5V Romantic Literature

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English Romantic Literature

Enlightenment

Rejected the 'Dark Ages':

ignorance, superstition, religion, God

Enlightenment

Heralded the 'Modern Age':

reason, science, technology, autonomy of the individual

Enlightenment

Reason, science, technology

power [= the power to do what one wants]

gratification of one's desires

Romanticism

Romanticism

Sole focus on reason is to the detriment of our human emotions and will to greatness

Romanticism

Science and technology 

• industrialisation
• urbanisation
• depopulation of countryside
• traditional customs and ways of living
• consumerism

Romanticism

Solution:

                   to be who you really are (authenticity) and to develop     your fullest and unique potential

Romanticism

• ... the wonder and mystery of life (Nature)
• ... passion and imagination
• ... individual genius
• ... freedom from any form of restraint
  

           

Imagination

To imagine is to represent without aiming at things as they actually are. One can use imagination to represent possibilities other than the actual, to represent times other than the present, and to represent perspectives other than one’s own. Unlike perceiving and believing, imagining something does not require one to consider that something to be the case.

The Lamb

Little Lamb who made thee

         Dost thou know who made thee

Gave thee life & bid thee feed.

By the stream & o'er the mead;

Gave thee clothing of delight,

Softest clothing wooly bright;

Gave thee such a tender voice,

Making all the vales rejoice!

         Little Lamb who made thee

         Dost thou know who made thee

         Little Lamb I'll tell thee,

         Little Lamb I'll tell thee!

He is called by thy name,

For he calls himself a Lamb:

He is meek & he is mild,

He became a little child:

I a child & thou a lamb,

We are called by his name.

         Little Lamb God bless thee.

         Little Lamb God bless thee.

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,

In the forests of the night;

What immortal hand or eye,

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies.

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

On what wings dare he aspire?

What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,

Could twist the sinews of thy heart?

And when thy heart began to beat,

What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain,

In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? what dread grasp,

Dare its deadly terrors clasp!

When the stars threw down their spears

And water'd heaven with their tears:

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger Tyger burning bright,

In the forests of the night:

What immortal hand or eye,

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

London

I wander thro' each charter'd street,

Near where the charter'd Thames does flow.

And mark in every face I meet

Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every Man,

In every Infants cry of fear,

In every voice: in every ban,

The mind-forg'd manacles I hear

How the Chimney-sweepers cry

Every blackning Church appalls,

And the hapless Soldiers sigh

Runs in blood down Palace walls

But most thro' midnight streets I hear

How the youthful Harlots curse

Blasts the new-born Infants tear

And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

'chartered' = exclusief eigendomsrecht / octrooi

'to publish the banns'

parallelism

noun [ U ] LANGUAGE specialized

UK /ˈpær.ə.lelˌɪz.əm/ US /ˈper.ə.lelˌɪz.əm/

the use of matching sentence structure, phrases, or longer parts so as to balance ideas of equal importance

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The World Is Too Much with Us

Industrialisation

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Alienation

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