VWO 5 - 31 January 2022

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Welcome!

VWO 5
31 January 2022

How did your
test week go?

What did you think of
the English test?

Today

- Term 3

-Start literature

Term 3

- Book report

- Listening test (CITO)

- Literature Alquin: The Romantic Period

What words come to mind
when you think
of the 'Romantic Period'?

The Romantic period is about romantic gestures and romance.

1. True
2. False

The Romantic Period

We focus on Britain's Romantic Period: 1798-1837

The Romantic Period was a reaction to the industrialisation of Great Britain. The invention of the steam engine sparked the industrial revolution and changed the rural culture to an urban culture. 

The Romantic Period

The Romantic Period was also influenced by the French revolution. The revolution set of a chain of new ideas and a change in attitudes; from authority to freedom.

The Romantic
poets focused on...?

Romantic beliefs 

Politically the movement was often against any form of authoritarian government.

Emotionally the movement expressed an extreme assertion of the self. The Romantics valued individual experience and the active nature of the imagination.

Socially the movement was in favour of equality and freedom. The Romantics wanted to see an end to slavery and poverty.

Key Romantic themes

• The power of the natural world, which could inspire and heal men.
  
• The relationship between man and nature.
  
• Freedom/freedom of thought.
  
• Imagination.
  
• Childhood/childhood memories.
  
• Mythology.
  
• Revolution. The Romantics wanted to fight against the control of the government.
• The exiled hero.

Poets

Important Poets: 

- William Wordsworth & S.T. Coleridge (First Romantic poets)

- P.B. Shelley, Lord Byron, John Keats (the later Romantic trio)

Prose

Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)

Brönte sisters (after period, but in mood and style)

Jane Austen (books about Age of Reason)

 

Sir Walter Scott (historical novels, Ivanhoe)

In fragmenten uit de boeken laten highlighten wat de kenmerken zijn