Discussion Questions for the Week of 27 September 2004

Students in English and History of Art 151, Brown University, 2004

John Everett Millais

• Expression in Millais' Portrait of a Girl (Sophie Gray)
• Millais's Portrait of John Ruskin
• Literary References and Mood in Mariana
• Mortality, Purity, and Religious Contemplation in Autumn Leaves
• Different Methods of Confronting Mortality (The Vale of Rest)
• The Contrast Between the Supernatural and Natural in Ferdinand Lured by Ariel
• Seduction and Foreshadowing of Disaster in The Woodman's Daughter
• Mariana and Angelo or Mary and the Angel
• Millais's Melancholic Beauty in Autumn Leaves
• Millais's Dramatic Portrait of a Girl
• Sympathy and Vividness in Millais's The Blind Girl
• A Transitional Work: A Dream of the Past -- Sir Isumbras at the Ford
• The Later Years of John Everett Millais' Portraits: Impressionistic Genius or Lazy self-indulgence?
• Mortality, Purity, and Religious Contemplation in Autumn Leaves
• Combining Details and Mood in The Blind Girl
• Momentary Detail in Millais's Ophelia
• Capturing a Transient Moment: Millais' Autumn Leaves
• Artistic Choices in Millais's Illustration for "Mariana" in the Moxon Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson

• Description versus Narration in "The Lady of Shalott"

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