The Romantic Period

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The Romantic Period

• Nature works of art constructed by a divine
  imagination
• Symbolism used extensively as human correlations
  of natures emblematic language
• Emotion internalized the individuality of
  experience
• Romantic Hero individual, unique, antagonist

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William Blake Isaac Newton
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Nature

• Works of art constructed by the divine
  imagination
• Source of subject and image
• Im truly sorry mans dominion has broken
  natures social union To A Mouse
• A refuge of the artificial constructs of
  civilization including artificial language
• little lamb who made thee, dost thou know who
  made thee The Lamb

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Nature Continued

• Organic, not mechanical as juxtaposed with the
  industrial revolution
• I was angry with my friend, I told my wrath, my
  wrath did end. A Poison Tree
• Viewed in conflict with human manipulation
• the best laid schemes of mice and men go often
  askew To A mouse

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John Martin The Great Day Of His Wrath
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Symbolism

• Used extensively
• Till it bore an apple bright A Poison Tree
• Describes the inexpressible, infinite
• in what distant deeps or skies burnt the fire of
  thine eyes The Tiger
• Human correlation
• little we see in Nature that is ours The World
  Is Too Much With Us

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Romantic Hero

• Individual, unique
• Antagonist as hero
• A fundamental belief in their own system from
  which to live
• Everyday people in exotic places

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Examples of the Byronic Hero

• Jack Bauer- 24
• Tupac
• Jim Morrison

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Eugene Delacroix Massacre At Chios
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Emotion

• Wordsworth the spontaneous overflow of powerful
  feelings
• We have given our hearts away, a sorbid boon!
  This sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The
  World Is Too Much With Us
• Illuminates the world within as opposed to
  recreating the world outside
• the present only touches you, But oh! I
  backward cast my eye To A Mouse

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Casper David Friedrich Northern Sea by Moonlight
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Emotions continued

• First person lyrical poetry
• The poet as speaker
• I would be loath to run and chase you To A
  Mouse

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Industrial Revolution

• The world outside against which the Romantic
  Poets protested
• A systems approach to the external world as
  opposed to the organic qualities of nature
• Age of invention that included the steam engine
  and iron

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Watt Steam Engine
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The Iron Bridge over the River Severn The first
cast iron bridge in the world
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Derby Silk Factory First Factory in England
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The World Is Too Much With Us, by William
Wordsworth
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The World Is Too Much With Us, by William
WordsworthFormal elements
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Verbal elements

• Emotional words
• First person
• Nature
• Common language
• Symbolism

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Proteus Greek Sea God

• Is of the water
• Fluid, can take different
• forms
• Other than Zeus, considered
• the most powerful god

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Triton A merman
Half man, half fish Can blow the conch shell to
calm the sea
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Thematic elements

• Man in conflict with nature
• Deeper questions
• Organic not systematic

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

• Born 1788, became the 6th Baron of Rochdale
• Traveled in the orient from 1809-1811 and later
  England, Spain, and Albania
• Had a clubbed foot
• Probably dated his half sister
• Pro French
• Committed suicide after turning 36

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She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron
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Kurt Cobain

• Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 ? c. April
  5, 1994) was the lead singer, guitarist, and
  songwriter of the Seattle-based rock band
  Nirvana.Cobain and Nirvana helped reshape popular
  music in the 1990s. In 1991, the arrival of
  Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" marked the
  beginning of a dramatic shift of popular rock
  music away from the dominant genres of the 1980s
  (glam metal, arena rock, and dance-pop) and
  toward grunge and alternative rock. The music
  media eventually awarded the song
  "anthem-of-a-generation" status,1 and, with it,
  Cobain ascended as the reluctant "spokesman" for
  Generation X. Other hit songs written by Cobain
  include "Come as You Are", "Lithium", "In Bloom",
  "Heart-Shaped Box", "All Apologies", and "About a
  Girl".During the last years of his life, Cobain
  struggled with drug addiction and the media
  pressures surrounding him and his wife Courtney
  Love. On April 8, 1994, Cobain was found dead in
  his home. His death was ruled a suicide by
  self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. Since
  then, the circumstances surrounding his death
  have fueled much analysis and debate.

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All Apologies

• What else should I be?
• All apologies?
• What else could I say?
• Everyone is gay?
• What else could I write?
• I don't have the right?
• What else should I be?
• All apologies??
• In the sun?
• In the sun
• I feel as one?
• In the sun?
• In the sun?
• I'm married?
• Buried??