Zsara Abuyo, Elizabeth Fetene, Erica Sauro, Ryan Silvestre

Period 3

Romanticism

Originated in Europe during the 18th century in response to the Industrial Revolution Due to the growth in cities, people began to long for nature

Came to America during the 19th century Like Europeans, focused on individualism, intuitive perception, and

the assumption the natural world is inherently good while human society is corrupted

A revolt against the Enlightenment and Neoclassicism Romanticism = Emotion, Intuition > Knowledge, Intellect Neoclassic work had a lot of restraint and rules romanticism

expresses freely Emphasizes the individual Free from rules, spontaneous ; Solitary life > life in society Fascination of the past myths , mysticism in the middle ages Imagination is superior to reason

*KEY WORDS: Emotion, Nature, Imagination, Intuition, Rebelliousness

Romanticism

Nationalism Works were inspired by the common people or the masses instead

of popular literary works Interested in their own country, culture, folklore, etc. grew a

nationalistic spirit which reflected in their works Individualism

Individuality, free expression of emotion, creative Victor Hugo, romantic poet said romanticism is “liberalism in

literature” Revolution

translated French Revolution in to poetry Mocks/criticizes wars and industrialism Many wars during this era: Seven Years’ War, French Rev.,

American Rev. The Hero

The Byronic Hero - Rebellious, Goes through suffering but never gives up. Has much passion

Nature and Love Nature was the biggest inspiration to writers. Became a catalyst

to human thought inspires you to think

Romantic Themes

Lord Byron – created the Byronic Hero

Victor Hugo, said romanticism is “liberalism in literature”

Free Verse – poetry which is not written in traditional meter, but rhythmical Synecdoche – a form of metaphor which mentions a part and signifies the

whole Meter – the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry Alliteration – the repetition of identical of similar consonant sounds Lyric Poetry – a short poem of song like quality Ballads -  a relatively short narrative poem, written to be sung, with a simple

and dramatic action; they tell of love, death, the supernatural, or a combination.

Irony – contrast between actual meaning and the suggest of another meaning Imagery – the images of a literary work Allusion – a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work Paradox –a situation that seems be contradictory but is true Sonnet - normally a 14 line iambic pentameter poem Stanza – a repeated grouping 0f 3 or more lines with the same meter and

rhyme scheme

Literary Techniques

Born on April 7, 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the Lake District. Died on April 23, 1850.

The wonderful landscape deeply affected his imagination and gave him a love of nature.

Became an orphan at age 13 and was separated with his sister, Dorothy, but later reunited in 1795.

Became friends with Samuel Taylor Coleridge who helped write Lyrical Ballads(1798), and launched the English Romantic movement.

His poetry is most original in its vision of the organic relation between man and the natural world.

By the time he became widely appreciated by the critics and the public, his poetry lost much of its force and his radical politics had yielded to conservatism.

William Wordsworth

NOTABLE WORKS: Lyrical Ballads, Poems in Two Volumes, The Excursion.

The world is too much with us; late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;Little we see in Nature that is ours;We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,The winds that will be howling at all hours,And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,For this, for everything, we are out of tune;It moves us not. --Great God! I'd rather beA Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.

The world is too much with us

A 14 line sonnet measured in iambic pentameter Iambic Pentameter: Each line is divided into five pairs of two syllables each.

Contains a stressed vowel followed by an unstressed vowel. A pa-gan suck-led in a creed out-wornRhyme scheme: ABBA ABBA CDCDCD

Reflects his philosophy that humanity must get in touch with nature in order to progress spiritually.

Alliteration: Line 1: The world is too much with us 

Line 2: we lay waste our powers Metaphor:

Line 4: We have given our hearts away Comparison of hearts to attention or concern or to enthusiasm or life

Line 10: suckled in a creed outworn  Comparison of creed to a mother nursing her child

Oxymoron Line 4: sordid boon – shameful gain

Analysis

late and soon: Our fixation on materialism has been a problem in the past and will continue to be a problem in the future. 

sordid boon: shameful gain; tarnished blessing. This phrase is an oxymoron, a form of paradox that juxtaposes contradictory words. 

suckled . . . outworn: Brought up in an outdated religion. Proteus: In Greek mythology, a sea god who could change

shape at will and who possessed complete knowledge of the past, present, and future.  

Triton: In Greek mythology, a sea god who had the body of a man and the tail of a fish. He used a conch—the spiral shell of a mollusk—as a trumpet.

Analysis – cont.

Born in England during 1792, died in 1822

Expelled from Oxford University for his atheistic views and was estranged from his father during this time his controversial philosophies were developing

Was close friends with John Keats and Lord Byron and

Influenced by William Wordsworth Passionate in life and generous to his

friends, which caused him financial hardship

Attracted controversy for his challenges to religion, oppression, and his philosophy

Notable works: “Ode to the West Wind,” “Queen Mab”, “The Cloud”, “Ozymandias”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveler from an antique landWho said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert… Near them on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold commandTell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;And on the pedestal these words appear:`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Ozymandias

A 14 line sonnet measured in iambic pentameter Iambic Pentameter: Each line is divided into five pairs of two syllables each.

Contains a stressed vowel followed by an unstressed vowel. **Although the entire poem does not follow this exact pattern.

Line 4: “Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown” Line 12: “Nothing beside remains: round the decay” Rhyme scheme untraditional: 1-4 ABAB, 5-8 ACDC, 9-12 EDEF, 13-14 EF

Critical of human tyrants for everlasting glory Central Theme: Mocks the vanity of tyrants who think they will have

everlasting power They’re foolish; rule is ephemeral Uses a statue as a symbol statue is Ramses II large size = self-promotion,

royal ambition Irony: Claims he is the greatest king ever but really, his statue is broken

down in the desert Alliteration and Consonance: Lines 13-14 to emphasize and recreate

emptiness Uses an unstopped vowel “ay” to end the poem to emphasize the passing of

time. Time keeps spending away from Ozymandias’ life. Fits in with the fact that he creates distance

Analysis

Born on October 31, 1795 in London Both of his parents died when he was young Lived with Richard Abbey & John Rowland

Sandell shortly after He was an apprentice for an apothecary

surgeon & studied medicine He met Leigh Hunt who introduced him to

Percy Bysshe Shelly & William Woodsworth He wrote a 4000 line erotic. allegorical

romance Endymion. Summer of 1818, he had to take care of his

brother w/ TB. He feel in love with Fanny Brawne where his best works was written.

NOTABLE WORKS: "Ode to a Grecian Urn" "To Autumn" "Ode to a Nightingale"

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 charactery,

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 think 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

Or unreflecting love;--then on the shore

Of the wide world I stand alone, and think

Till love and fame to nothingness do sink

When I have fears that I may cease to be

First Alliteration of the key words "glean'd," garners," and "grain," as

well as the repetition of r sounds in "charactery," "rich," "garners,"ripen'd," and "grain.".

The harvest metaphor contains a paradox: Keats is both the field of grain (his imagination is like the grain to be harvested) and he is the harvester (writer of poetry).

Exhibits fear that he may not achieve his full creative potential (“full ripened grain”) by the time death arrives (in the form of “high-piled books” he has written). 

Second  he sees the world as full of material he could transform into poetry

(his is "the magic hand"); the material is the beauty of nature ("night's starr'd face") and the larger meanings he perceives beneath the appearance of nature or physical phenomena ("Huge cloudy symbols").

Analysis

Third parallels the idea of little time, in being only three and a half lines, rather

than the usual four lines of a Shakespearean sonnet; the effect  of this compression or shortening is of a slight speeding-up of time.

 He thinks about the human solitariness ("I stand alone") and human insignificance (the implicit contrast betwen his lone self and "the wide world"). The shore is a point of contact, the threshold between two worlds or conditions, land and sea; so Keats is crossing a threshold, from his desire for fame and love to accepting their unimportance and ceasing to fear and yearn. 

Fourth The poet's concern with time (not enough time to fulfill his poetic gift and

love) is supported by the repetition of "when" at the beginning of each quatrain

attributes two qualities to love: (1) it has the ability to transform the world for the lovers ("faery power"), but of course fairies are not real, and their enchantments are an illusion and (2) love involves us with emotion rather than thought ("I feel" and "unreflecting love").

Analysis – cont.

Born Dec. 10th 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts

Intelligent as a young child created rhyming stories as

entertainment for her friends Lived with a very strict father, "His heart

was pure and terrible" Ancestors were early Puritan settlers

from England Attended Amherst Academy and Mount

Holyoke Female Seminary  Secluded herself over time

Notable Works: “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" "A Bird came down the Walk"

Emily Dickinson

I heard a Fly Buzz – when I diedI heard a Fly buzz – when I

died

The Stillness in the Room

Was like the Stillness in the Air –

Between the Heaves of Storm –

The Eyes around – had wrung them dry –

And Breaths were gathering firm

For that last Onset – when the King

Be witnessed – in the Room -

I willed my Keepstakes – Signed away

What portion of me be

Assignable – and then it was

There interposed a Fly –

With Blue – uncertain – stumbling Buzz –

Between the light – and me –

And then the Windows failed – and then I could not see to see -

1st stanza:  "The Stillness in the Room" - creates peace, but isnt permanent "Was

like the Stillness in the Air -/Between the Heaves of Storm -"

2nd Stanza: "The Eyes around - had wrung them dry -/ And Breaths were

gathering firm - shows that people are waiting for her death (done crying) "For the last Onset - when the King/ Be witnessed - in the Room -

represents God, who will lead her into the afterlife

3rd Stanza: "I willed my Keepsakes - Signed away/ What portions of me be/

Assignable" - a Victorian Tradition - to will away away all material possessions 

4th Stanza "uncertain stumbling Buzz -" - the fly distracts the speaker from "the

light" "And then the Windows failed - and then/ I could not see to see" - the

speaker loses conscious and dies

Analysis

Poem focuses on the last moments before dying Repetition in 1st and 2nd stanza: "In the Room" - makes sure the

reader knows the setting It keeps the reader in the room

Fly - represents the minor character in the poem Importance - focuses on the process of death Represents the speakers inability to hold on to spirituality,

faith, or hope, in the face of death After the line "when the King/Be witnessed - in the Room -",

the fly distracts the speaker reminding him/her about death which stands "Between the light"

Light - represents the after life Poem says that there is an afterlife, after all. 

Analysis – cont.

Read carefully the following poem by William Wordsworth (The world is too much with us), paying close attention to the relationship between man and nature. Then, write a well-written essay arguing that Wordsworth's theme remains highly relevant today. Be generous with examples of people "getting and spending" while ignoring—or even abusing—nature.

Read the poem When I Have Fears carefully. Then compose a well-organized essay on how the use of figurative language ties into the Romantic movement.

In the poem, "Ozymandias," the speaker finds a dilapidated statue of a king in the desert. In a well-organized essay, discuss how the poem's literary devices reveal the author's attitude toward tyranny and leadership.

AP Style Prompts

Interactive Poetry Lesson

I wandered lonely as a cloud – W.W.

I wandered lonely as a cloudThat 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 stretched 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 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.

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1. Who wrote “The world is too much for us”?

2. Romanticism started in Europe during what century?

3. Why did people during Romanticism begin to have a longing for nature?

4. How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism?

5. Who had early Puritan settlers from England ancestors?

6. Which poet was influenced by William Wordsworth?

7. Romanticism was a revolt against what?

8. Who was an apprentice for an apothecary surgeon?

9. Who helped Wordsworth write lyrical ballads?

10. Who said romanticism is “liberalism in literature”?

11. Name two themes in Romantic poetry?

12. What is literary technique called that uses the repetition of identical of similar consonant sounds?

13. Which author uses iambic pentameter in his poem about tyranny and leadership?

14. What is iambic pentameter?

15. How did romanticism create a nationalistic spirit?

Quiz

Intro to Romanticism http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html http://www.buzzle.com/articles/romanticism-characteristics-of-romanticism.html http://www.uh.edu/engines/romanticism/introduction.html http://www.ehow.com/facts_6016879_definition-iambic-meter.html

William Wordsworth: http://www.biography.com/people/william-wordsworth-9537033 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth

Percy Bysshe Shelley http://www.enotes.com/percy-bysshe-shelley-criticism/shelley-percy-bysshe-

79097 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley

John Keats www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/66 www.online-literature.com/keats

Emily Dickinson http://www.biographyonline.net/poets/emily_dickinson.html http://www.gradesaver.com/emily-dickinsons-collected-poems/study-guide/

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