W6L1 Romantic Period: Blake

Good morning V6! 

English class

Mevrouw Plazier/Ms. Plazier 

What do I expect of you?

• Try to speak as much English as possible. 
• Be mindful, respectful & communicate!
• Be on time: more than 5 minutes = too late. 
• Raise your hand if you have a question and be silent during explanations of me/student. 
• Bags are on the ground, phones in your bags. 
• No eating in the classroom (gum included), drinking water is allowed. 

learning goals

I can understand the Rime of the Ancient Mariner 

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What have you understood about the Rime of the Ancient Mariner?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

(1772 – 1834)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

- Lyrical poet, critic & philosopher

- youngest son of a vicar 

- 1798: The Lyrical Ballads with Wordsworth (Lyrical Ballads set a new style by using everyday language and presenting an original way of looking at nature.)

- became addicted to opium

- After 1817: theological and politico-sociological works

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

-  form of the popular ballad/narrative poem

-  four-line stanza (although the poem also contains stanzas of six or even nine lines). 

- The metre is loose: odd lines are generally tetrametre, while even lines are generally trimetre. 

- The rhymes generally alternate in an ABAB or ABABAB scheme, though again there are many exceptions.  

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while reading/listening

What is the plot of this poem?

Which aspects of the Romantic period can you recognize in this work?

read the rest of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner

- What is the moral of the story?

- Why does the mariner go around telling his story?

- List the Romantic aspects of the story with an example where you can find it in the text.

cyclical nature of life

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cyclical nature of life

with God

Child with subconscious remembrance of life with God

corruption by society

William Wordsworth 

(1770 – 1850)

(aka my favourite poet)

William Wordsworth

- lost both his parents quite young

- walking tour of Europe --> French Revolution

-  fell in love with Annette Vallon, had a bastard daughter

- married Mary Hutchinson, had five kids of which two died.

- lost the will to write later in life

1798: The Lyrical Ballads with Coleridge (everyday language and presenting an original way of looking at nature.)

recollection in tranquillity

The idea that when you are reminded of something that happened in the past, you do not just remember the event. The emotions the event originally evoked also recur. 

Which of the two ideas is expressed in the following poems?

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homework

Choose one of the two poems we've read today and find the literary devices and sound techniques you've studied last year.

(the recap is in the shared LessonUps in case you forgot)