romantics V6 HLZ

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ROMANTICISM

A LITERARY PERIOD IN ENLGISH LITERATURE STRETCHING FROM 1798-1837

Romantic

The Byronic Hero

Byronic heroes are arrogant, intelligent, educated outcasts, who somehow balance their cynicism and self-destructive tendencies with a mysterious magnetism and attraction, particularly for heroines.

The Byronic Hero

Bruce Wayne, Captain Jack Sparrow, Wolverine, Tony Stark, Professor Snape, etc are all Byronic Heroes. Explain what makes them so?

Can you identify the 9 characteristics?

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

What is the correct combination?

1. 1h; 2d; 3a; 4b; 5f; 6g; 7c; 8e; 9 i
2. 1d; 2h; 3g; 4b; 5f; 6a; 7c; 8e; 9i
3. 1h; 2d; 3g; 4b; 5f; 6a; 7c; 8e; 9i
4. 1h; 2d; 3g; 4c; 5f; 6a; 7b; 8e; 9i

The Romantic Period is first and foremost a reaction to

1. rationalism and industrialisation
2. neoclassicism
3. The enlightenment
4. Christian dogmas

What would be common feature of all these characteristics?

End of first introduction to the Romantics

Class on Wednesday: you have read p. 2 until 7 in the reader

What marked the beginning of the Romantic era in 1798?

1. A poem by William Wordsworth
2. The publication of the Lyrical Ballads
3. The French revolution
4. The Peterloo massacre

The French Revolution inspired the Romantics in its

1. emphasis on brotherhood
2. shout for freedom and rejection of authority
3. fashionable Frenchness
4. emphasis on feelings

Who is the odd one out?

1. William Wordsworth
2. John Keats
3. Lord Byron
4. Sir Walter Scott

Keats was the poet

1. of the supernatural
2. with a keen sense of social injustices
3. most taken with childhood innocense
4. drawing heavily from sensory experience

Most remarkable: as a medical apprentice he knew

1. how to take care of his brother
2. How to treat his own illness
3. He already knew he was dying when he wrote his best poems
4. He wrote about beauty when he knew he was dying

What role does beauty play in this poem?

What is the order of the poem? 

fruitfulness

harvest

dusk & empty fields

What is different about Autumn in the Ode compared to La Belle Dame