LET2622 EXAM STUDY GUIDE "Introduction to
Literature Studies. University of South Africa (Unisa)
"Must you have battle in your heart forever? / The bloody toil of combat? Old contender, / will you not
yield to the immortal gods? / That nightmare cannot die, being eternal / evil itself—horror, and pain,
and chaos; / there is no fighting her, no power can fight her, / all that avails is flight."
Homer's The Odyssey Book 12, Lines 125-130.
"He proposed, in a few words, that one of us should die to preserve the existence of the others."
Pym, pg. 112
"The clouds methought would open, and show riches/Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked/ I
cried to dream again."
The Tempest, Act 3. sc. 2, 154-156
"No luck/the fair wind failed us when our prudence failed."
The Odyssey, book 10, 29-30
"I relate these things and circumstances minutely, and I relate them, it must be understood, precisely as
they appeared to us"
Pym, 100-101
," 'With twenty ships I mounted the Phrygian sea, / As my immortal mother showed the way. / I followed
the given fates. Now barely seven / Ships are left, battered by wind and sea, / And I myself, unknown
and unprovisioned, / Cross the Libyan wilderness, an exile / Driven from Europe and from Asia -' / But
Venus chose to hear no more complaints / And broke in, midway through his bitterness:"
Aenied, Book 1 lines 525-533
"But the dedicated man, / Aeneas, thoughtful through the restless night, / Made up his mind, as kindly
daylight came, / To go out and explore the strange new places, / To learn what coast the wind had
brought him to / And who were living there, men or wild creatures - / for wilderness was all he saw"
Aenied Book 1 lines 411-417
"If you go off to die, then take us, too,to face all things with you; but if your paststill lets you put your
hope in arms, which nowyou have put on, then first protect this house."
Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 2, lines 914-7
Consider the following text "Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his
heart and speaks another."
The Odyssey Pg. ?????
"Let me live here ever; So rare a wondered father and a wise Makes this place Paradise."
Miranda (Act 5, Scene 1) ( The Tempest )
"And "blood" too, that word of all words- so rife at all times with mystery, and suffering, and terror- how
trebly full of import did it now appear- how chillily and heavily did its vague syllables fall, amid the deep
gloom of my prison, into the innermost recesses of my soul!"
, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Chapter 3 pg. 39
"I'll show thee the best springs. I'll pluck thee berries./ I'll fish for thee and get thee wood enough./ A
plague upon the tyrant that I serve./ I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,/ Thou wondrous man."
The Tempest Act 2. Scene 2 (166-170)
"Thy Father was the Duke of Milan and/ a prince of power./ 'Sir, are you not my father?'/Thy mother
was a piece of virtue and said thou wast my daughter. And thy Father was Duke of Milan, and his only
heir/ and princess no worse issued."
Tempest 1.2.67-73
"I sing of warfare and a man at war. From the sea-coast of Troy in early days he came to Italy by destiny,
to our Lavinian western shore. A fugitive, this captain, buffeted cruelly on land as on the sea."
The Aeneid Book I lines 1-5
"May God forgive me, but now, for the first time, there flashed through my mind a thought, a thought
which I will not mention, and I felt myself making a step toward the ensanguined spot."
Pym Pg. 102
" It is probable, indeed, that our intimate communion had resulted in a partial interchange of character"
Pym, Pg 19
"Full fathom five thy father lies. / Of his bones are coral made. / Those are pearls that were his eyes. /
Nothing of him that doth fade / But doth suffer a sea change/ Into something rich and strange. / Sea
nymphs hourly ring his knell."
