Romanticism

in Europe

Germany

Sturm und drang

France

Rousseau

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Natural state of man

Italy

Foscolo

Leopardi

Manzoni

causes

French Revolution

Napoleonic wars

Agricultural Revolution

Industrial Revolution

growth of city

mechanization of producion

gap between rich and poor

XIX CENTURY

in Literature

Blake

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-PRE-ROMANTIC POET-ENGRAVER- CHRISTIAN

songs of innocence

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innocence: state of freedom, happynesschildhood: pure, uncorrupted, naive

The Lamb

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1. STRUCTURE: 2 stanzas 2. RYME: musicality --> figure of speach (allitteration, assonance, personification)3. LANGUAGE: simple4.SYMBOLS: lamb -->innocence, Cristo5. THEME: creation6. SETTING: country side ( vs industrial landscape of city side)7.SPEAKER: poet=child8.QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS9. RELEVACE TO ROMANTICISM: -innocence of childhood (1st stanza) -Lamb: idylliac creature--> sense of beauty

songs of experience

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experience: disillusionment, corruption of innocencelimits of freedom: society, institution

The Tyger

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1.STRUCTURE: 4 stanzas in quatrains2. RYME: musicality --> figure of speach (allitteration, synecdoche, methaphor, repetition of the same words)3.SYMBOLS: Tyger --> experience deeps -> hell \ sky -> heaven stars --> angels ( Lucifer) fire --> divine creation and tyger's ferocity4. THEME : creation--> GOD= BLACKSMITH =created both tyger and lamb5. SETTING: industrial city6. SPEAKER: ADULT 7. QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS (obessive repetition= anxie)8. ROMANTIC THEMES: -MYTOLOGY (hammer=Thor\ wings=Icarus\ fire=Prometheus) -INNOCENCE LOST 9. EXPERIENCE: God and Evil coexist

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1st generation

Wordsworth

We are seven

ballad form

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1. METRIC PATTERN: Iambic tetrameter2. RYME SCHEME: abab3. ORDINARY MAN'S LANGUAGE4.DIALOGUE between narrator and little girl5.FIGURE OF SPEACH: (assonance , allitteration, repetition of the same words\ questions)

country side

theme of death

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the little girl lost her two brothers

Romantics themes

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1. CHILD: METAPHOR OF LOST INNOCENCE 1st stanza: retorical question--> children haven't got idea about death because irrational2. DIFFERENT PERCEPTION OF REALITY BETWEEN ADULT AND CHILD3. MIDDLE AGE4. COUNTRY SIDE : perception of beauty

Coleridge

KEY WORDS

RETURN TO NATURE

Means to tell with God

Reality:rational and materialistic

IMAGINATION

EMOCTION

look inward own soul

ROLE OF THE POET

seer

prophet

guide

RETURN TO MIDDLE AGE

CHILDHOOD

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CHILD IS SYMBOL OF INNOCENCE, PURITY.HE IS NAIVE, UNCORRUPTED