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__Background Information: __ Kalidasa:

Kalidasa is said to be one the greatest poets of the Sanskrit language. His works are based on the Hindu culture and philosophies. His plays have been performed throughout the centuries and even became movies, some of which were based on his life. Kalidasa’s works and life inspired generations of poets due to his exquisite use of similes and imagery. He depicted the beauty of nature and love in most of his most famous works. He rewrote old stories and tales, each with its own moral and way to connect to his current generation. The plays and poems help to describe the time period in which he lived, all though it is still difficult to pin point the exact dates. In Indian culture, he has become the archetype for the composition of their literature. His work titled ”Abhijnanasakuntalam" greatly influenced Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 

Poems: Waking vs. These Four Walls Autumn vs. Mama's Broken Heart Look To This Day vs. Innocent

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on August 28, 1749 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is said to be the literary figurehead for the entire Romantic Movement. He has embodied the culture from the present day all the way back to the Enlightenment. His works have inspired composers, who set his work to music, and philosophers who used his ideas and expanded on them. His very first play was called “Die Mitschuldigen”, and was supposedly written about a woman whom he had fallen in love with. She had left him and gone to marry a lawyer for more financial stability, leading the play to be about a girl’s regrets after realizing she married the wrong man. He was strongly influenced by her, as well as the study of alchemy, which led to his most famous play about the fictional character of “Faust”. The plot of “Faust”, the idea of selling a persons soul to the devil to gain power, became a literary duplicate. Some say that his book titled “The Sorrows of Young Werther” helped to start the Romanticism movement. This book was set apart from others because of its different writing topics, some of which became very controversial.



Poems: Lover In All Shapes vs. Breathe (2 am) The Bliss of Absence vs. Downtown The Visit vs. 1985

Oscar Wilde:

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Oscar Wilde was born in Ireland in 1854. Became known as a Classical scholar in college and followed the teachings and ideas of Walter Pater, by whom he was greatly influenced. Wilde lived up to his name, becoming one of England’s most prominent personalities. He is said to be highly flamboyant and witty. He wrote to be famous and to continue the ideas of Aestheticism, a movement that was very popular in London at the time. He lectured in America and Canada in order to gain more fame and tried to introduce the love of beauty to this side of the world. He was met with “widespread hostility”. Wilde became editor of the magazine “The Woman’s World” in 1887 and wrote about current fashion and other society trends, however he was later fired for not showing up to meetings or, sometimes, at all. He is best known for his novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, about a man who realizes that he will age and to prevent it he sells his soul and a painting of him ages instead, a theme based on Johann Goethe’s own “Faust”.



<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Poems: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Flower of Love vs. Young and Beautiful <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Her Voice vs. Vanilla Twilight <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Roses and Rue vs. If You're Gone

__<span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 190%;">Literary Elements Definitions: __
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Second Person: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur
 * <span style="color: #ff0900; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Imagery: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> descriptive language that evokes sensory experience


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Simile: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> makes a comparison between two otherwise unalike objects or ideas by connecting them with the words "like" or "as"


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Personification: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> a figure of speech where animals, ideas or inorganic objects are given human characteristics


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Metaphor: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> a statement that is made that says that one thing is something else but, literally, it is not


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Allusion: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Repetition: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Rhyming: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> repetition of an identical or similarly accented sound or sounds in a work

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Colleen's Works Cited
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hyperbole: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> an extravagant exaggeration