Renaissance Poetry: Petrarch, Garcilaso, and San Juan

Renaissance Poetry: Key Figures and Themes

Petrarch

Subjects: Medieval courtly love: the idealized lady, classical indifference.

Resources: Incorporates many references to Latin poets, expressing the sorrows of an impossible, ideal, and distant love.

Expression of Feeling: Petrarch is a poet who manages to convey a wide range of feelings (pain, absence, jealousy, sadness).

Language: Polished, clear, and vivid language.

Poetic Figures:

  • Frequency of antithesis, correlations, and apparent paradoxes.
  • Alliteration
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Stephen Dedalus’s Journey: Religion and Politics in Ireland

Portrait Religion

Religion’s Influence on Stephen Dedalus

Joyce fills his work with what actually happened in Ireland at that moment (1916), so it’s a clear reflection of life in Ireland, not only Stephen’s life and development. Religion is one of the main topics of the work. Religion is what surrounds Stephen at school: he attends Clongowes Wood College, and his childish mind starts seeing his teachers, who are priests, as really intelligent people. Stephen has a Christian view of the world; he believes

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Famous Venezuelan Artists: Michelena, Reveron, Carreño, Parra

Famous Venezuelan Artists

Arturo Michelena (Painter)

Arturo Michelena was born in Valencia, Carabobo State in 1863. A contemporary and friend of Cristobal Rojas, they shared similar educational opportunities, presentation of work, and the same disease that led to their early deaths.

Michelena received more awards than Rojas, both in France and in Caracas, where he lived most of his life. One of his most famous paintings, in honor of General Paez, is known as “Vuelvan Caras.”

Armando Reverón (Painter)

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Medieval Iberian Lyric Poetry: A Cultural Tapestry

Medieval Iberian Lyric Poetry

Cultured Lyric

Catalan Lyric

Lirica Cultured Catalan: ‘Proveza’ arises in the 13th century and travels to Catalonia. This poetry is collected in nearly 100 ‘cancioneros’. Troubadour poetry is lyrical in nature, with works by known authors expressed in a homogeneous language. These compositions were intended for singing and performed by musicians-singers: minstrels. The troubadours created a difficult subject with rigid laws for fine art.

Subgenres:
  • Tired: A composition of
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Patrician-Plebeian Conflict: Origins and Key Events in Rome

The Patrician-Plebeian Conflict: Origins

What is known as the “Patrician-Plebeian Conflict” began around the time of the founding of the Roman Republic (509 BC). This followed the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome after the events involving Lucrecia, Antonino, and Sextus Tarquinius.

Early Conflicts and Key Figures

The events immediately following the expulsion are uncertain. Annals note that Porsena, King of Clusium, besieged Rome. Quintus Mutius Scaevola was taken prisoner and offered his honor

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Ramon Llull and Catalan Chronicles: Literature of the 13th-14th Centuries

The Prose of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Ramon Llull

Objectives

  • Converting the infidels
  • Writing books to spread the Christian faith
  • Building schools to train missionaries

Narrative Work

Blanquerna: This book, a standout among all books, presents actors performing a journey in search of an ideal. The heroes travel the world to achieve a specific objective.

Book Blanquerna

A noteworthy work due to its narrative verisimilitude and detailed environments of medieval society. The characterization

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