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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 pa...

 Poe and Poetry 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      /   Some syllables are stressed / , and others are unstressed u. You have to pronounce stressed syllables louder, and this gives an English poem its musicality, along with alliterations. C. Baudelaire was an admirer of E.A. Poe, and even translated him into French. They both belong to Romanticism, an artistic movement that started in the late 18th century in Great Britain and Germany. Poe's USA were very different from today's USA. In the 1840s, t...

  Test prep Friday'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. - These two documents are not very interesting. - > Are these two documents really not very interesting ? - The ark could be like Noah's ark, not everyone could go away from earth. - > Is the ark like Noah's Ark ? Could everyone go away from earth ? / Is the Ark connected with a more ancient tradition / history / myth ? Are the documents optimistic about the future of humanity ?  Try and create a question that connects "It's just a silly dream" and Karen Thole illustration : 1   1. Both characters sleep. Is sleep important in these documents? 2.  The two visions are unreal. What makes the visions unreal? 3....