Final Brit Lit exam
WWI
1914-1918
Red Decade
1930s Fascist government
Spanish Civil War
1936-1939 military revolt against Republican government, received aid from Italy and Nazi
WWII
1938-1945
The Troubles
1969-1970 Catholica and Protestants in Ireland should be a apart pf Britain
Windrush Scandel
2013 British government deported Jamacians
Daljit Nagra
A Black History
Ezra Pound
A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste, In a Station of the Metro
35) Air from another life and time and place, Pale blue heavenly air is supporting A white wing beating high against the breeze,
A Kite for Aibhin
26) Of the many definitions of poetry, the simplest is still the best: 'memorable speech.' That is to say, it must move our emotions, or excite our intellect, for only that which is moving or exciting is memorable, and the stimulus is the audible spoken word and cadence, to which in all its power of suggestion and incantation we must surrender, as we do when talking to an intimate friend....No poetry, on the other hand, which when mastered is not better heard than read is good poetry.
Auden Poetry as a memorable speech
27) Only when it throws light on our own experience, when these lines occur to us as we see, say the unhappy face of a stockbroker in the suburban train, does poetry convince us of its significance. The test of a poetry is the frequency and diversity of the occasions on which we remember his poetry
Auden Poetry as a memorable speech
24) Yesterday all the past. ... ... The trial of heretics among the columns of stone; Yesterday the theological feuds in the taverns And the miraculous cure at the fountain; Yesterday the Sabbath of witches; but to-day the struggle.
Auden Spain
25) The stars are dead. The animals will not look. We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the deffeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.
Auden Spain
T.E. Hulme
Autumn
7) The King is here. His office is in the schoolroom down the street, a little way past the church, just beyond the dung heap. If we wait we may see him. Let's stand with these people in the rain and wait. A band is going to play to the army. Yes, I told you, this is the army—these stolid men standing aimlessly in the drizzle, and these who come stumbling along the slippery ditches, and those leaning in degraded doorways. They fought their way out of Liege and Namur, followed the King here; they are what is left of plucky little Belgium's heroic army.
Belgium Borden
Mary Borden
Belgium, The Song of the Mud
31) By de hundred, by de tousan, From country an from town, By de ship-load, by de plane-load, Jamaica is Englan boun.
Bennett Colonization in Reverse
8) The pale yellow glistening mud that covers the naken hills like satin, The grey gleaming silvery mud that is spread like enamel over the valleys, The frothing, squirting, spurting liquid mud that gurgles along the road-beds, The thick elastic mud that is kneaded and pounded and squeezed under the hoofs of horses, The invincible, inexhaustible mud of the War Zone.
Borden The Song of Mud
28) A king's invocations at the Globe Theatre spin me from my stand to a time when boyish Bravado and cannonade And plunder were enough to woo the regal seat.
Daljit Nagra A Black History
29) Is my voice phoney over these oft-heard beats? Well if my voice feels vexatious, what can I but pray That it reign Bolshie Through puppetry and hypocrisy full of gung-ho fury!
Daljit Nagra A Black History
Seamus Heaney
Digging, Punishment, A kite
Easter Uprising
Dublin 1916 failed & executed won popular support for cause
41) Here. It will blind you with tears Like a lover. It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief.
Duffy Valentine
42) Take it. Its platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring, If you like. Lethal. Its scent will cling to your fingers, Cling to your knife.
Duffy Valetine
40) Next to my own skin, her pearls. My mistress Bids me wear them, warm them, until evening When I'll brush her hair. At six, I place them Round her cool, white throat.
Duffy Warming Her Pearls
Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum Est
10) 1. Direct treatment of the "thing," whether subjective or objective. 2. To use absolutely no word that did not contribute to the presentation. 3. As regarding rhythm: to compose in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
Flint Imagisme
12) In "Prufrock," what is yellow and described as if it were a cat or a dog?
Fog
Christina Rossetti
Goblin Market
1) Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges, Plump unpecked cherries, Melons and raspberries, Bloom-down-cheeked peaches, Sward-headed mulberries...
Goblin Market Christiana Rossetti
2) The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
God's Grandeur Hopkins
Gerald Manley Hopkins
God's Grandeur, Spring, The Windhover
24) What does "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" mean?
Good and fitting to die for your country
32) Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests. I'll dig with it.
Heaney Digging
33) I can see her drowned Body in the bog, The weighing stone, The floating rods and boughs.
Heaney Punishment
34) I almost love you but would have cast, I know, The stones of silence. ...
Heaney Punishment
8) What did Septimus say to himself that caused his wife to become alarmed?
I'm going to kill myself
Flint
Imagisme
Louisa Bennet
Jamaica Language, Colonization in Reverse
39) Parvez kicked him over. Then he dragged the boy up by his shirt and hit him. The boy fell back. Parvez hit him again. The boy's face was bloody. Parvez was panting. He knew that the boy was unreachable, but he struck him nonetheless. The boy neither covered himself nor retaliated; there was no fear in his eyes. He only said, through his split lip: 'So who's the fanatic now?'
Kureishi My Son the Fanatic
30) Listen, na! My Aunty Roachy seh dat it bwile her temper an really bex her fi true anytime she hear anybody a style we Jamaican dialec as "corruption of the English language." For if dat be de case, den dem shoulda call English Language corruption of Norman French an Latin an all dem tarra language what dem seh dat English is derived from.
Louise Bennett Jamaica Language
Virginia Woolf
Modern Fiction, Mrs. Dalloway
6) Which of our works most heavily relies on stream of consciousness?
Mrs Dalloway
17) In "The Prophet's Hair," who is the prophet?
Muhammed
Hanif Kureishi
My Son the Fanatic
9) Who was in the car that stalled in the middle of the street in Mrs. Dalloway?
Nobody knows
Instress
On the other hand, the act of an human being recognizing the inscape of other beings is called by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
H.D.
Oread, Sea Rose
9) Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime... Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
Owen Dulce
12) An "Image" is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time....It is the presentation of such a "complex" instantaneously which gives that sense of sudden liberation; that sense of freedom from time limits and space limits; that sense of sudden growth, which we experience in the presence of the greatest works of art.
Pound A Few Don'ts
11) Don't use such an expression as "dim lands of peace." It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol.
Pound A Few Dont's
13) The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.
Pound In the Station of the Metro
14) Whirl up, sea— Whirl your pointed pines, Splash your great pines On our rocks,
Pound Oread
38) English literature has its Indian branch. By this I mean the literature of the English language. This literature is also Indian literature. There is no incompatibility here. If history creates complexities, let us not try to simplify them.
Salman Rushdie English is an Indian Language
36) 'And end to politeness!' he thundered. 'An end to hypocrisy!'
Salman Rushdie The Prophets Hair
37) They were, all four of them, very properly furious, because the miracle had reduced their earning powers by 75 per cent, at the most conservative estimate; so they were ruined men.
Salman Rushdie The Prophets Hair
W.H. Auden
Spain, Poetry as Memorable Speech
3) What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.—Have, get, before it cloy, Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning, Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy, Most, O maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning.
Spring Hopkins
W.B. Yeats
Stolen Child, A Coat. Easter, Sailing to Byzantium
23) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are
T.S. Eliot Little Gidding
22) In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo.
T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Little Gidding
Salman Rushdie
The Prophet's Hair, English is an Indian Literary Language
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Speckled Band
Rudyard Kipling
The Widow at Windsor, The White Man's Burden
reverse colonization
The idea of native people(s) taking back their own land.
11) Why does he doubt its worth at the end?
The question is worthless at the end of life
4) Which of our writers aspired to describe "an ordinary day in an ordinary life"?
Virginia Woolf
5) Which of our writers wrote criticism claiming that James Joyce focuses on "the spiritual," not "the material"?
Virginia Woolf
20) It is, at any rate, in some such fashion as this that we seek to define the quality which distinguishes the work of several young writers, among whom Mr James Joyce is the most notable, from that of their predecessors. They attempt to come closer to life, and to preserve more sincerely and exactly what interests and moves them, even if to do so they must discard most of the conventions which are commonly observed by the novelist. Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however, disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
Virginia Woolf Modern Fiction
21) Yet rumours were at once in circulation from the middle of Bond Street to Oxford Street on one side, to Atkinson's scent shop on the other, passing invisibly, inaudibly, like a cloud, swift, veil-like upon hills, falling indeed with something of a cloud's sudden sobriety and stillness upon faces which a second before had been utterly disorderly. But now mystery had brushed them with her wing; they had heard the voice of authority; the spirit of religion was abroad with her eyes bandaged tight and her lips gaping wide. But nobody knew whose face had been seen. Was it the Prince of Wales's, the Queen's, the Prime Minister's? Whose face was it? Nobody knew.
Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway
14) In Little Gidding, the poet draws on his experience during which war?
WWII
Carol Ann Duffy
Warming Her Pearls, Valentine, Medusa, Mrs. Lazarus, The Christmas Truce
23) Which of our authors fought on the front lines in WWI?
Wilfred Owen
4) I caught this morning morning's minion, king- dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air...
Windhover Hopkins
5) ...My heart in hiding Stirred for a bird,--the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
Windhover Hopkins
6) No wonder of it: shee plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.
Windhover Hopkins
16) I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat;
Yates A coat
15) Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Yates A stolen Child
17) I write it out in verse— MacDonagh and MacBride And Connolly and Pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.
Yates Easter 1916
18) That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees, --Those dying generations—at their song, ... Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unageing intellect.
Yates Sailing to Byzantium
19) O sages standing in God's holy fire As in the gold mosaic of a wall, Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre, And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Yates Sailing to Byzantium
Modernism
break from traditional, reject from metanarrative
How is the windhover Christ-like?
breaking movement reveals glory
free indirect speech
combines by not using quotations
What is a windhover?
falcon
Imagism
focus on concrete images no abstract
19) What effect does the hair have on Sin?
gets killed
10) Why does the narrator of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" not ask his "overwhelming question" at the beginning?
he's too busy with social engagements
20) What effect does the hair have on Sin's children? On his wife?
healed
Inscape
internal unique characteristics
13) What is one important image in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
measuring his life with coffee spoons
21) In "The Prophet's Hair," what is the most common motivation for the characters?
money, profit
3) Why do we call the 1930s the "red decade"?
red is the color of fascism
Stream of Consciousness
sensory impression or thought line of thought. Virginia Woolf
Metanarrative
stories that create sense of the world. Overarching story
Post-colonialism
term used to describe conditions shared by nations that were once colonies. Who are we?
7) What is Mrs. Dalloway's objective in the section we read?
to buy flowers for party
15) What is one image that gets developed over the course of Little Gidding?
tongues
18) What effect does the hair have on the father?
upsets with the hair