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William Carlos Williams

Imagism

"This Is Just to Say"

The imagist movement included English and American poets in the early twentieth century who wrote free verse and were devoted to “clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images.”

Figurative Language & Poetry

Poetry based on absolutely accurate presentation of its subject with no excess words. The first tenet of the imagist manifesto was “To use the language of common speech, but to employ always the exact word, not the nearly-exact, nor the merely decorative word.”

"The Red Wheelbarrow"

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William Wordsworth

Paraphrase the poem on a separate sheet of paper.

"The World Is Too Much With Us"

Figures of Speech

Definition:

Allusion

  • A reference to another text or some person/entity external to the work

Something used for or regarded as representing something else

The World Is Too Much With Us

The world is too much with us; late and soon,

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!

This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;

The winds that will be howling at all hours,

And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;

For this, for everything, we are out of tune;

It moves us not. Great God! I’d 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;

Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.

A Material object representing something, often immaterial

An emblem, token, or sign

Irony

  • Situational: A meaning or outcome contrary to what is expected
  • Verbal: Occurs when a character says one thing and means another
  • Dramatic: The full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader but unknown to the character

Literary Symbolism Features

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Adds layers or levels of meaning that go beyond the surface or superficial

Typically reappears or is referred to several times throughout the work

Simile

  • A comparison of one thing to something else using the verbal signal "like" or "as"

Open to multiple interpretations (usually)

Metaphor

  • A representation of one thing as if it were something else

Figurative Language: Allegory

Metonymy (Metonym)

  • Using the name of one thing to refer to another thing associated with it (Ex: "red tape")

Figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events

Romanticism (19th century)

Tells a story for the purpose of teaching an idea, moral, or principle

Famous Allegories

Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.

Synecdoche

  • A type of metonym (name substitution) in which the part represents the whole (Ex: "the sail" can refer to the whole ship, or a mascot can represent the entire team/school)

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Oxymoron

  • Combination of contradictory or opposite ideas or qualities (Ex: "wise fool")

Characteristics:

Deepened appreciation of the beauties of nature.

Personification

  • Giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals

A turning in upon the self and a heightened examination of human personality and its moods and mental potentialities

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