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Romantic Poetry

Romantic Poetry. The English and the American. Romantic Poetry. Mostly 1800s Language of every day man (even though it doesn’t appear that way to our modern minds) Topics that every one could relate to

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Romantic Poetry

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  1. Romantic Poetry The English and the American

  2. Romantic Poetry • Mostly 1800s • Language of every day man (even though it doesn’t appear that way to our modern minds) • Topics that every one could relate to • Nature, human nature, carpe diem, worship of imagination and sensation (a direct backlash to religion that shunned the natural self) • Nature NatureNature • Size (large) • Use the ordinary to talk about transcending the ordinary existence

  3. Romantic Poets (England) • William Wordsworth (1770-1850) – “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”; “Composed Upon a Westminster Bridge”; “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”; “My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold”; “Lucy” • Percy Shelley (1792-1822) – “Ozymandias”; “Ode to the West Wind”; “Adonais – An Elegy on the Death of John Keats”; “The Cloud” • John Keats (1795-1821) – “Ode to a Grecian Urn; “When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be”; “To Autumn”

  4. My heart leaps up when I behold MY heart leaps up when I behold     A rainbow in the sky:  So was it when my life began,    So is it now I am a man,  So be it when I shall grow old Or let me die!  The child is father of the man:  And I could wish my days to be  Bound each to each by natural piety.  William Wordsworth    

  5. I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD I WANDERED 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 shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed--and gazed--but little thought What 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 eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. 1804.

  6. Adonais • Adonais

  7. When I have Fears that I may cease to be    John Keats WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be  Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,  Before high-piled books, in charact'ry,  Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain;  When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,  And feel that I may never live to trace  Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;  And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!  That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power  Of unreflecting love;—then on the shore     Of the wide world I stand alone, and think,     Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.

  8. American Transcendentalist Poets • Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) – “Ode to Beauty”; “The World-Soul”; “Song of Nature” • Walt Whitman (1819-1892) – “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”; “A Noiseless Patient Spider”; “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”; “There Was a Child Went Forth”; “Song of the Open Road”

  9. Prose of the Romantic Period • Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott • Les Miserablesby Victor Hugo • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne • The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson • Walking by Henry David Thoreau

  10. The World-Soul • The World-Soul

  11. When I heard a learn’d astronomer WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer;  When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;  When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;  When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,  How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,  In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,  Look’dup in perfect silence at the stars.

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