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In Ritsos’ Moonlight Sonata what sentiments does the woman’s confession provoke/inspire to you and how these compare to the ones felt by the young man who remains silent throughout her long monologue.

Yannis Ritsos' "Moonlight Sonata" is a poignant and emotionally charged poem that presents a deeply intimate monologue of a woman speaking to a silent young man. The setting is night, with the moonlight casting a dreamlike atmosphere over the scene. The woman's confession, filled with personal revelations, memories, and emotions, evokes a variety of sentiments in the reader and provokes a complex response.

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In Ritsos’ Moonlight Sonata what sentiments does the woman’s confession provoke/inspire to you and how these compare to the ones felt by the young man who remains silent throughout her long monologue.

Discuss the portrayal and effects of loss in the poetry of Cavafy

My Mother's Sin and Other Stories A series of lectures on Modern Greek literature taught by Dr Dimitra Tzanidaki-Kreps This is a first class essay of one of my students, Jenny Wight, who took my course this year writing beautifully on the effects of loss in Cavafy's poetry.

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Discuss the portrayal and effects of loss in the poetry of Cavafy

Poetics and Histories: To What Extent Did C. P. Cavafy Alter Historical Narratives, and for What Artistic Purposes?

stuident Name: Joseph Watson Module Lecturer: Dr Dimitra Tzanidaki-Kreps Date of Submission: 11/01/2016

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Poetics and Histories: To What Extent Did C. P. Cavafy Alter Historical Narratives, and for What Artistic Purposes?

How does Seferis’ mythical method interact with Greece’s lasting socio-political issues?

Seferis uses the mythical method in his poetry to allude to and comment upon social and political issues in Greece in his lifetime. Before discussing his poetry, it is important to define what is meant by Seferis’ mythical method. This method can be described as allusive, as although Seferis does make direct references to myth he does so in inventive ways, for example by using narrative space, symbols and characters to evoke Greek myths.

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How does Seferis’ mythical method interact with Greece’s lasting socio-political issues?

The form of Dramatic Monologue as perfected by Ritsos’ poetry.

Yannis Ritsos is widely regarded as one of the most significant figures in contemporary Greek poetry. He managed to revolutionise the idea of a dramatic monologue and create not just beautiful poetry, but also a multifaceted art form that has depth on psychological, social, and philosophical levels throughout all of his publications. The dramatic monologue form was popularised by Victorian poets such as Robert Browning, but Ritsos revitalised it and many poets to this day still use his style as inspiration. His ability to construct identities and characters that the reader can genuinely sense and almost experience is skilful.

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The form of Dramatic Monologue as perfected by Ritsos’ poetry.

Discuss the portrayal and effects of loss in the poetry of Cavafy

My Mother's Sin and Other Stories A series of lectures on Modern Greek literature taught by Dr Dimitra Tzanidaki-Kreps This is a first class essay of one of my students, Jenny Wight, who took my course this year writing beautifully on the effects of loss in Cavafy's poetry.

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Discuss the portrayal and effects of loss in the poetry of Cavafy

Theatricality, didacticism, prosaic verse, use of persons as symbols, contemplative mood, flashbacks are some of Cavafy’s recurring ‘tropes’. Discuss.

Within the vast poetry collection of Constantine Cavafy, arguably, a pattern of recurring tropes emerges, offering the readers an in depth understanding of what defines his artistry. The poems that I have chosen for this essay being Young Men of Sidon, Alexandrian Kings and Kaisarion, from his book The Collected poems. One might say that they serve as an example of Cavafy’s gravitation towards an array of literary devices such as theatricality, didacticism, prosaic verse, use of persons as symbols, contemplative mood and flashbacks, one might say that they create a narrative that extends beyond the individual poems, inviting us to explore the timeless themes captured by Cavafy.

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Theatricality, didacticism, prosaic verse, use of persons as symbols, contemplative mood, flashbacks are some of Cavafy’s recurring ‘tropes’. Discuss.

Hyperion or the hermit in Greece

Concept, dramaturgy and performance by Dimitra Kreps

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Hyperion or the hermit in Greece

«Examine how homoerotic love is expressed in Cavafy’s erotic poetry» By Yousuf Danawi, Reading University

This essay aims to examine the manner in which homoerotic love is expressed in Constantine Peter Cavafy’s erotic poetry.Initially, it will provide a brief introduction entailing contextual information. Subsequently, this essay will bestow an intricate analysis of his erotic poems, with a particular focus on elucidating recurrent themes pertaining tohomoerotic love. The analysis will explore both the formal and thematic constituents of Cavafy’s erotic poetry, accompanied by a pervading extraction of deeper meaning.This examination will be enhanced utilising relevant secondary literature. The primary source that consists of the poems to be discussed in this essay derives from a digital anthology that comprises Cavafy’s ‘Recognised’, ‘Denounced’, and ‘Hidden’ poems

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«Examine how homoerotic love is expressed in Cavafy’s erotic poetry» By Yousuf Danawi, Reading University

ἐξ ἐρίων δὴ καὶ κλωστήρων καὶ ἀτράκτων

This essay examines that metaphor in the context of the political and war situation at the time Lysistrata was first performed. It considers traditional gender roles in the fifth-century Greek polis and Lysistrata’s inversion of those roles in her weaving analogy. Aristophanes’ comedic purpose in the weaving speech, in Lysistrata as a whole, and more generally across his corpus is examined. In addition, some observations are made about the sound pattern of Lysistrata’s speech and, in a personal argument, a speculative suggestion is advanced that the audience might have associated her cadences with the familiar rhythms of a domestic weaving loom.

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ἐξ ἐρίων δὴ καὶ κλωστήρων καὶ ἀτράκτων
Υποβλήθηκε από joanna την Τετ, 2009-11-11 13:34.

Παν/μιο του Reading, εξετάσεις για τη γλώσσα: Α έτος - αρχάριοι (Δήμητρα Τζανιδάκη-Kreps)

THE UNIVERSITY OF READING

Institution-Wide Language Programme

MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE: Level 1

(LA1PK1)

Two hours

Answer ALL questions.

Answers should be written on the question

paper.



1. Fill in the gaps in the following

twotexts by choosing one of the words given in brackets.

(15%)

Example: Πoιoς

κoιμάται σε αυτό τo δωμάτιo;

(ποιοι, ποιος, ποιες)

Μεθαύριο

........................... (θα καλέσουμε,

καλέσαμε, καλούμε) για φαγητό

.........................(ο αδελφός μου, τον

αδελφό μου, οι αδελφοί μου). Η

Γιώτα θα αγοράσει τα κρασιά και

τα ...................(φρούτα, φρούτο,

φρούτου). Θα έρθει και η μαμά

.......... (με, σε, για) τη φίλη της,

την κυρία Γεωργία. Η Γιώτα

θέλει..................(θα στρώσεις, θα

στρώσουμε, να στρώσει) το

τραπέζι και …………………(να

μαγειρέψει, μαγείρεψε, θα

μαγειρέψει).

Κατερίνα μου,

Μου ......................

(δίνει, έδωσε, θα δώσει) μεγάλη

χαρά χθες

που........................(έρθεις, ήρθες,

ήρθε) ο αδελφός σου και με

……………..(είδα, είδε είδαμε).

Ευτυχώς ο καιρός

..............................(είναι, ήταν,

ήμουν) πολύ καλός και

έτσι............................. (πήγες,

πήγαμε, πάμε) για βόλτα και

.......................(απόλαυσες,

απολαύσαμε, απολαμβάνεις) την

ωραία μέρα. ..................... (Τρώμε,

Φάγαμε, Τρώγαμε) πολύ καλά στην

ταβέρνα κοντά στο σπίτι μου και

μετά ....................(έφυγε, φύγατε,

έφυγες) για να προλάβει το τρένο.

Θα χαρώ πολύ να ξανάρθει και να

περάσουμε όμορφα μαζί πάλι.

Με πολλή αγάπη,

Μάρω


2. Put the following sentences into the

plural as in the example below:

(15%)

Πρέπει να πάρω τo βιβλίo μαζί

αύριo. è Πρέπει να πάρoυμε τα

βιβλία μαζί αύριo.

(a) Η νέα διευθύντρια

είναι πολύ αυστηρή.

(b) Ο γιος μoυ δεν ξέρει να

χορεύει.

(c) Πoιoς φοβάται τo σκύλο;

(d) Θα αγοράσω την

κόκκινη γραβάτα για τον μπαμπά

μου.


3. Read the following two radio

advertisements and answer ALL the questions IN ENGLISH. You

need to supply the line number where you found your answer

to be awarded full marks per question.

(25%)

1st

advertisement:


Καλοκαίρι στην

Αθήνα . Κίνηση, θόρυβος,

ζέστη...

Ναι, θέλετε να φύγετε για λίγες

μέρες, αλλά πού θα πάτε;

Ξέρετε;

Αν όχι, το γραφείο ταξιδίων

Αιγαίο έχει σίγουρα τη λύση.

Ταξιδέψτε στις Κυκλάδες μαζί

μας και περάστε μία ή δύο

αξέχαστες εβδομάδες στη Σύρο,

την Τήνο, τη Μύκονο, την Πάρο, τη

Σαντορίνη.

Χαρείτε τον ήλιο και τη

θάλασσα.

Οι Κυκλάδες σάς περιμένουν.

Εσείς τι περιμένετε;

Γραφείο ταξιδίων Αιγαίο, στη

Φιλελλήνων 62. Τηλ. 210 3230226.

Και ... καλές διακοπές!


a) What does spending the summer in Athens

entail?

line number:

b) Who is the advertisement

by?

line number:

c) Which complex of islands and which specific islands

are advertised?

line number:


d) How long are the holiday packages which are

advertised for?

line number:

e) What is the wish made in the last line of the

advertisemet?


2ndAdvertisement:


Ελένη: Σπύρο, κάτι πήρες

από το ψυγείο;

Σπύρος: Εγώ; Τίποτα δεν πήρα.

Λίγο νεράκι μόνο ήπια.

Ελένη: Και τότε ποιος

έφαγε τις έξι κρέμες σοκολάτα

που έφτιαξα;

Σπύρος: Τα παιδιά, Ελένη μου.

Ποιος άλλος;

Ελένη: Τι λες, Σπύρο; Τα

παιδιά είναι στη γιαγιά τους

σήμερα το πρωί!

Σπύρος: Ε, καλά... Ίσως έφαγα

μια-δυο κρεμούλες κι εγώ ο

καημένος...

Ελένη: Αχ, Σπύρο, τι θα κάνω

με σένα;

Σπύρος: Δε φταίω εγώ,

Ελενίτσα μου. Τα χεράκια σου και

οι κρέμες ΜΑΜΑ

ΜΙΑ

φταίνε.

Φωνή: Κρέμες ΜΑΜΑ ΜΙΑ.

Ποτέ δεν μπορείτε να φάτε μόνο

μία!


a) What does Eleni ask Spyrosfirst?

line number:

b) What did Spyros claim he took from the

fridge?

line number:

c) Why is Eleni interrogating Spyros?

line number:

d) What does Eleni say about the children?

line number:

e) What does Spyros admit?

line number:

f) Who does Spyros blame in the end?

line number:

g) What is the advertised product?

line number:


3. Write 120 words on ONE of the

following topics IN GREEK.

(45%)

· EITHER (a) You have just

moved into a new bigger

house.

Write a letter to a friend of yours describing

it.

Include also some information about the area it

is

in and ask for advice on how you could

furnish

it.

· OR (b) You

took a last minute city break but you

were

very disappointed. The place you visited was

not

nice,

the hotel was dirty, the weather was bad

and

and you did not like the food.

Write

a letter to your best friend, who could

not

join you, about your experience.


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