Introduction
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.
Debut
Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787 when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. That same year he began attending St John`s Colleg
Devoted himself to academic work
As Professor ofAnglo-Saxon at Oxford
Write a great cycle of the myths &legends of Middle-Earth which was to become The Silmarillion.
The term used by author J.R.R. Tolkien to describe the lands of men
The Anglo-Saxon term is middangeard.
The word is also used in the Anglo-Saxon work Beowulf.
The Hobbit was published in 1937
The Lord of
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The meaning of the poem
The speaker sets the scene with Bishop's characteristic attention to minute detail. She has accompanied her Aunt Consuelo to the dentist's office and waits for her through the dark afternoon or evening of Massachusetts in February. While she waits, she reads a copy of National Geographic, observing the pictures of naked women, a dead man “sl
What is Epic?
Epic A long narrative poem in elevated stature presenting characters of high position in adventures forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history ofa nation or race.
9 characteristic of Epic
1. It opens in medias res.
- Iliad (9th c. BCE) and the Odyssey (9th c. BC), by Homer
theme park,
Sociability (with friends)- most people go to cinema, if you didn’t watch the masterchef, but everybody at your work (next day) talk about it, you are not thinking that you are involved in them. Every day in your life is full of the entertainment. You start your day with a workout at the gym, you catch a glimpse of the morning newspaper, we play CDs on the way to work, we listen