LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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Wordsworth
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coleridge
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Lord Byron
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Features of Coleridge’s Poetry Realism: He exercises an imaginative realism. Medievalism present: Medievalism is present everywhere in Coleridge’s poetry. The whole of Rime of Ancient Mariner is wrought with the color and glamour of Middle Ages.
Detailed explanation-2: -stoppeth, thy, stopp’st, thou, may’st, quoth, hath, spake, aye, Ken, hollo, thee, twas, All these are the archaic words used in the poem.
Detailed explanation-3: -Archaic diction used in a modern work has the effect of making the text sound older than it is. It can also make it sound more poetic, as a lot of well-known poetry from previous centuries used archaic diction due to the time in which they were written.
Detailed explanation-4: -Examples of Archaic Literature and Authors Such as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth.