The Romantic Period

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Which four languages have together formed the English language?

1. Celtic, Latin, German, French
2. Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, Latin, French
3. Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Latin, French
4. Latin, Old Norse, Celtic, French

Which is an example of epic poetry?

1. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2. Doctor Faustus
3. Beowulf
4. The Canterbury Tales

Which is an example of a frame story?

1. The Canterbury Tales
2. Beowulf
3. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
4. Doctor Faustus

What makes the Canterbury Tales so unique?

1. It shows us what life, society and people were like in that time
2. It was written by ChatGPT
3. It was written by multiple people

In what way does the play Doctor Faustus fit the Renaissance time period?

1. It shows how people started to focus on life on Earth, instead of the afterlife
2. It shows how people start to move away from the idea that God is the center of life
3. It shows how critical research/science becomes more important
4. It refers to the ancient Greek and Roman times

Which time period is known for its sonnets?

1. Old English /Anglo-Saxon Period
2. Middle English Period
3. Renaissance
4. The Romantic Period

What is the main topic of Shakespeare's sonnet "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

1. how summer and the sun will never die
2. Shakepeare himself
3. the immortalization of a loved one through the poem
4. love

The Romantic Period

1740-1830

Context

•  The French Revolution (1789-1794)
  
•  The American Revolution (1765-1783)
  
•  Industrial Revolution (1760-1840)
  

Great changes in political, social, and individual thinking.

Individual freedom and responsibility are important.

Sympathy for man, especially poor, simple people, and children.

Romantic characteristics

Characteristics of Romantic literature

Reaction against ‘Age of Reason’ (rational thinking/intellect)

• Emotion valued higher than intellect
• Powerful emotions/passions
  
• Inspired by beauty of Nature
  
• Use of imagination
  
• Poet’s individual point of view
  
• Interest in little known times of the past
  
• Interest in supernatural
  
• Simple words, natural way of writing
  

1st Generation Romantic poets

 William Blake

 William Wordsworth

 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth and Coleridge): considered to be the ‘real
  

     beginning’ of romanticism.

• Wordsworth: writes in his preface that he intends to make poems
  

     about the simple things of life, presenting ordinary things in a new light.

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