| Term | Definition |
|---|
| "On first looking into chapman's homer" | keats, petrarchan sonnet |
| Petrarchan sonnet | a-b-b-a-a-b-b-a-c-d-c-d-c-d |
| Petrarchan sonnet | octave and sestet |
| volta | point of dramatic change; turn |
| volta, Petrarchan sonnets | end of octave |
| volta, Spenserian sonnets | end of octave |
| volta, Shakespearean sonnets | 12th line |
| Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. | "On first looking into chapman's homer" |
| " 'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all." | Tennyson, In Memorium |
| consists of 131 smaller poems of varying length. | Tennyson, In Memorium |
| In Memoriam Stanza | iambic tetrameter quatrains with the rhyme scheme ABBA |
| composed the short poems that comprise "In Memoriam" over the course of seventeen years (1833-1849) | Tennyson, In Memorium |
| loosely organized around three Christmas sections, climax mystical trance dead spirit of Hallam, ends with a an epithalamion | Tennyson, In Memorium |
| epithalamion | wedding poem |
| "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield," | final line of Ulysses, Tennyson |
| the antithesis of the mariners in "The Lotos-Eaters," who proclaim "we will no longer roam" and desire only to relax amidst the Lotos fields | Tennyson, Ulysses |
| "mine own Telemachus" | Tennyson, Ulysses |
| Spenserian stanza | ABABBCBCC |
| Spenserian stanza | final line alexandrine |
| Spenserian stanza | first part of Lotos Eaters, Tennyson |
| She had A heart—how shall I say?—too soon made glad, Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er She looked on, and her looks went everywhere. | My Last Duchess, Browning |
| My Last Duchess | iambic pentameter, Browning |
| "no country for old men" | Sailing to Byzantium, Keats |
| Objective Correlative | (1919) T.S Eliot, in his essay "Hamlet and His Problems" |
| Objective Correlative | the set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which will set off a specific emotion in the reader |
| "Journey of the Magi" | TS Eliot, complaint about a journey that was painful, tedious, and seemingly pointless |
| "this was all folly" | "Journey of the Magi" TS Eliot |
| Four Quartets. TS Eliot | Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding |
| "Journey of the Magi" | account of the journey from the point of view of one of the magi |
| dramatic monologue | robert browning, adapted by ts eliot |
| The Waste Land Section I | "The Burial of the Dead" |
| The Waste Land Section II | "A Game of Chess" |
| The Waste Land Section III | "The Fire Sermon" |
| The Waste Land Section IV | "Death by Water" |
| The Waste Land Section V | "What the Thunder Said" |
| abab bcbc cdcd ee | Spenserian Sonnet, turn 9th line |
| abab cdcd efef gg | English (or Shakespearian) Sonnet, turn 12th line |
| abba abba cde cde | Italian Sonnet, turn 9th line |
| Curtal Sonnet | invented by Gerard Manley Hopkins, |
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