Literature

 

Figurative Language

 A Brief History of Englisch Poetry 

 

• The Middle Ages: Canterbury Tales
•  Dance Music
  
•  Religious Music

• The Renaissance  
•  Shakespeare Sonnet 18
  
• Music
• Greensleaves  
• Romeo and Juliet 
  

 

•  [...]

 

• Romaticism   

• Smetana The Moldau 
• Antonín Dvořák: Music from the New World

 

• William Wordworth DAFFODILS
  

•  Edgar Allan Poe  
• The RAVEN  
• Simpson´s Version

     

 

• Matthew Arnold DOVER BEACH

•  Modernism 

•  Stavinsky: The Rite of Spring
• John Cage 4´33 ´´ 😂🤦‍♂️😜

 

•  T.S. Eliot 
• THE WASTE LAND
• THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK

• Rupert Brooke
• THE SOLDIER 

• Antony Hecht 
• Dover Bitch 
  

Limerik

  The Greatest Short Stories

 

TASK 1:  

Read one short story and give a short summary and interpretation: 

Examples of Descriptive Language

 TASK 2:  Continue this story!

The Fall of the House of Usher Audio Book 

 

DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was --but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. ...
 Source

Sparknote: The Fall of the House of Usher