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1.“ hypo- ”means under; beneath

   hypodermic ( adj.) used for putting fluids into or taking fluids out of the body by going

                                       under the skin

   hypothesis ( n.) an idea or theory that is not proven but that leads to further study or discussion

   hypotonic ( adj.) having deficient tone or tension; having a lower osmotic pressure than

                                    a surrounding medium or a fluid under comparison

   hypocrisy ( n.) the behavior of people who do things that they tell other people not to do;

                                behavior that does not agree with what someone claims to believe or feel

   2.      Narrative poetry : Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often  

making use of the voices of a narrator and characters as well;

the entire story is usually written in metred verse. The poems

that make up this genre may be short or long, and the story it

relates to may be complex. It is usually dramatic, with objectives,

diverse characters, and metre.Narrative poems include

epics, ballads, idylls, and lays.

            lyrical poetry : Lyric poems typically express personal (often emotional) feelings and are

                               traditionally spoken in the present tense.Modern examples often have

                               specific rhyming schemes. Greek lyric poetry was defined by its musical

                               accompaniment, and modern forms are sometimes also set to music or a beat.

3.       Yasunari Kawabata: Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成,) was a Japanese short

   story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded

   prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968,

   the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works

   have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.  

4.       Yukio Mishima : Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫,) is the pen name of Kimitake

    (日本海明威)   Hiraoka (平岡公威,) a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor,

                          and film director. Mishima is considered one of the most important

                          Japanese authors of the 20th century; he was nominated three times

                          for the Nobel Prize in Literature and was poised to win the prize in 1968

                          although lost the award to his fellow countryman Yasunari Kawabata,

                          presumably because of his radical right-wing activities. He is also

                          remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku after a failed coup d'état

                          attempt, known as the "Mishima Incident". 作品 :『金閣寺』

5.     Percy Bysshe Shelley : Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English

                                              Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as amongst the    

                                              finest lyric poets in the English language. A radical in his

                                              poetry as well as his political and social views, Shelley did

                                              not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition for

                                              his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a

                                              key member of a close circle of visionary poets and  

                                              writers.

6.            Mary Shelley : Mary Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer,

                                        dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for

                                        her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus

                                       (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband,

                                        the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her

                                        father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her

                                        mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

7.            Edgar Allan Poe : Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor, and

                                            literary critic, considered part of the American

                                            Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and

                                            the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American

                                            practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered the

                                            inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited

                                            with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.

                                            He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a

                                            living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult

                                            life and career.

8.           John Keats : John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main

                                    figures of the second generation of Romantic poets along with

                                    Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work's having

                                    been in publication for only four years before his death.

9.“ Ode on a Grecian Urn ”: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a poem written by the

      English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819 and published anonymously

      in the January 1820, Number 15 issue of the magazine Annals of the Fine Arts

      (see 1820 in poetry). The poem is one of several "Great Odes of 1819",

      which include "Ode on Indolence", "Ode on Melancholy", "Ode to a Nightingale",

      and "Ode to Psyche". Keats found earlier forms of poetry unsatisfactory for his

      purpose, and the collection represented a new development of the ode form.

      He was inspired to write the poem after reading two articles by English artist

      and writer Benjamin Haydon. Keats was aware of other works on classical Greek

      art, and had first-hand exposure to the Elgin Marbles, all of which reinforced his

      belief that classical Greek art was idealistic and captured Greek virtues,

      which forms the basis of the poem.

 Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,

 Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,

 Sylvan historian, who canst thus express 
   

 A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
 

 What leaf-fring'd legend haunt about thy shape
   

Of deities or mortals, or of both,
       

In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
   

What men or gods are these?  What maidens loth?

What mad pursuit?  What struggle to escape?
       

What pipes and timbrels?  What wild ecstasy?

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
   

Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;

Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,
   

Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:

Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
   

Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
       

Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss,

Though winning near the goal - yet, do not grieve;
       

She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
   

For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
   

Your leaves, nor ever bid the spring adieu;

And, happy melodist, unwearied,
   

For ever piping songs for ever new;

More happy love! more happy, happy love!

For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd,
       

For ever panting, and for ever young;

All breathing human passion far above,
   

That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd,
       

A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.

Who are these coming to the sacrifice?
   

To what green altar, O mysterious priest,

Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,
   

And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?

What little town by river or sea shore,
   

Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,
       

Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?

And, little town, thy streets for evermore
   

Will silent be; and not a soul to tell
       

Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.

O Attic shape!  Fair attitude! with brede
   

Of marble men and maidens overwrought,

With forest branches and the trodden weed;
   

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought

As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
   

When old age shall this generation waste,
       

Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
   

Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all
       

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

10. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice,

      but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

      The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help

      man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope

      and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of him past.

      The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props,

      the pillars to help him endure and prevail.