tradition e.g. heroic couplet. innovation and originality elevated, proper language, folk & fairy tales. romance. “primitive”; literary forms artifice; common language; every day experience; True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not humble, rural; fanciful, picturesque, rugged Chance (Pope) lyric mode: self-expression feelings provide knowledge satiric mode; wink to audience reason poetry defined by Wordsworth literary mode provides knowledge overflow of powerful feeling; it “spontaneous talk about ideas takes its origin from emotion recalled in tranquility” long ago, far away, transcendent, supernatural; reality empirical, physical, mathematical internal aesthetics/ order: measured, compressed, controlled, organic, dynamic, audacious, expansive; nature balanced combine contraries: grotesque, sublime driven by character, emotions, passion, tragic plot driven by ideas, events, reason endings unique, sacred individual; outcasts, rebels, characters universal; everyman; puppets nonconformists. Prometheus, Cain, Satanic mad scientist, Great Outlaw authority, age & experience; youth & innocence; wisdom located in society located in the individual order & authority inherently good; should inherently oppressive to man society protect man alienation intelligence and wit to poet: brings nature’s miracles to our attention, philosophe-putting ideal man service of mankind puts us in touch with joy One Truth: intellectual Many truths of daily experience man in nature brutish innately good; noble savage man should be satisfied within his no limits, dissatisfaction, adventure, leisure: limits limitations; work is noble feeling of incomplete destiny” “painful
literary forms tradition e.g. heroic couplet. elevated, proper language, artifice; True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance (Pope) innovation and originality “primitive”; folk & fairy tales. romance. common language; every day experience; humble, rural; fanciful, picturesque, rugged literary mode satiric mode; wink to audience reason provides knowledge talk about ideas lyric mode: self-expression feelings provide knowledge poetry defined by Wordsworth “spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling; it takes its origin from emotion recalled in tranquility” reality empirical, physical, mathematical long ago, far away, transcendent, supernatural; internal aesthetics/ nature order: measured, compressed, controlled, balanced organic, dynamic, audacious, expansive; combine contraries: grotesque, sublime plot driven by ideas, events, reason driven by character, emotions, passion, tragic endings characters universal; everyman; puppets unique, sacred individual; outcasts, rebels, nonconformists. Prometheus, Cain, Satanic mad scientist, Great Outlaw authority, wisdom age & experience; located in society youth & innocence; located in the individual society order & authority inherently good; should protect man inherently oppressive to man alienation ideal man philosophe-putting intelligence and wit to service of mankind One Truth: intellectual poet: brings nature’s miracles to our attention, puts us in touch with joy Many truths of daily experience man in nature brutish innately good; noble savage limits man should be satisfied within his limitations; work is noble no limits, dissatisfaction, adventure, leisure: “painful feeling of incomplete destiny”
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