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1、1.Byronichero:withimmensesuperiorityinhispassionsandpowers,thisByronicherowouldcarryonhisshoulderstheburdenofrightingallthewrongsinacorruptsociety,andwouldrisesingle-handedlyagainstanykindsoftyrannicalruleseitheringovernment,inreligion,orinmoralprincipleswithunconquerablewillsandinexhaustibl
2、eenergies.Theconflictisusuallyoneofrebelliousindividualsagainstoutwornsocialsystemsandconventions.E.g.GeorgeByron“DonJuan”2.Conceit:In literature,a conceit isan extendedmetaphor withacomplex logic thatgovernsapoeticpassageorentire poem.In Englishliterature thetermisgenerallyassociatedwiththe
3、17thcentury metaphysicalpoets,anextensionofcontemporaryusage.Inthe metaphysical conceit,metaphorshaveamuchmorepurely conceptual,andthustenuous,relationshipbetweenthethingsbeingcompared.E.g.JohnDonne“TheFlea”3.Englishrenaissance:The EnglishRenaissance wasa cultural and artisticmovement inEngl
4、anddatingfromthelate15thtotheearly17thcentury.ThebeginningoftheEnglishRenaissanceisoftentaken,asaconvenience,tobe1485.Renaissancestyleandideas,however,wereslowtopenetrateEngland,andthe Elizabethanera inthesecondhalfofthe16thcenturyisusuallyregardedastheheightoftheEnglishRenaissance.E.g.Thoma
5、sMore“Utopia”WilliamShakespeare“Hamlet”4.RomanticisminEnglishpoetry:attheturnofthe18thand19thcenturiesromanticismappearedinEnglandasanewtrendinliterature.ItroseandgrewundertheimpetusoftheIndustrialRevolutionandFrenchRevolution.In1798ColeridgeandWilliamWordsworthjointlypublishedthe“LyricalBal
6、lads”,whichmarkedthebeginningofromanticisminEngland.(Romanticismwasanartistic,literary,andintellectualmovementthatoriginatedinEuropetowardtheendofthe18thcenturyandinmostareaswasatitspeakintheapproximateperiodfrom1800to1850.)E.g.WilliamBlake“TheLamb”RobertBurns“ARed,RedRose”5.Dramaticmonologu
7、e:inliterature,itreferstotheoccurrenceofasinglespeakersayingsomethingtoasilentaudience.RobertBrowning’s“MyLastDuchess”isatypicalexampleinwhichtheduke,speakingtoanon-respondingaudiencerevealsthereasonsforhisdisapprovalofthebehaviorofhisformerduchess
