SHERYL J.

TOMBOC BSED3-ENGLISH

Task 1. LITERARY PERIODS

A. Do a further research on ALL the literary periods enumerated in Reading 1 and

gather data on their respective concepts/key points/viewpoints.

B. Compile all these viewpoints (maximum of 5 sentences for each of them).

I. Classical Period

i. Homeric of Heroic Period

• When we say Homeric of Heroic Period it is known as a stage of a
development of human societies that is a first literary period. It gave rise
to legends about heroic deeds and mythology. There are two writers in
this period namely Homer and Hesiod. Homer was not the first to tell
myths, but was the first to write them down. This is a chaotic period of
warrior-princes, wandering sea-traders, and fierce pirates.
ii. Classical Greek Period
• The Ancient Greece's Classical Period saw the Greeks reach new
heights in sculpture, architecture, theatre, and philosophy. Under
Pericles' leadership, Athens' democracy was fine-tuned. This was a fight
for independence, and the Greeks would triumph until they were free of
Persian control.
iii. Classical Roman Period
• The Romans of Antiquity On the Classical Roman, there is a lot of
background information. Many of their customs and beliefs were passed
down from the ancient Italians. The Romans' culture was influenced by
classical Greece. The Greeks were responsible for many of the things
that the Romans did. They were the type who did not like the idea of new
things coming to place because they thought it may be dangerous. They
wanted to keep the old traditions and values, as they knew that those
things worked, but they were scared to try new things because they
thought it wouldn’t work as good.
iv. Patristic Period
• The Patristic Period is an important period in Christian history since it
contextualizes early Christian knowledge from the time of the last
Apostle's death (roughly 100 A.D.) to the Middle Ages (451 A.D. and the
council of Chalcedon). It discusses the relationship between Judaism
and Christianity, as well as various theological issues. Most
denominations find this period of church history vitally important on a
similar scale.
II. Medieval Period

i. The Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period

• It refers to the language as it was spoken in Britain from the arrival of
Germanic invaders and settlers in the early fifth century, through the
Norman Conquest of 1066, and beyond into the first century of Norman
rule in England. As a result, it is first and foremost the language of the
people, which historians refer to as Anglo-Saxons.
ii. The Middle English Period
• Middle English marks the middle period between Old English and
Modern English. There came changes in pronunciation, vocabulary and
grammar. In fact there were French loan words also. The considerable
number of old loan words had already entered into the speech of the
people. Middle English is framed at its beginning by the after-effects of
the Norman Conquest of 1066, and at its end by the arrival in Britain of
printing (in 1476) and by the important social and cultural impacts of the
English Reformation (from the 1530s onwards) and of the ideas of the
continental Renaissance.
III. The renaissance and Reformation
I. Early Tudor Period
• The Early Tudor Period has been defined as golden era in British history.
The period is named after the Tudor family that ruled and England and
Wales where authors and filmmakers have frequently sought inspiration
to this period. The war of the Roses ends in England with Henry Tudor
(Henry VII) claiming the throne. English literary and intellectual life, both
in its narrow-sense.
II. Elizabeth Period
• Elizabethan literature generally reflects the exuberant self-confidence of
a nation expanding its powers, increasing its wealth, and thus keeping
at bay its serious social and religious problems. The 17th cent. was to
be a time of great upheaval—revolution and regicide, restoration of the
monarchy, and, finally, the victory of Parliament, landed Protestantism,
and the moneyed interests.
III. Jacobean Period
• Jacobean literature begins with the drama, including some of
Shakespeare's greatest, and darkest, plays. Novelty was in great
demand, and the possibilities of plot and genre were exploited almost to
exhaustion.
IV. Caroline Period
• its general features characterised by civil war, rise of Puritanism, lack of
spirit of unity, dominance of intellectual spirit and decline of drama. We
studied the poetry of the age including Puritan Poetry, Metaphysical
Poetry and Cavalier poetry along with their features and major poets.
 This section of the unit studies Puritan poetry and Milton as a puritan
poet extensively; Metaphysical school of poetry thoroughly and Cavalier
poetry in its entirety. The last portion of the unit is devoted to the prose
of Caroline age especially the prose writers and their contribution to its
development.
V. Commonwealth Period/Puritan Interregnum
• The Commonwealth period, also known as the Puritan Interregnum, is a
literary epoch influenced by the English historical context between 1649
and 1660. A fundamental part of this epoch is the Puritan Revolution
which opposed to the influence of the Catholic Church in the country.
After his execution, Parliament and military had the power and England
had various forms of republican government with puritan ideas.
IV. The Enlightment (Neoclassical) Period
i. Restoration Period
• this literature is the attempt to come to terms with the political events that
had occurred in previous decades. The writings of this time are both
innovative and varied; the style and subject matter of the literature
produced during the Restoration period spanned the spectrum from
definitively religious to satirical and risqué.
ii. The Augustan Age
• The Augustan Age is called so because generally regarded as a golden
age, like the period of Roman History which had achieved political
stability and power as well a flourishing of the arts. Because of the
importance that was given to reason during the Augustan Age, this
period is also known as the Age of Reason.
iii. The Age of Johnson
• the Age of Johnson in English poetry is an age of transition and
experiment which ultimately led to the Romantic Revival. Its history is
the history of the struggle between the old and the new, and of the
gradual triumph of the new.
V. The Romantic Period
• The romantic period is a term applied to the literature of approximately the
first third of the nineteenth century. During this time, literature began to
move in channels that were not entirely new but were in strong contrast to
the standard literary practice of the eighteenth century.
VI. The Victorian Period and the 19th century
• The Victorian period of literature roughly coincides with the years that
Queen Victoria ruled Great Britain and its Empire (1837-1901). During this
era, Britain was transformed from a predominantly rural, agricultural society
into an urban, industrial one. New technologies like railroads and the steam
printing press united Britons both physically and intellectually. Although now
the period is popularly known as a time of prim, conservative moral values,
the Victorians perceived their world as rapidly changing. Religious faith was
 splintering into evangelical and even atheist beliefs. The working class,
women, and people of color were agitating for the right to vote and rule
themselves. Reformers fought for safe workplaces, sanitary reforms, and
universal education.
VII. The Modern Period
• Modernism is marked by a strong and intentional break with tradition. This
break includes a strong reaction against established religious, political, and
social views. Belief that the world is created in the act of perceiving it; that
is, the world is what we say it is.
VIII. The Postmodern Period
• Subjectivity, temporality, referentiality, progress, empiricism, and the rule of law
are among the concepts held dear by Enlightenment humanism and many
modernists. Postmodernism refers to a group of critics who, often inspired by
the postmodern culture in which they live, attempt to rethink a number of
concepts held dear by Enlightenment humanism and many modernists. The
aesthetic/cultural goods that regard and sometimes critique as
"postmodernism" are often referred to as "postmodernism."
C. Research on the following and gather each of their distinctive
features/characteristics (maximum of 5 sentences for each of them).

VIEW POINTS

Metaphysical Metaphysical poetry is a little bit different.

The poems classified in this group do
share common characteristics: they are
all highly intellectualized, use rather
strange imagery, use frequent paradox
and contain extremely complicated
thought. However, metaphysical poetry
is not regarded as a genre of poetry.

Symbolists Symbols concretize the abstract, have

multiple layers of meaning, are allusive,
create emotional responses, and are
clues about what is important to the
author.

Harlem Renaissance Harlem Renaissance were the influence

of the experience of slavery and
emerging African-American folk
traditions on black identity, the effects of
institutional racism, the dilemmas
inherent in performing and writing for
elite white audiences, and the question
of how to convey.

The Beats When two sound waves of equal or

nearly equal intensity and nearly equal
frequencies originate at the same time
and travel along the same direction, the
loudness of the resulting sound is not
uniform; rather it rises and falls at a
particular interval of time.

Confessional confessional poetry is that it focuses on

subject matter once considered taboo.
Issues like drug abuse, sexual guilt,
alcoholism, suicide and depression,
which were typically considered
shameful or embarrassing, were
discussed openly.
 New York School New York school is a result of an
aesthetic sensibility and writing style,
more than simply a location, although all
five poets did live in New York City at
some point during their formative years
as writers. Their poetry is steeped in the
facts, events, and objects of everyday
life, and it is characterized by an impulse
to blur the boundary between art and life;
in writing poetry that includes the
discourse and details of normal human
interaction, the poets conflated the
differences between what is normally
considered material for art and what
people experience in day-to-day
existence.u

Black Arts Movement The Black Arts Movement was a Black

nationalism movement that focused on
music, literature, drama, and the visual
arts made up of Black artists and
intellectuals. This was the cultural
section of the Black Power movement, in
that its participants shared many of the
ideologies of Black self-determination,
political beliefs, and African American
culture.

Task 2

Reflection Paper

A. Given the chance to do an analysis paper, which period would you choose? Which
movement will inspire you? Explain.

I'm attracted to medieval literature because I have a weakness for epic poetry and
chivalry (hence my attraction to legendary figures like King Arthur, Alexander, and
Robin Hood). It is also a period in English history which is hugely multi-cultural and the
linguistic landscape of Britain is constantly in flux, what with all the Scandinavian,
Saxon, and Norman invasions. I find medieval languages fascinating because they're
so unstable (in terms of orthography and dialect). it's such a rich cultural period and
so many of our modern genres can be traced back to this formative time.
B. What impact would this lesson be for you as a

1. Future teacher of literature?

This lesson not only does it help to upskill our command of the spoken language,
it also helps to strengthen our writing skills, stimulate our intellectual curiosity,
enhance our memory and encourage us to be critical, all of which are important
skills for any career. This kind of topic in literature are helpful to the future
teacher like me because it will be our guide in teaching this kind of lesson.

2. reader/viewer?
Literature enhances the adequacy of our ethical reflection and leads to more
accepting, tolerant viewpoints as a consequence of readers being faced with
an infinite range of characters, cultures and crises that they may not otherwise
come into contact with.