V5 - Romanticism

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V5 

Today's plan:

Literary history: Romanticism

Poem analysis

Goals

I can identify texts from the Romantic period

I can explain and recognise elements of Romanticism in literature

 

Romanticism

ROMANTICISM?

ENLIGHTENMENT?

Romanticism  1770-1850

- Romanticism / Romantics

- Don't be fooled by the name: not just about love, love affairs

- Life philosophy influencing our thinking: It celebrates uniqueness of human beings, our emotions, feelings in a world that has increasingly become "technologised", "rationalised", "urbanised".

- Reaction to Enlightenment (emphasis on ratio) --> Romantics: emphasis on the heart, emotions, imagination

- Concerns: Industrial Revolution threatened to reduce individuals to labour resources

- Revolutions to reverse oppressive order: US Revolution 1776 (fighting the English King) / The French Revolution 1789 (beheading the aristocratic rule)

Enlightenment or Romantic Era?

(Also look at the attributes!)

Enlightenment

Romanic Era

The Lake District

Victorian Poetry

Romantic Poetry

Dramatic

Realistic

Innovations

Expressive

Science

Nature

Technology 

Emotional

In what century did Romanticism take place?

1. 17th and 18th
2. 18th and 19th
3. 18th
4. 19th

Types of romantic literature

Romantic poetry: odes, ballads, sonnets 

Elements:

celebrate the beauty and purity, but also the wildness of nature. 

Innocence of children vs. experience of adults.

Feelings / imagination / dreams 

Dark Romantic prose: The Gothic and the Surreal. 

US: Edgar Allen Poe.

Supernatural, eerie, graveyards, cold and dark houses, madness, mist, storm, lightning. Focus on dark emotions: fear, terror, mental instability.

Example Romantic Poetry

William Wordsworth, ‘My heart leaps up’. 

(https://interestingliterature.com/2018/01/the-child-is-father-of-the-man-a-short-analysis-of-william-wordsworths-my-heart-leaps-up/) 

My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began;

So is it now I am a man;

So be it when I shall grow old,

Or let me die!

The Child is father of the Man;

And I could wish my days to be

Bound each to each by natural piety.

Example Romantic Poetry

CHILDREN

O dearest, dearest boy!

 Could I but teach

the hundredth part

 Of what from thee I learn

Name elements Romantics wrote about:

8. “I wandered lonely as a cloud ” William Wordsworth

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. personification

What is NOT an important key feature of Romanticism?

1. Politics
2. Nature
3. Passion for love
4. Supernatural

Romanticism emerged as a reaction against ...

1. The nuclear arms race
2. The Cold War and Cuban Missile Crisis
3. The spread of the Black Plague
4. The Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution

Romantic Poetry Analysis

I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud (William Wordsworth)

Analyse the poem:

1. Write a summary in your own words

2. What are the main literary devices?

3. Watch out for the clever trick that ‘merges’ man and nature. Can you find it?

4. Elements that are repeated and their contribution

5. Does the poem have one central idea or is there a break, introducing something new? Where? What? How?

Watch this (see PPT on IL) step-by-step analysis (13:30 minutes)

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Dark Romanticism

Examples Gothic and surreal: Brontë

“At this moment a light gleamed on the wall…while I gazed, it glided up to the ceiling and quivered over my head. I can now conjecture readily that this streak of light was, in all likelihood, a gleam from a lantern…but then, prepared as my mind was for horror, shaken as my nerves were by agitation, I thought the swift-darting beam was a herald of some coming vision from another world. My heart beat thick—my head grew hot; a sound filled my ears, which I deemed the rushing wings; something seemed near me; I was oppressed, suffocated; endurance, broke down; I rushed to the door and shook the lock in desperate effort.”

Examples Gothic and surreal: Poe

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”

“I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. ”

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Goals

I can identify texts from the Romantic period

I can explain and recognise elements of Romanticism in literature
 

I can identify, explain and apply foreshadowing, characterisation, (un)reliable narrator, point of view, setting, atmosphere, plot structure, alliteration, repetition + figurative language (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, understatement, personification)

(if this is not true for any one of the literary terms, you have to pick a neutral or sad face)

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Next lesson:

U2L4 / Grammar review / Literary terms

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