of 1 2 3 4 erotic love immortal love imaginative art cosmic principle

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The Eve of St. Agnes is 1 2 3 4 a romance tale-poem an imitation of a popular ballad a classical ode a descriptive poem

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The essence of Romanticism is that it created a symbolical language 1 2 3 4 for asking questions for recording answers to imitate Nature to express Love

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She Walks in Beauty is written in 1 2 3 4 blank verse rhymed couplets crossed rhymes iambic pentameters

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The mistress portrait in the firs stanza of She Walks in Beauty is constructed around the pair of antonyms 1 2 3 4 ugly beautiful guilty innocent lustful shy dark bright

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The mistresss thoughts in the second stanza of She Walks in Beauty are 1 2 3 4 utterly nameless dark and bright outrageously sinful serenely sweet

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The last stanza of She Walks in Beauty describes the mistress as 1 2 3 4 so quiet, yet telling so peaceful, yet disturbed so calm, yet eloquent so tranquil, yet disturbed

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The setting of Stanzas for Music is 1 2 3 4 the ocean at midnight the mountain at noon the garden at dawn the meadow at dusk

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The mistress s voice in Stanzas for Music is compared with 1 2 3 4 music a skylark a nightingale the murmur of the ocean

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The name of the girl recalled in Wordsworths She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways is 1 2 3 4 Dove Maid Violet Lucy

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She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways is written in 1 2 3 4 blank verse rhymed couplets crossed rhymes iambic pentameters

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The dead girl in She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways 1 2 3 4 spent her life anonymously was the most popular girl in her village was transformed into a star was resurrected from her tomb

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Wordsworth compares the dead girl in She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways with 1 2 3 4 the untrodden ways the springs of Dove a Violet by a mossy stone the charmed ocean

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A Slumber did my Spirit Sealed uses slumber as a metaphor for 1 2 3 4 sleep death hope life

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She from the poem A Slumber did my Spirit Sealed, as obvious in the text, is 1 2 3 4 the poets mother the poets sister the poets mistress an unidentified person

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