Categorii: Tot - innocence - nature - romanticism - imagination

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Romanticism

Romanticism emerged as a reaction to the Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions, as well as the Napoleonic and French Revolutions, which significantly altered societal structures and deepened the gap between rich and poor.

Romanticism

Romanticism

KEY WORDS

CHILDHOOD

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

RETURN TO MIDDLE AGE
ROLE OF THE POET
guide
prophet
seer
EMOCTION
look inward own soul
IMAGINATION
RETURN TO NATURE
Reality:rational and materialistic
Means to tell with God

in Literature

1st generation
Coleridge
Wordsworth

We are seven

Romantics themes

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

theme of death

the little girl lost her two brothers

country side

ballad form

1. METRIC PATTERN: Iambic tetrameter
2. RYME SCHEME: abab
3. ORDINARY MAN'S LANGUAGE
4.DIALOGUE between narrator and little girl
5.FIGURE OF SPEACH: (assonance , allitteration, repetition of the same words\ questions)

Blake

-PRE-ROMANTIC POET
-ENGRAVER
- CHRISTIAN

songs of experience

experience: disillusionment, corruption of innocence
limits of freedom: society, institution

The Tyger

1.STRUCTURE: 4 stanzas in quatrains
2. 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 ferocity
4. THEME : creation--> GOD= BLACKSMITH
=created both
tyger and lamb
5. SETTING: industrial city
6. 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

songs of innocence

innocence: state of freedom, happyness
childhood: pure, uncorrupted, naive

The Lamb

1. STRUCTURE: 2 stanzas
2. RYME: musicality --> figure of speach (allitteration, assonance, personification)
3. LANGUAGE: simple
4.SYMBOLS: lamb -->innocence, Cristo
5. THEME: creation
6. SETTING: country side ( vs industrial landscape of city side)
7.SPEAKER: poet=child
8.QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
9. RELEVACE TO ROMANTICISM:
-innocence of childhood (1st stanza)
-Lamb: idylliac creature--> sense of beauty

XIX CENTURY

causes

Industrial Revolution
gap between rich and poor
mechanization of producion
growth of city
Napoleonic wars
Agricultural Revolution
French Revolution

in Europe

Italy
Manzoni
Leopardi
Foscolo
France
Rousseau

Natural state of man

Germany
Sturm und drang