Bonus: 20 points. Name another individual known for his parables. Test tomorrow on the introductory material for Romanticism and the four short stories and the two works from The Lyrical Ballards, Wordsworth's The Tables Turned and Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. See previous blogs this week for further details.
KNOW THIS: definition of a parable
A short story that tells a moral lesson of some kind. It has the following three characteristics:
1. It's a short story
2. It has a moral that is revealed at the end.
3. It uses realistic characters and settings (that is, it's not about tortoise and hares and other talking animals - those are fables).
some words that you should be familiar with from these two short stories:
1.gait-(noun)- walk
* 2.awe- (noun)-an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful. (This is very important in terms of Romanticism)
3. knell- (noun)-the sound made by a bell rung slowly, especially for a death or a funeral.
4. obstinancy- (noun)-unyielding or stubborn adherence to one's purpose, opinion, etc
5. shroud- (noun)-a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial
6. countenance -(noun)- face
7. austere-(noun)-severe or strict, ascetic
8. reveries- (noun) - dreams
On your test tomorrow you will be asked to tell how the following stanza from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is an example of Romantic thought. It will count for 20 points. Be prepared.
O happy living things! no tongue
Their beauty might declare:
A spring of love gushed from my heart,
And I blessed them unaware:
Sure my kind saint took pity on me,
And I blessed them unaware.
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