The Fall of the House of Usher 2

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 painter Caspar David Friedrich, among other paintings. It illustrates the connection between Nature and the feelings of the artist, his inner life (sa vie intérieure). It's a figure of speech called Pathetic Fallacy.

homework : Tue, Nov. 3rd

Find an English Romantic poem (from Shelley, Byron, Keats, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, etc)

Find a Romantic painting (any country will do, pay attention to the dates !)

 Reading work : from p. 90 to 93 ("[...] into the presence of his master.")

 VOCAB TEST = WED. Oct. 4th

Heavy-Duty Vocab 2

Verbs

 

1.    to be teeming with

2.    to prod

3.    to come to terms with

4.    to be tethered to

5.    to come off as

6.    to make headway

7.    to dismiss a fact

8.    to be oblivious to

9.    to crack down on

10.          to entail

11.          to be tinged with

12.          to curb a problem

13.          to trump something

14.          to point out something

15.          to brush up something

16.          to be aimed at +V-ing

17.          to lay the blame on

18.          to vault over

19.          to circumvent someone / something

20.          to dispel something

21.          to dabble in something

22.          to play down something

23.          to side with someone

24.          to be lambasted

25.          to linger on in

26.          to price out people

27.          to overshadow

28.          it can lead to

29.          to embrace something

30.          to gain ground (an idea)

31.          to usher in

32.          to seep into (an idea)

33.          to underpin

34.          to conjure up something

35.          to bemoan

36.          to skyrocket

37.          to call the shots

38.          to be committed to doing something