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Arthur Miller "The Death of a Salesman" depicted a man whose
failure made him feel like an outcast.
Alexander Pope (1710-1728) "Rape of the Lock", "An Essay on Man",
"The Dunciad"
Classical Period 1200bc - 455ce
Forms: lyric poetry, greek drama (tragedy,
comedy)(chorus, deus ex machina)
Themes: life/death, morality, season changes,
political commentary, satire, Greek mythology,
Greek wars, Greek Gods, Roman life
, Homer (Greek) The Iliad and The Odyssey: epic poems, using
formal verse and celebrating the achievements of
kings and gods.
The Epic of Gilgamesh Epic story of a Sumerian King Gilgamesh
Beowulf An epic tale of an Anglo-Saxon warrior whose
goal is to live immortally through fame and glory.
The epic tells a story of his victorious battle with
Grendel and Grendel's mother that made him
king to his final battle against a powerful dragon
that caused his death and fame
Greek Authors Homer, Sophocles, Aesop
Virgil Latin
"The Aeneid"
Ovid Latin
"Metamorphoses" and "Ares Amatora"
Horace Latin
"Ode"
Middle Ages and Medieval Period c.500ce - c.1485ce (15th century and early)
Themes: honor, duty, and God (mortality and
purpose in religious term) A lot of allegorical
stories and poems.
Geoffery Chaucer 1380 English writer
"Canterbury Tales" written in heroic couplets (pair
of rhyming lines in iambic pentameter)
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Arthur Miller "The Death of a Salesman" depicted a man whose
failure made him feel like an outcast.
Alexander Pope (1710-1728) "Rape of the Lock", "An Essay on Man",
"The Dunciad"
Classical Period 1200bc - 455ce
Forms: lyric poetry, greek drama (tragedy,
comedy)(chorus, deus ex machina)
Themes: life/death, morality, season changes,
political commentary, satire, Greek mythology,
Greek wars, Greek Gods, Roman life
, Homer (Greek) The Iliad and The Odyssey: epic poems, using
formal verse and celebrating the achievements of
kings and gods.
The Epic of Gilgamesh Epic story of a Sumerian King Gilgamesh
Beowulf An epic tale of an Anglo-Saxon warrior whose
goal is to live immortally through fame and glory.
The epic tells a story of his victorious battle with
Grendel and Grendel's mother that made him
king to his final battle against a powerful dragon
that caused his death and fame
Greek Authors Homer, Sophocles, Aesop
Virgil Latin
"The Aeneid"
Ovid Latin
"Metamorphoses" and "Ares Amatora"
Horace Latin
"Ode"
Middle Ages and Medieval Period c.500ce - c.1485ce (15th century and early)
Themes: honor, duty, and God (mortality and
purpose in religious term) A lot of allegorical
stories and poems.
Geoffery Chaucer 1380 English writer
"Canterbury Tales" written in heroic couplets (pair
of rhyming lines in iambic pentameter)
