5Aa - The romantic period

The romantic period
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The romantic period

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

Which sonnet does Shakespeare often use?
A
Italian sonnet
B
Petrarch sonnet
C
English sonnet
D
French sonnet

Slide 2 - Quizvraag

Which motto embodies the Renaissance?
A
momento mori
B
carpe diem
C
Dum spiro spero
D
Veni vidi vici

Slide 3 - Quizvraag

How did humanism affect the arts?
A
It shifted focus towards godly creatures
B
It make people realise the cruelties of the past
C
Nature started playing a big role in literature
D
human desires became more prominent in poetry

Slide 4 - Quizvraag

What are themes often used in the renaissance
A
nature, feelings
B
love, beauty
C
loyalty, honour
D
human desires

Slide 5 - Quizvraag

The world has to answer for the monstrosities of men
A
metaphor
B
simile
C
personification
D
alliteration

Slide 6 - Quizvraag

Your sonnets
Let's listen to your creative writing

Slide 7 - Tekstslide

Romanticism  - 1789-1848
“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.” (Keats)

Slide 8 - Tekstslide

The Nineteenth Century
  • Late 18th/early 19th century: great changes!

  • Society - industrial cities; poverty among workers
  • Nature - large-scale environmental pollution
  • Great changes outside Britain:

Slide 9 - Tekstslide

The Nineteenth Century
  • 1776 Declaration of Indepence
  • French Revolution (1789)
  • Inspiration for many British intellectuals (liberty, equality, fraternity)
  • Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
  • Gave rise to great patriotism
  • Trafalgar: French navy defeated - Lord Nelson
  • Waterloo: Napoleon defeated - Duke of Wellington

Slide 10 - Tekstslide

Characteristics Romanticism
  1. individual, personal
  2. feeling / Imagination
  3. common life
  4. spontaneity
  5. ordinary language
  6. pleasure
  7. nature as background and inspiration

Slide 11 - Tekstslide

Romantic themes in art/literature
  • liberty  
  • nature  
  • the exotic  
  • the supernatural  
  • creative process / imagination 

Slide 12 - Tekstslide

Romantic period
beauty and value of nature
distant and exotic cultures
innocence of children
The supernatural
God as the centre
Scientific knowledge
Clasical influences
Feelings
courtly love

Slide 13 - Sleepvraag

The Romantic Period
  • the beauty and value of nature
  • idealization of the countryside and country people
  • the (idealized) past
  • distant and exotic cultures
  • children (innocent, not yet corrupted by the world)
  • the supernatural

Slide 14 - Tekstslide

How does a Romantic poet write?
  • Poet’s own feelings important (personal, subjective, individual)  
  •  Poem is composed spontaneously cf. Wordsworth: poetry is “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, taking its origin in emotion recollected in tranquility.”  
  • Keywords: inspiration, imagination, originality 

Slide 15 - Tekstslide

Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes
Can judge of love, thou feel’st a lover’s case;
I read it in thy looks; thy languished grace
To me, that feel the like, thy state descries
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
poem 1
Poem 2
Romantic
Renaissance

Slide 16 - Sleepvraag

Romanticism: Friendship instead of social status 
  • The most important form of loyalty was friendship (you choose friends based on same character)
  • Choice of friends/partners became important vs  Social status obtained through friends/partners



Freedom of choice was also freedom to reject a partner. Not everyone could handle rejection

Slide 17 - Tekstslide

William Blake (1757 – 1827) 
  • Poet, painter, illustrator during the Romantic period
  • Famous for his expressiveness and creativity, 
  • Philosophical and mystical undercurrents in his work
  •  Hostile to the Church of England  (to almost all forms of organised religion) but reverent of the Bible
  • Influenced by the ideals & ambitions of the French and American Revolutions
  • His poetry rebels against the abuse of class power 
  • Famous work:  Songs of Innocence and  of Experience (1794)
  • Imagination is the most important element of human existence
  • He experienced visions of beautiful religious themes and imagery
  •  Believed in racial and sexual equality. Several poems and paintings express universal humanity:                                                         "As all men are alike (tho' infinitely various)".

Slide 18 - Tekstslide