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English 3 - Day 3
Romanticism - inclusion of individual
thought and feelings.
Romanticism in the 18th Century:
- interest in scenery
- emphasis on the need for spontaneity in
thought and action and in the expression of
thought.
- Poet - prophet emerged as a person
endowed with a special kind of faculty which
set him apart from his fellow men.
- Imagination became the peculiar gift of the
poet and man's important endeavor.
- Artists emphasized that sense and
emotions - not simply reason and order -
were equally important means of
understanding and experiencing the world.
- celebrated the individual imagination and
intuition in the enduring search of individual
rights and liberty.
- embraced individuality and subjectivity to
counteract the excessive insistence on
logical thought.
- Artists began exploring various emotional
and psychological states as well as moods.
Poetry - uses language to condense
experience into an intensely concentrated
package.
Elements of Poetry:
1. Rhyme - repetition of similar sounds
ex. "I think that I shall never see, A
poem as lovely as a tree."
2. Stanza - smaller unit of group of lines or a
paragraph in a poem
a. couplet - 2 lines
b. tercet - 3 lines
c. quatrain - 4 lines
d.
e. sestet - 6 lines
f. septet - 7 lines
g. octave - 8 lines
3. Tone - conveys the speaker's attitude
toward the subject
4. Imagery - the use of sensory details that
appeal to one or more of the five senses
- Figures of Speech - language that uses
words, phrases, and sentences in a non-
literal definition, but rather, in abstractions
- Symbol - word or object that has its own
meaning and represents another word.
The English Romantic Poets
- William Blake (1757-1827)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) -
frequently thought as a nature poet.
- believed that nature could elevate the
human soul and exert a positive moral
influence on human thoughts.
William Wordsworth "A Worshiper of
Nature" - held a firm faith that nature could
enlighten the kindheartedness and universal
brotherhood of human being and only
existing harmony with nature where man
could get true happiness
Lyric Poem - expresses the speaker's
emotions just like the songs of today.
- have a musical quality or a specific melody
which makes it easy to set them to music.
- comes from the ancient Greek word lyre,
referring to the instrument that often
accompanied the reading of the poems in
the Ancient world.
 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
I wandered lonely as a cloud a
That floats on high o'er vales and hills, b
When all at once I saw a crowd, a
A host, of golden daffodils; b
Beside the lake, beneath the trees, c
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. c
Continuous as the stars that shine d
And twinkle on the milky way, e
They stretched in never-ending line d
Along the margin of a bay: e
Ten thousand saw I at a glance, f
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. f
The waves beside them danced; but they g
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: h
A poet could not but be gay, g
In such a jocund company: h
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought i
What wealth the show to me had brought: i
For oft, when on my couch I lie j
In vacant or in pensive mood, k
They flash upon that inward eye j
Which is the bliss of solitude; k
And then my heart with pleasure fills, l
And dances with the daffodils. l
Analysis:
1. Paraphrase of the Poem - "With nature,
solitude can be a wonderful place."
2. Speaker - the writer himself, William
Wordsworth.
* Persona - the voice a writer creates to tell
a story.
3. Speaker's Tone - blissful; fluttering,
sprightly, sparkling, jocund, bliss, pleasure
4. Vocabulary - meanings are based on how
the words were used in the poem
- host - small group
- jocund company - a merry one
- inward eye - imagination
- living in solitude - in a blissful mood
5. Imagery - figurative language that evokes
a mental image to the reader
- "Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."
- "Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing
their hands in a sprightly dance."
6. Figures of Speech
"Continuous as the stars that shine" - simile
"I saw a crowd" - metaphor
"Ten thousand saw I at a glance" - hyperbole
"Fluttering and dancing in the breeze" -
personification
7. Symbolism
- clouds
- lake
- daffodils
8. Theme - central idea of the poem
"Nature gives joy and companion to the
lonely heart."
9. Form
- Stanza - sestet (6 lines)
- Rhythm and Meter - Iambic Tetrameter "ta-
TUM"
10. Moral - "Don't rely your happiness solely
to material things. The best things in life are
free."
Victorian Era (1820-1914) - characterized by
scientific and technical innovations of the
Industrial Revolution and of modern
nationalism.
- characterized by a class-based society, a
growing number of people able to vote, a
growing state and economy, and Britain's
status as the most powerful empire in the
world.
- a time of misery, squalor, and urban
ugliness.
- main organizing principles of the Victorian
Society: gender and class
Men Women
- physically strong - weak
- sex was central - reproduction was
central
- independent - dependent
- participated in - meant to run
politics and paid in households and
work raise families
Victorian Period of the English Literature
(1837-1901)
- coincides with the years that Queen
Victoria ruled Great Britain and its Empire.
- characterized by rapid change and
development.
- a time of contrast: prosperity-poverty,
morality-depravity, of peace-protest.
- the Golden Age of English novel
- fusion of romantic and realistic type of
writing.
- tended to come face-to-face with realism
- poetry became as prestigious as the novels
primarily because of the advancement in
literacy and publishing.
- reached a wider audience and made a mark
in terms of its distinctive qualities: quite
realistic in nature, less idealized, focused on
urban life, highly pessimistic, and undeniably
skeptic.
Sonnet - a fourteen-line poem typically
written in iambic pentameter.
- employs the use of rhyme scheme and
adheres to a structured theme.
1. Pertrarchan/Italian
- the most common type of sonnet
- has three stanzas: two quartains, and a
sestet
- follows the rhyme scheme: abba abba
cdcdcd
- named after the Italian poet, Pertrarch
2. Shakespearan/English
- has four stanzas: three quartains, and a
couplet
- follows the rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef
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Elizabeth Barret Browning (1806-1861)
- oldest of twelve children
- read Homer in Greek at age 8
- developed a lung ailment
- Her collection, Poems (1844), caught the
attention of a fellow poet Robert Browning,
whose admiring letter to her led to a lifelong
romance and marriage.
- released Sonnets from the Portuguese, a
collection of 44 love sonnets that would
become one of her seminal works and one of
the greatest sequences of sonnets in history.
- died in Florence on June 29, 1861 at the age
of 55 as one of the most beloved poets of the
Romantic Movement.
Sonnets from the Portuguese
- written between 1845-1846, and published
in 1850
- collection of forty-four love sonnets written
for her, then, future husband, Robert
Browning.
- the expression of doubt and fear of
beginning a relationship with Browning was
shown in the earlier sonnets.
- Barret Browning was able to overcome her
anxieties and eventually, took a more
accepting and passionate tone.
- she did not plan to publish the collection
due to the extremely personal content, but
changed her mind after Rober Browning
insisted, saying that they were perhaps the
best sequence of English-written sonnets
since Shakespeare's time.
- Browning disguised the title in hopes
people would believe they were translations
from foreign sonnets.
- originally called Sonnets from the Bosnian,
but changed to Portuguese after Robert's
suggestion, a stemming from his nickname
for Elizabeth: "my little Portuguese".
Sonnet 14
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say,
"I love her for her smile—her look—her way
Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes
brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day"—
For these things in themselves, Belovèd,
may
Be changed, or change for thee—and love,
so wrought.
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry:
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity
Analysis:
nought - nothing, "let it be for nothing."
certes - assurance, "and assuredly brought"
mayst - may, "Though may love on"
thee, thine, thy - thy, "thy comfort long"
wrought - shaped, "love, so shaped; may be
unshaped so."
Sonnet 43
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and
height My soul can reach, when feeling out
of sight For the ends of being and ideal
grace. I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I
love thee freely, as men strive for right. I
love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use In my
old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I
love thee with a love I seemed to lose With
my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God
choose, I shall but love thee better after
death.
Paraphrased:
"How much do I love you? I'll count all the
ways I do. I love you to the edges of my soul,
when it reaches out for the unseen goals of
eternity and oneness with God. I love you as
you need to be loved every day, whether
during the day or the evening. I love you by
my free choice, like those who choose to do
the right thing. I love you without self-regard,
like those who don’t brag about their own
accomplishments."
"I love you with the passion I used to feel for
my old sufferings, and for the religion of my
childhood. I love you with a love I thought I
had lost when I lost faith in my saints. I love
you with my every breath, smile, and tear,
and I will for the rest of my life. And if God
brings us to heaven, I’ll love you even more
in the afterlife."
Literary Modernism - a literary movement
characterized by a break from the traditional
ways of writing: a reflection of sense of the
disillusionment and fragmentation that
charaterized the early 20th century.
Imagism - concerned with creating clear
imagery using sharp language.
ex. In the Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough
Surrealism - concerned with creating
something bizarre and disjointed, but still
somehow understandable.
ex. Historic Evening
“In whatever evening, for instance, the
simple tourist retiring from our economic
horrors finds himself, the hand of a master
wakes the harpsichord of meadows; cards
are played in the depths of the pond, mirror,
evoker of queens and favourites; there are
saints, sails, and threads of harmony, and
legendary chromaticism in the sunset.”
Expressionism - concerned with embodying
meaning, rather than reality.
ex. Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp muttered in the dark
Characteristics of Postmodern Literature
1. Intertextual - acknowledging previous
literary works within another literary work.
2. Metafictional - writing about making
readers aware of the fictional nature of what
they're reading.
3. Minimalist - using characters and events
which are common and non-exceptional.
4. Maximalist - disorganized, lengthy, highly-
detailed writing.
5. Faction - mixing of actual historical events
with fictional ones.
6. Magic Realism - introducing unrealistic
events into a narrative that is otherwise
realistic.
Pastiche - taking of various ideas from
previous writings and literary styles and
pasting them together to make new styles.
Stream of conciousness - style of writing
that tries to capture the natural flow of a
character's extended thought process, often
by incorporating sensory impressions.
Invictus
William Ernest Henley - diagnosed with
tubercular arthritis, resulting in the
amputation of one of his legs at the age of 12.
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me
Black is the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
my head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
and yet the menace of the years
finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate, how
charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
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