LORENA'S HOMEPAGE

ENGLISH POETRY OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES

FIRST PAPER

SUBJECT: Poesía Inglesa de los siglos XIX y XX.
CODE: 14217
STUDENT'S NAME: Lorena Ramos

ABSTRACT:

During this course we have studied some of the main important authors of the English Poetry of the 19th and 20th Centuries. These poets are from different tendencies such as Romanticism, Victorianism, World War Poets and The Pre-Raphaelites. Finally, I have done a monographic reading module about the Marxist literary approach. The reading modules that I have enjoyed the most are " Act of Union" by Seamus Heaney, because of the cleverly thought metaphors employed by the poet to deal with the political conflict between North Ireland and Great Britain; Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath as her real thoughts and feelings are always a mystery; and I also loved to compare "Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen to " the Dead" by Rupert Brooke as we can observe two opposite points of view about World War I, which together represent the thoughts of the society of that time towards the War.

Reading module 1. "To Winter" by William Blake.

Reading module 2. " To Autumn" by John Keats.

Reading module 3. "England in 1819" vs. "To the men of England" by Percy Shelley.

Reading module 4. " The Hollow Men" by T.S Eliot.

Reading module 5. "The Blessed Damozel" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Reading module 6. " The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Lord Alfred Tennyson.

Reading module 7. " Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen vs. "the Dead" by Rupert Brooke.

Reading module 8. " Act of Union" by Seamus Heaney.

Reading module 9. "Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath.

Reading module 10. " The Marxist approach"

SELF-EVALUATION: Aprobado

Academic year 2005/2006