HENRIK IBSEN
It was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theater director, and poet.
He is often referred to as ''the father of realism'' and is one of the founders of Modernism in theater.
He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House became the world's most performed play by the early 20th century.
He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House became the world's most performed play by the early 20th century.
VOCABULARY
Prefixes
post- = after
postwar /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈwɔː(r)/
e.g. Early postwar years were just as difficult as the war years.
Roots
sol = sun
solar /ˈsəʊlə(r)/
e.g. The problem is that solar energy costs too much.
lun = moon
lunatic /ˈluːnətɪk/
e.g. His lunatic behavior is a menace to society.
Suffixes
-wise = in what manner or direction
otherwise /ˈʌðə(r)ˌwaɪz/
e.g. We have a slight problem with the temperature control, but otherwise everything’s fine.
otherwise /ˈʌðə(r)ˌwaɪz/
e.g. We have a slight problem with the temperature control, but otherwise everything’s fine.
I WANDER LONELY AS A CLOUD
It is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth.
The poem was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802, in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a "long belt" of daffodils.
ARS POETICA
It is MacLeish's spin on Horace's treatise (translated as "Art of Poetry"), which was written in the first century A.D. as kind of a how-to guide to writing poetry.
Way before MacLeish and his modernist pals, Horace was writing about the timelessness of poetry and that poems ought to be "brief and lasting."
In other words, poems shouldn't be about big "aha" moments and neat little meanings wrapped delicately in the poet's words. They should just be, rather than mean.
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