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engl 2823
romantic
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| when was Romantic prd | 1790-1836 or -1830 or 1815 |
| what is romanticism? | -"theory about the nature and origin of art" -"a historical phenomenon which must be assoc w/political and social circumastances" -all of the above |
| french revolution | 1789-constitutional monarchy est 1790-france decl a democracy 1793-king ececuted Jan 21 "we have just convinced ourselves taht king is only a man" 1792-sept massacres -natl convention est Republic 1793-94- "The Terror" |
| french revolution continued | |
| Impact of french revolution in england | -Britain emerges as industrial & naval power -transformation of political culture and ideas of nation -incr in circulation of newspapers & mass lit -suspension of habeas corpus 1794 |
| Important events | -18803-louisiana purchase -1805-battle of trafalgar -1810-financial collapse of several london business houses -1811-king declared unfit to rule -war of 1812 -1812-prime minister murdered in hse of commons |
| Important events cont'd | -george II dies in 1760 -George III rules 1760-1820 regency england 1810-20 William IV 1830-37 -Napoleon invaded Russia w/500,000 troops -terrible food shortages & soaring food prices & mounting resentment of war |
| The contrast 1792 Newspaper | British Liberty-good French Liberty-bad |
| industrial revolution | -began b4 Victorian era -impacted class structure -growing urban centers |
| the big 6 of the Romantics | -Blake -Wordsworth -Coleridge -Byron -Shelley -Keats prolific, really good but problematic b/c had many other authors that were good including women |
| English romanticism themes | -imagination-creative power -sense and sensibility -nature -reason -myth of personal feeling -revolution --Wollstonecraft calls for a "revolution in female manners" --Shelley's Prometheurs Unbound (1820) "yet I am king over myself" |
| literary form | -emergence of Gothic as a genre (the Monk, 1779) -epistolary form -epic -drama (not too common) -Chivalric romances (allusion to the past allowed for contemporary resonances) -popularity of hypertext -etc |
| 8/26/11 | Blake |
| Blake | -breaks from artistic tradition -symbolic -hand draw and etch copper plates. had to write backwards -run copy of copper plates -graphic poet -does a lot about O.T. -saw himself as both prophet and poet -attended dinner parties -underappreciated w |
| Blake | -has formal education -theme: man's capabilities -difficult artist to understand b/c symbolism -humanity has power to create own world -he's not always as he seems |
| "I'm in a state of innocense" | unexperienced, purity -to Blake means accepting of things around him -e.g. government, religion |
| experience | realization, awakening and questioning of laws, religion, gov't -p. 43 "The Lamb" |
| How do we see innocense in "the Lamb" -Songs of Innocense | -sounds like nursery rime on purpose -talks about innocent child, which is Jesus -answers to the questions: this is who made you |
| "The Tyger" -Songs of Experience | -makes illusions to ppl |
| p 44 Songs of Innocence -"Chimny Sweepers" | -fire constantly going for heat and cooking -children cleaned them esp n fam of poverty -made child labor laws agnst soon aftr -bad soot & dreams of coffins -then tlks about God coming& helping him thru -innocence b/c bad now but they see the other |
| p 47 Songs of Experience -2nd "The Chimney Sweeper" | -he is happy, dancing, and sweeping b/c it's expected of child -parents out of touch w/reality of situation -no color, stormy, carrying soot -image in this context is really important |
| p 47 "Holy Thursday" -innocence | -guardians of the poor-harmonious songs, have pitty -colorful |
| "holy thursday -experience | -thorns -being critical of HT here -e.g. is it a song of joy? no b/c poor children -this is not holy b/c showiness in midst of poverty |
| p 49 "London" | -oppression |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | -wrote Vindication of Rights of Woman in 6 wks -wrote about women as weaker one -nontraditional -she chngd content of edu-thot women and men are rationally = -husband agreed |
| what is Wollstonecraft's style of writing | persuasive -content more important than wording and sentimental emotional, love -wants to use logic and reason regardless of idea that's masculine. trying to prove that women also have these qualities -says women are complicate -talks about middle/upp |
| how does she handle couterarguement that men are stronger than women? | how can you raise children if your education is this limited p66-67 |
| marriage | friend and not humbled dependent -women taught to lk pretty, flirt. they r innocent and when get old no longer have these qualities, so easy for men to cheat b/c they taught to look for beauty and innocence |
| p 73 wont speak disrepectfully of love but should have truth | healthier marriage |
| women taught to please, look charming and pretty but what happens when get married and they see the real you | w/o educating women may convince them to cheat p67 |
| brute | not big bully, but animals and children and women -meant to be controlled -children should obey, but they need to think for themselves also |
| p74 womens first with should be? | take care of yourself first, strengthen body and mind - |
| soldiers p70 and 71 | -consequences similar: soldiers have little knowledge and only given info to follow orders -manners (the way you act) before morals |
| p77 | masculine for woman to be melancholy |
| nature vs artifist | put on a front to who you really are to get a mate vs being who you are |
| William Wordsworth | P 112-129 -revolution in style -sublime, picturesque -nature poet -open verse and poem |
| Lyrical Ballads | -1st copy was annonymous - |
| preface purpose | -nature -experiment rather than truth -reasoning -realistic pictures such as speakng of the poor -participating in asthetic trend -low and rustic life was cherished |
| poetry is overflow of beautiful feelings and spontaneous but | -you have thot |
| p125 he is a poet w/ capital P | -capable of moving us and changing the way we see things |
| "we are 7" | -about death from chld's perspective -child was saying there were still 7 of them even tho the others died -she gets last word in |
| "lines written a few miles above tintern abbey" On revisiting the banks of the wye during a tour, july 13, 1798 | -he has visited b4 with others and is now coming back -talks about power of nature -3 yrs after sedition and treason act and was put on survelence watch -hedro with smoke coming under doors |
| tinter abbey | -5 long winters -now in lonely rooms he remembers this location -beautiful memory that would make you have better day after had bad day -past remembering what looked like, present, and future -thnks& contemplates it -it's not just my memory, but anot |
| sublime | dark fear with borderline, thrill or emotional response, the most powerful thing we can feel -evoke strong emotions -eg of mountain: edgy, steep, awe inspiring, rough, drastic, -make us feel humbled and small |
| Burke | -in contrast to sublime beautiful should be smooth and polished, light and delicate - |
| ideas in Blake that relate to sublime | "chimney sweeper" darkness -black and white cannot mix: pictures of darkness -terror during work |
| expectation of the gothic: | k |
| Turner, "Snowstorm: Hannibal and his army crossing the alps | -1812 -sublime moment b/c nate taking over, can hardly see the alps |
| John Martin "The Bard" | -1817 -sublime, terror -mimicing the welsch -nature, rugged, steep compared to the ppl |
| 9/9/11 "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere," in 7 Parts | -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817 - |
| Burke, Edmund. "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful." | -1757 |
| sublime | an internal response (pain, danger, terror) -strongest emotion mind is capable of feeling |
| imagination | representative of the senses |
| darkness | sublime, greater effect on passions |
| architecture | advocates controls of light/dark to highlight grandeur |
| in nature- | storms, mountains (such as the alps) |
| soft colors | cannot produce grand images; cloudy instead of blue, night instead of day |
| beauty | in distress is the most affecting beauty (women) |
| Gothic as a time prd | medieval and Germanic |
| Gothic as literary form | at its height from 1764-1840 -in 18th centurey, supernatualism in Gothic literature critiqued 18th century naturalism |
| General expectations of Gothic lit. | -supernatural element e.g. frankenstein -suspense and terror -villain, heroine -psychic or social decay -setting is extremely important -often reflects a need to confront the unexplained, snesational |
| Gothic lit | -appearance of the supernatural |
| -lethal predicaments, extraordinary positions (death by falling helmet) -Abeyance of rationality reason dsnt work -Ubiquity of evil -emotional extremes - | |
| -Claustrophobic containment; physical and/or psychological enclosure -subterraneous pursuit -inorganic sentience (paintings have eyes, etc) | |
| "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" form | -narrative Poem (double narrative; ballad stanze (variations) -double narrative w/wedding going on and his story |
| excerpts from Gustave Dore's 1870 illustrations to the poem | k |
| why did he chose that specific wedding guest? | k |
| Mariner is not happy, but why? | k |
| setting | -icebergs made noise but no signs of life - |
| why were they excited to see Albatross | -something can survive out here somewhere -luck |
| what happens when he kills the Albatross? | -at 1st others thot it was good luck b/c weather chngd, then thot bad luck b/c weather changed to doing nothing |
| line 143-161 terror when think see ship moving but realize no ship could be coming b/c no wind | it's the skeleton of ship |
| shipmates | -kinda die with slimy stuff coming out -200 ppl all looking at him dead, and he cannot die -line 250 |
| religious imagery | p. 187 bird around his neck -prayed and the bird sank like lead -spell begins to break -able to drink and be refreshed but curse not entirely lifted |
| p188 they came up and helped steer the ship, the brothers son, "the body", dead | k |
| 345 wedding guest fears what's about to happen | - |
| 400 cross and penance | -cruel words b/c still paying for the bad he did, so curse not completely lifted |
| pilate or harbor ship | small boat comes to help captain of ship to navigate |
| ship flew 460 | - |
| shipmates dead | k |
| hermit | k |
| ship sank | -pilot in a fit -hermit prays |
| 574-590 telling his tale | -torturous -cursed b/c disrespect for nature with no intent or purpose for killing it, not even for food - |
| walk together to church but mariner not going into wedding 610-625 | -b/c he has to go tell his story |
| end is not pretty, why is wedding guest sad | -gains wisdom now and will tell others about the story -question the world as he knew it -ignorance is bliss |
| Sir walter scott | -needed money so would play the market and just add new things to his previous works such as preface -popular -Melrose, Scotland -midevil gothic architecture house, even tho it was during 19th century |
| how commercial was he willing to go? | his house was like the writings. it was like you were in them when you went in his house -christmas market, books were meant to be seen |
| intro of "My Aunt Margaret's Mirror" | using storytelling to get himself out of the engraving, saying it started out in his childhood from lady Swinton -lady swinton says she heard story from someone else and they heard it from Margaret -so the story is suspect from the get go |
| nature moments | -going thru paths -nature to say what happened thru life -pool-pulling brother out of stream then he fought and died -representing memory and loss |
| why does aunt margaret like to tell these stories? | -supernatural soothes her imagination, soothes her imagination -death, looking back |
| who died from terror and why? | Lady Forester b/c sees husband marry someone else; thought he died but ended up being brother killed in dual |
| terror's role | -soothing and healthy and leading to death |
| mirror in dark room only lit by candle | k |
| Lady Bothwell asks direct question of where Forester will be going, how long gone, what route | k |
| brother and Phillip had words about what? | -you are not treating my sister right, so they were worried something may happen to one of them |
| how did lady forester start feeling about her husband? | psychological decay -she seems to b loving him again "absence makes heart grow strngr" -then he is so thotless, not writing letters -he's so galant gay -destressed cause don't know where he is -creditors knocking at door saying he needs to pay his d |
| Dr. gets chased out of town -italians portrayed as mysterious and bad guys in gothic lit | k |
| ladies are aware of their rep so what do they do? | -disguise themselves by dressing down -he knew who they were |
| setting | -nothing peculiar in italians appearance: handsome and dressed as a dr -dark house -twilight -strange music but ends up being harmonica not some creature |
| how does bothwell reason away images in mirror? | -that he heard info from another - |
| where has sir phillip been? | -gambling not making name for self in war |
| how does forester react to news in the mirror? | lady forester never recovers and she dies |
| how does scott tie story up? | sir phillip sends someone after her for forgiveness and he ends up being that person - |
| how do we know sir phillip is not frail? | she says murderer and he runs and jumps off rail to get away |
| how he dies? | goes over to another continent and dies |
| no moral, pure entertainment | may not have others, but had scott |
| Byron quotes | Catherine-"mad, bad and dangerous to know." "dont look at him, he's dangerous to look at" |
| Byron | -1st celebrity poet -ppl would sworm to see him -mothers and fathers would keep their daughters away from his seducing acts -oscar synopsis -dies at 36 fighting help Greeks win independence -not only spoke but also fought for beliefs of love and righ |
| Don Juan | the perfect lover -took this myth and reworks it |
| "when a man hath no freedom to fight for at home" | -fight for a cause you believe in -has hope within the darkness, sarcastic -not just writing, but living it |
| "so, we'll go no more a roving" | -sheath-vagina -roving-sex -it was good while it lasted -blunt sexuality |
| "She walks in beauty" | -she was wearing dark dress -loving and respect for her and her beauty -complimentary of her -in peace |
| "When we two parted" | -he is longing for her butt -feels guilty -why didn't you go that step with me -why did i value you -"i rue you" is not complimentary |
| "Prometheus" | -stole fire from heaven |
| "Darkness" | -last man, apocoliptic theme -what happens when darkness falls on man -mankind forgot their passions and hearts for light -darkness took over the world |
| "when a man hath no freedom to fight for at home" | -fight for a cause you believe in -has hope within the darkness, sarcastic -not just writing, but living it |
| "so, we'll go no more a roving" | -sheath-vagina -roving-sex -it was good while it lasted -blunt sexuality |
| "She walks in beauty" | -she was wearing dark dress -loving and respect for her and her beauty -complimentary of her -in peace |
| "When we two parted" | -he is longing for her butt -feels guilty -why didn't you go that step with me -why did i value you -"i rue you" is not complimentary |
| "Prometheus" | -stole fire from heaven |
| "Darkness" | -last man, apocoliptic theme -what happens when darkness falls on man -mankind forgot their passions and hearts for light -darkness took over the world |
| "Don Juan" | -tries to discover himself -dedication for Robert Sevy-well known poet that speaks for them -i wish someone would explain coleridge -called robert bob, an insult -george and gluton and partier -wordsworth is not really poetry -tower of babel- -bob- |
| "Canto" |
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