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Annabel Lee, Romanticism and Pathetic Fallacy ...About the poem entitled  Annabel Lee . Here are some points we evoked: - it's a  melancholy  poem, yet it's a beautiful proof of love, and Poe writes positive things about his love. There might be a biographical side to it (his wife Virginia died from tuberculosis a few years before).     - It sounds like a song, there's  rhythm to it . - The first stanza is perfect, then the poem becomes dramatic and the stanzas change. So here are a few of the binaries from the poem:   - Sea / Wind / Nature (=emotions of the poet) VS the kingdom (everyday life) - Transcendantal love VS untimely death  - The Ideal (Eidolon, Plato), Fiction VS Reality    For the Romantic poet, there's but two ways to transcend reality and death, and to briefly have access to the ideal world of Ideas : Art, and Religion. We also took a look at a painting called  The Wanderer Above The Sea Of Clouds  by Austrian p...

 Poetry and Poe Poems in French and English are different in a few ways. English poems don't always rhyme. They can, though. But they have a rhythm to them : for the moon never beams without bringing me dreams u     u       /      u   u      /       u     u     /       u     u      / Stanza 1 a description of a woman. It introduces Annabel Lee. Stanza 2 It's about the love between Annabel Lee and the Narrator. Stanza 3 She was taken away from him. Seraphs took her. Stanza 4 Annabel Lee is killed and buried ( enterrée ) Stanza 5 Their love is the strongest ever. Their love can transcend death. Stanza 6 He lies next to her tomb.   Some syllables are stressed / , and others are unstressed u. You have to pronounce stressed sy...

  Test prep Wednesday's test will first be about choosing 3 documents: one literary text (we already know them), one illustration ( ibid ) and one newspaper article (we'll discover 5 of them on Friday). Then, we'll have to connect them, to try and find common points and differences between them. Something that helps : QUESTIONS & OPPOSITIONS.         Try and create a question that connects "It's just a silly dream" and Karen Thole illustration : 1. I have no idea What is interesting about these documents. 2. Jeff's nightmare (telling stories) Is life only a nightmare ? 3.Could this document evoke the lives of migrants / explorers ? 4. Is it possible to know who the statue represents ? 5. To what extent discovering new worlds a topic connecting both documents ? 6. Explorers - > to what extent are these documents about explorers ? 7. How could we explain the strangeness of this document ? 8. There are mountains in both documents, it feels like we...