ROMANTICISM VICTORIANISM

What?  European literary and artistic movements in

specific historical eras.
When? 1770s to the 1830s- 18th 1837 to 1901 - 19th
Century Century
Why? Reactions to cultural changes.
- a reaction against the Industrial - a reaction against increased
Revolution
economic inequality 

- as urbanisation was rapid, individuals - writers were writing to expose poverty

were more expressive of nature
horrors
- to reclaim a “threatened” life

Ideology deep belief in the power depicted the world as

of nature dark and disturbed
- to overcome the - had little faith in nature
corrupting world and the world as a whole
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Literature Emotion
(Language) - joy, sadness and excitement
- portrays positivity
- emotionally expressive
- uses metaphors and imagery
- often uses phrases such as
“Oh!”
- reference to nature
Restraint
- ironic, sarcastic
- portrays cynicism
- less use of flowery
language, metaphors and
images
- modern language
- horrors of the world
Who was Lord Alfred Tennyson?

He was a British poet of the Victorian Era.