What are the implications for indulging one’s curiosity?
What are the implications for indulging one’s curiosity?
June 22, 2020 Comments Off on What are the implications for indulging one’s curiosity? Uncategorized Assignment-helpBlake’s Chimney SweepersTo which of the two “Chimney Sweeper” poems do you respond more powerfully? Why, considering how different are the perspectives they express, do you think Blake gave the two poems the same title?2. How do the architectural environments of the Gothic selections, especially in Castle of Otranto, “Sir Bertrand,” Romance of the Forest and Mysteries of Udolpho, convey emotion? In what sense are the buildings characters in the plot? (Consider aspects such as personification. For example, Radcliffe describes Udolpho as a “soverign.”)3. Compare the role of memory in “Tintern Abbey” and “Frost at Midnight.”4. The role of light and darkness is a common motif in Gothic settings. Examine at least three passages in the assigned readings (poems or excerpts of novels) where light flickers or changes, and explore the significance in terms of “illumination.”5. Taking the excerpt from Vathek as an example, discuss the role of curiosity in the Gothic (consider the quiz question asking you to connect Vathek and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” for example). What are the implications for indulging one’s curiosity? How might this serve as a message concerning the act of reading Gothic fiction?6. How is this idea of curiosity refined in “The Eve of St. Agnes” and “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”?7. In “Ode to a Nightingale,” How would you explain the poet’s relationship to the nightingale in the ode? How does it change from beginning to end? 8. Summarize, in one short paragraph, Wordsworth’s arguments in favor of poets’ confining themselves to ordinary language.Here are the links to the sources:https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1934/1934-h/1934-h.htmhttps://www.cardinalhayes.org/ourpages/auto/2014/7/9/61855690/Tintern%20Abbey%20-%20Wordsworth.pdfhttps://www.bartleby.com/101/549.htmlhttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43986/frost-at-midnightAnd one is attached.


