LITERARY PERIODS DESCRIPTION OF NOTABLE ASSIGNED ANALYSIS & RELEVANCE OF

PERIODS AUTHORS/WORKS READINGS REFLECTION THE READINGS

Classical Period (1200 A Golden Age for • The Iliad and • Students I must admit how -For me the
BCE-455 CE) Literature and Arts Odyssey by who are amazed I was relevance of the
Homer currently learning about readings in this
• Aeneid by taken all classical music and period to my
Virgil about the how often it is used course its tackles
• Works and history of in movies and the musical
Days by literary cartoons still instruments and
Hesiod periods. watched today. other musical
• Theogony by • Historians Taking this class machines. Becau
Hesiod has made me a I currently taking
better listener and Mechanical
taught me about the Engineering.
development of
music. Although
there are many
composers that
have influenced
music, my
assignment is to tell
you about my
favorite and why I
believe he is the
most influential. I
will also tell you
about my favorite
musical time period
and how this class
has changed the
way I listen to
music.

Medieval Period (455 In the history of Europe, • The Beowulf • Students The Medieval Medieval Period
CE – 1485 CE) the Middle Ages by Unknown who are Europe unit has not connected to
or Medieval Period lasted • The currently been an my Course
from the 5th to the late Canterbury by taken all because It tackle
enlightening
15th century.... Geoffrey about the about superstitiou
experience in
Population decline, Chaucer beliefs and other
history of relation to the
counter-urbanization, • Sir Gawain literary
magic something
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authority, invasions, and periods. perception towards it is irrelevant to m
Green
mass migrations of Knights by • Historians the medieval era. At course.
tribes, which had begun Unknown the beginning of the
in Late Antiquity, • The Divine unit, I feel that I had
continued in the Comedy by a very basic view of
Early Middle Ages Dante the Middle Ages,
Alighieri
that it was an era of
plateauing
intelligence in the
lead up to the
 Renaissance, full of
superstition and in
some cases, witch
burning. However,
after studying for a
semester, I have
come to conclude
that the Middle Ages
does not conform to
its long-held
stereotypes, but
instead, is a web of
complexities of
social contracts and
general daily life. My
views in relation to
the Medieval Age
have been
considerably
changed over the
course of the
semester due to the
learning material. I
enjoyed a lot of the
research aspects of
this unit as well as
the passionate
lectures that were
given. I feel like I
could possibly
improve in my study
ethics, in this
subject but also
across the board as
I think I could
improve.
Renaissance Period It is considered to be the Literary Works: • Students During the Middle Renaissance
(1485 CE – 1660 CE) Division between the • Romeo and who are Ages, people Period is not
Middle Age and Modern Juliet currently thought life sucked connected to my
Era. • When I was a taken all and then you die. Course because
Fair and about the Life on Earth was tackles about
Young essential hell and all superstitious
history of
• Utopia literary
they had to look beliefs and other
Authors: forward to magic something
periods.
• William was the possibility That I can see th
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Shakespeare
• Sir Thomas thereafter. During course.
More the
• Queen Renaissance,
Elizabeth I people came to
realize that life is
 what you make
it…and
that with the right
attitude and
education one could
live a full,
rewarding and
enjoyable life in the
here and now. So,
focus on the
present and just do
it.
Enlightenment Period -The Age of Reason Literary Works: • Students During the Enlightenment
(1660 -1790) -The Era of Logic • All for Love who are Enlightenment Period is not
• The Rake of currently period some of the connected to my
the Lock taken all most intelligent Course because
• Rights of Man about the minds came out to tackles about
Authors: prove a point. In the superstitious
history of
• John Dryden literary
beginning society beliefs and other
• Alexander took it as if these magic something
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Pope
• Historians were wrong it is irrelevant to m
• Thomas
Paine because they did course.
not want to face the
facts. No one likes
to be told that we
need to think more
because it makes us
feel like we are not
thinking enough. No
one likes to be told
how to raise their
child because it
makes us feel as we
are not parenting
right. During the
enlightenment
period, people that
came out to say
something could
even be put to
death. As more
people like Locke
came out, society
began to
question/reason.
Some of this
“Enlightenment
Fathers” even wrote
books that in now
days are still read
and used. I will
never forget about
the “Enlightenment
Fathers” and their
contribution to
 society.
(Significance) The
Enlightenment
period was a very
important
mantic Period (1790 – -Great Age for the Novel Literary Works: • Students Romantics believed Romantic Period
1830) -Emphasizes on • I Wondered who are that through not connected to
Emotion, Imagination as a Lonely currently reflection, one could my Course
and Individualism Clouds taken all find the key to because It tackle
• Kublai Khan about the identity and about superstitiou
• Song of history of
potential. They were beliefs and other
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and of humans, as a That I can see th
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Experience
• Historians
• Mathilda inherently good. course.
Authors: Romantics value
• William creativity and
Wordsworth imagination over
• Samuel logic and reason.
Taylor This creativity often
Coleridge enabled Romantics
• William Blake to be more abstract
and poetic in their
• Mary Shelley
language. One
famous writer of the
Romantic period
was Edgar Allan
Poe. He displays
some of his
conclusions in his
short story, “The
Fall of the House of
Usher”. Poe
demonstrates his
beliefs in the idea of
embracing the
duality of the human
body and spirit. He
goes so far as to
say that the body
and the mind must
both be taken care
of or else death and
decay are
inevitable. Another
Romantic writer,
Herman Melville,
wrote about man’s
inherent relationship
with nature in his
1851 epic, Moby
Dick. Melville
demonstrates the
ways that man may
try to conquer
nature through the
metaphor of the
great white whale.
Ultimately, man
loses against the
everlasting beast
that is nature.
Melville was
alarmed by the
disregard that
Americans showed
as they attempted to
subdue nature
through expansion
and sought to
awaken Americans
through his
literature.

Romantics valued
nature, but
Transcendentalists
valued it even more.
Transcendentalists
believed in the
power of the
individual as
opposed to the
power of society
and believed that
nature was a gate to
understanding
oneself.
Transcendentalists
such as Thoreau
and Emerson
sought the true
meaning of life
through the
simplicity one could
find in a life “lived
deliberately” in
nature.
Transcendentalists
used nature as a
reflection pool to
see themselves.
Another cornerstone
of this movement
was the idea that
man, nature, and
God were all
connected in one
being known as the
Over-Soul.
Transcendentalists
concluded that the
 only real way to live
a full life of
understanding of
one’s mind and
spirit was through
the absolute
embrace of the
natural world.

America was
progressing very
rapidly, perhaps
more so than it
could handle. Its
expansion led many
to questions of
ethics which
ultimately resulted in
great literary
movements.
Romanticism and
Transcendentalism
were a response of
rejection towards
society’s
expectation and an
attempt to gently
wake the sleeping
nation.
Victorian Period (1832- -The Reign of Queen Literary Works: • Students The Victorian era Romantic Period
1901) Victoria • The Pickwick who are was the period of not connected to
In this era, it expressed Papers currently good peace, wide my Course
the fusion of pure • How do I taken all extremes, prosperity because It tackle
romance to gross Love Thee? about the and elegance, while about superstitiou
realism. • Ulysses history of
in the Monarchy of beliefs and other
Authors: Queen Victoria’s magic something
literary
• Charles periods.
reign. This period That I can see th
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• Historians ended in 1907 with course.
• Elizabeth
Browning the death of Queen
• Alfred Lord Victoria.
Tennison Furthermore, the
name Victorian,
describes all the
events during
Queen Victoria's
power, thus this
conveyed
implications of
prudence,
repression, and old
fashion manner.
Although, after her
reign started, the
Romantic period
came to an end. In
 fact, it was also the
time of inventions.

Modern Period (1914- -Characterized by a Self- Literary Work: • Students -In this Era a lot of -This is relevant t
1945) conscious break with • The Road Not who are things changes and my course becau
traditional ways of Taken currently evolved to modern. of the involvemen
writing, in both poetry • And Death taken all of new machines
and prose fiction. Shall Have about the and discoveries o
No Dominion how does it work
history of
• Insensibility literary
and there benefit
Authors: to it.
periods.
• Robert Frost
• Historians
• Dylan
Thomas
• Wilfred Owen
Postmodern Period -Characterized by Literary Work: • Students -This era a lot of -This is relevant t
(1945- Onward) reliance on narrative • Infinite Jest who are things happened. my course becau
techniques such as • The Love currently The changes from of the involvemen
fragmentation, paradox, Song of J. taken all modern to of new machines
and the unreliable Alfred about the Postmodern has a and discoveries o
narrator. Prufrock lot of changes how does it work
history of
• Waiting for literary
especially in and there benefit
Godot technologies that is to it.
periods. more advance than
Authors:
• Historians
• David Foster the modern.
Wallace
• T.S Eliot
• Samuel
Beckett