Imagery And Figurative Language In A Midsummer's Night

This class was not what I expected. When I registered for this class, I thought that a poetry class would look at aspects of poetry as a form. I figured we would be looking at things like structure, imagery, and figurative language. Though I assumed we would look at individual poets, I thought it would be more to illustrate a type of poem or era. Soon, I learned that this class would be far more extensive. Indeed, we have started from the Odyssey and worked our way into modern poetry, reading the most prominent poets of each movement as we went. I was surprised at the range of this class; not only did we read poetry that is thousands of years old, we also read poetry from unexpected places like China and Russia. As a result, I feel like I have

Before this story I only knew about old fairy-lore from A Midsummer’s Night Dream. While I knew that fairies were often tricksters and that fairyland was more complicated than modern society tends to view it, I did not know at all that fairies were often depicted as servants of the

You, Ace Pilkington, mention this in your lecture “Poetry Lecture Byron,” both of these stories being written in the summer of 1816, from the suggestion of Lord Byron that he and the Shelleys write ghost stories. There is so much irony in the history of Polidori’s The Vampyre. The fact that Polidori wrote The Vampyre influenced by his dislike of Lord Byron, only to inadvertently make his satirical character a byronic hero, and his story only gained fame because it was attached to Byron, is quite funny. I had known a little about this history before, from an episode of Mysteries at the Museum, but I have since researched it