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Hello everybody. Here is what I would like help with:
1. neo-classism?
2. let's discuss Elegy in a Country...churchyard? cemetry? I don't even remember the title.
um yes. that is all for now.
posted by Anne | 2:06 PM
2 Comments:
Hi everyone,
Thanks for posting study questions on the Blog. I see that someone has challenged you with a question about Mary Shelley and some explorer. You should try to answer it, especially since it's easy--Frankenstein is a framework story (the framework is about an Arctic explorer). . . .
To answer your question--if possible--neo as a prefix means new, hence "new" classicism. This style of art and writing (and music) is a "tip of the hat" to the art and literature of Greece and Rome; however, as a artistic epoch, it occurs much later than the Renaissance. Neoclassic art tended to be dull and rather severe in style. Romanticism evolved as a reaction to neoclassic art. Neoclassicism was an offshoot of the French and American Revolutions. Early America was full of neoclassical architecture, especially in the South.
I think we'll have time to look at "To a Louse," but if the weather doesn't change. . . well, we'll have to see.
A question for you about "Elegy in a Country Churchyard." Do you think that Gray is ever condescending? If so, where.
How would you explain the theme of Elegy?
All the best,
MC
Hi Sarra, et al.
Both of your suggestions would make acceptable theme statements for "Elegy in a Country Churchyard." What would you make of the epitaph at the end of the poem in light of either (or both) of your theme statements?
All the best,
MC
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