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Romantic Period

Romantic Period. Poetry Notes. Robert Burns. 1759-1796 A Scottish Farmer Devoted to collecting and rewriting Scottish folk songs Wrote the lyrics to “Auld Lang Syne ” which people still sing today at New Years He wrote about the common, rustic life

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Romantic Period

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  1. Romantic Period Poetry Notes

  2. Robert Burns • 1759-1796 • A Scottish Farmer • Devoted to collecting and rewriting Scottish folk songs • Wrote the lyrics to “Auld Lang Syne” which people still sing today at New Years • He wrote about the common, rustic life • Wrote in Scottish dialect- a choice, he could write in the “King’s English”

  3. Dialect – the speech characteristic of a particular region or group • “Y’all have a real nice day now! I reckon the rain’ll stop any minute” • “I told ya to pa’k the ca’ and get back hea’ quick.” • “Crikey mate! Ah didn’ see yabehin me there.” • “He’s as fit as the butcher’s dog! Too bad he is such a git!” American Southern Bostonian Australian British slang

  4. Simile • A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as like, as, than, or resembles. EX: • He is like a cheetah on the football field. • “The holy time is quiet as a nun,” ~Wordsworth The SPEED of the man is being compared to the SPEED of a Cheetah. The QUIETNESS of the Time is being compared to the QUIETNESS of the Nun.

  5. William Blake • 1757 – 1827 • Poet and Artist • Happily married to the same woman (Catherine Boucher) • Never travelled – lived in London most of his life (all but three years) • People thought his work and ideas were “mad” and so thought Blake must be a little crazy too • The bible had a great impact on his work “I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s.”

  6. The Number of the Beast

  7. Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience • “The Songs of Innocence and Experience, a series of illustrated lyrics, were first published as a combined volume in 1794, although the Songs of Innocence were first engraved in 1789, and the Songs of Experience in 1793 - 4.” • It is “a set of thematically related lyrics organized by a general principle of wishing to show the contrast between the state of Innocence (childhood, idealism, youthful joy, the lamb) and that of Experience (disillusionment, social criticism, world-weariness, and combination of energy and violence of the 'Tiger').” • http://www.newi.ac.uk/rdover/blake/songs_of.htm

  8. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 -1834 • Attended Cambridge University • Reputation for being curious • Left university w/out a degree-headed to autopian colony • Thought Wordsworth was the better poet • Philosopher – he laid the foundations for literary theory • A painful life: his marriage collapsed, addicted to laudanum (alcohol/opium mixture, prescribed as a painkiller- given to infants!), and an inability to discipline his mind

  9. “Kubla Khan” • Written in a reverie (dream) brought on by opium • When interrupted by a visitor at his door, he could not complete the poem. • He had been reading the history of Kubla Khan, grandson of Ghengis Khan.

  10. text analysis: sound devices “Kubla Khan” is a poem that begs to be read aloud. The sounds of the words evoke almost as much as their meaning. Coleridge uses a variety of sound devices to unify his stanzas, create a mood, and delight the ear. These sound devices include: • alliteration—the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words, as in KublaKhan • consonance—the repetition of consonant sounds in the middle and at the end of words, as in As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted • assonance—the repetition of a vowel sound in two or more stressed syllables that do not end with the same consonant, as in ceaseless turmoil seething • onomatopoeia—the use of words whose sounds echo their meanings, such as burst

  11. Create a chart on the back of your Dream paper that looks like this one: Keep track of the different kinds of sound devices used. Find one example of each (you must find one besides the one given)

  12. Personification • Giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas). Examples: • The cars dance across the icy road. • The heartbeat of the city. • The sky cried buckets during the storm. Describes the cars movement- cars cannot dance, but the movement looks like a human would. The city has not true heart, yet we are using this description to say the city seems alive and to say that the place where the “heartbeat” is must be the center of the city’s energy. The sky cannot cry or be sad, but it helps make the storm seem sad and that there was a lot of rain.

  13. Metaphor a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance Example: • Juan was a hurricane on the basketball court. • The assignment was a breeze. • Life is a highway, I want to ride it. (Credit to Rascal Flatts) Juan had a lot of speed and power when playing basketball. The assignment was light – easy to complete. Life passes by fast! Think of how the song meaning changes if life is a winding, back road.

  14. Poetry is the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling.” William Wordsworth 1770-1850 • An orphan by age 13 • Unhappy with choices for life – educated man with no title, wealth, or business prowess • A long walking tour led him to pursue poetry • He and his sister, Dorothy, moved close to poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Coleridge and Wordsworth greatly influenced one another and their works. • Poet Laureate 1843 • A minor government official • Family secret: He fathered an illegitimate child in France

  15. Nature’s Power • Wordsworth loved nature in all forms. • He believed it made him a better person. • Loving nature: • Quiets his mind • Lightens his mood • guides him to kind acts • Brings him closer to God.

  16. I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretch'd in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but theyOut-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay,In such a jocund company: I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thoughtWhat wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.

  17. George Gordon, Lord Byron • George Gordon inherited his title, Lord Byron, when his cousin died. George was only 10 at the time. • He “awoke one morning,” as Byron later said, “and found myself famous.” – after publishing poems • Obsessive determination to prove himself: • Extraordinarily handsome; had a club foot; learned swimming, boxing, and horse riding; had a glandular problem that led to obesity, so he went on brutal binge diets • Shocking private life: • Relations with half sister, Augusta • Separated from wife • Pro-French • Illegitimate child

  18. “She Walks in Beauty” • Byron satirized Wordsworth and Coleridge • He was pals with the Shelleys, Mary and Percy – their friendship marks his most productive time of writing • He died of fevers at age 36 • Supposedly inspired by Lady Wilmot Horton, whom he saw at a ball • Lady Horton was in mourning at the time and was dressed, as was the fashion, in a black dress with glittering spangles

  19. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 -1822) • Attended Oxford but was expelled when he published a pamphlet on atheism(belief that there is no god) • Believed human thought and expression had the power to change life for the better • Unconventional: • He eloped at age 19 with 16 yr old Harriet Westbrook • 3 yrs later, he ditches her for MARY SHELLEY, a 17 yr old daughter of two famous intellectuals (he also brought along Mary’s half sister, Claire, who became the mother of Byron’s bastard daughter, Allegra) • After Harriet’s suicide, Percy and Mary marry. (He also abandons his two kids with Harriet) • Percy’s death at age 29 was due to drowning while he was boating in a storm. The coast guard and Percy’s friend tried to get him to turn around, but he refused. Percy’s wife, MARY SHELLEY, is the author of Frankenstein, which she wrote at age 19 while on vacation with Percy visiting their friend, Lord Byron.

  20. Ozymandias • Written as part of a contest with Keats • Inspired by an Egyptian artifact exhibit (Ozymandias is Greek for Ramses II) • The poem is a sonnet – fourteen lines • There are _________ speakers in the poem: • The “speaker” • The “traveller” • And Ozymandias • Themes – the test of time and to be careful of PRIDE • Irony in 2 ways: • Ozymandias says to look at all he has accomplished, yet it is all dilapitidated • Shelley’s message is that our works will not last, yet his poem is still being read!

  21. John Keats • orphan at 14 • started learning medicine at 15 • completed medical training and was a doctor by age 20 • Became a poet • nursed brother Tom, who was sick with T.B. • contracted T.B. as well and, as a doctor, knew his diagnosis was fatal • fell in love with Fanny Brawne but, due to illness and money, was never able to marry • only time he travelled was when he knew he was dying-Italy • died at 25 - a great poet during a short lifetime - many other famous poets, had they the same life length, would never have been known (Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Wordsworth)

  22. “When I Have Fears” • A Sonnet • Keats died within three years of writing this poem • Keats establishes three fear: • that he will never be able to write all that he desires • That he will never have a true romance- fall in love • that he will no longer see those he loves • The turn- located in line 12-13-14  • Keats says the way he handles his fears is that he allows the panic to sink away to nothing- realization he has no control • Why might Keats not be quite as okay with death as it seems? "I may cease" Fanny Brawne, John’s love

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