Literature - The Made by: Ivet Girova

Romantic poets
 Romanticism
• Romanticism was a movement which started in 18th
century Europe. Writers viewed nature in a cold light
and valued reason above emotion. Romantic writers
attempted to emphasise human emotions, such as
love, joy, and sadness. Romantic works are
characterised by the glorification of the past, vivid
descriptions of the natural world and an emphasis
on nature’s role in personal growth.
Romanticism VS
Enlightenment
• Romanticism – the 18th century movement which
broke away from the ideas of the Enlightenment –
emphasised the idea of emotion. During the Age of
Enlightenment, people believed that reason and
science were the only ways to know truth. The
Romantics, however, elevated the importance of
human emotion, making romantic writing
passionate and unrestrained.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English
poet of the 18th and 19th centuries.
From a young age, he was an avid
reader, and was known for his
impressive memory and attention to
detail. Coleridge began his poetic career,
and a lot of his works relate to his
feelings about his early life. In 1797,
Coleridge became friends with William
Wordsworth, and the two sparked the
Romantic Movement.
Frost at Midnight
• In Frost at Midnight-written in 1798- Coleridge is
sitting by the fire thinking while his son, Hartley,
is sleeping nearby. The main themes of the
extract are the nature and imagination , the
children and nature and the city and the
countryside. The mood of the poem as peaceful
as there is a lot of still imagery throughout the
poem
 Lord Byron
• George Gordon Byron was an English
poet, and well-known figures of the
Romantic Movement. He settled in
England from 1811 to 1816 and became
famous for his literature and social life.
His best- known works include the
narrative poem “Don Juan” and the
short poem "She Walks in Beauty." He is
still one of the greatest British poets
and remains widely read and influential.
She Walks in
Beauty
• This poem is written in iambic tetrameter.
This means that there are four iambs in
each line. In total, each line has eight
syllables. This rhythm is one of the most
common in English poetry and was
especially popular in religious music and
poems. She Walks in Beauty was originally
intended to be set to music, which
partially explains Byron’s choice of meter.
 William Wordsworth
• William Wordsworth was an English poet from
Cumberland, Northern England. Eventually becoming
an orphan at thirteen. He received an excellent
education, but more importantly, he had the
opportunity to experience the outdoors on a regular
basis, which would later influence his writing. He
would go on to produce a variety of works, including
political poems.
Daffodils
• The last two lines of each stanza
form a rhyming couplet, so each
stanza feels independent and self-
sufficient. He wants to compare
happiness to the feeling of being
lost. He describes the daffodils as
“golden” too, not yellow. It makes
the reader think of money, but his
description suggests that what he
has seen is worth more than gold,
money or any other material
object.
 Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Percy Bysshe Shelley was a Romantic
poet from Sussex, England. He
published his first work: two Gothic
novels. After he was expelled he
continued writing and a lot of his works
dealt with the ideas of nature, politics
and injustice in society. Shelley lived an
unconventional difficult life, continually
running from people to whom he owed
significant sums of money.
Ozymandias
• Shelley's 1818 sonnet, Ozymandias, is
one of his most well-known works. In
it, the narrator describes a weathered
statue which, he is told, exists
somewhere deep in a desert, and
considers the circumstances under
which it was constructed. Ozymandias
is a sonnet that consists of an octave
and a sestet, but it does not follow the
rhyme scheme of Shakespearean
sonnets.
The Question
• A poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. It is a
sonnet that uses nature, especially
flowers and the seasons. The poem
follows all the stages of his dream, and
its ambiguity throughout raises lots of
questions for the reader, much like the
title suggests. So the feeling of
loneliness. Being a sonnet, the poem
follows a structure typical of the style.
 John Keats
• John Keats was born in Moorgate,
London in 1795. He was at first
considered "not literary", he
eventually became an avid reader
with a keen interest in literature.
Keats went on to become a quite
prolific writer. Although his works
were not critically-acclaimed in his
own lifetime, he is now considered
one of the most influential poets of
the Romantic period.
On the Sea
• Main themes are power of the
sea and the sea’s effect on
people. The poet chose to
capitalise the word “Sea” to
refer to the abstract idea of the
sea and to give it a greater
importance in the poem. Also,
Keats personifies the sea
throughout the poem so he
might be referring to it as a real
person, capitalising its name.
To Autumn
• To Autumn is a famous poems by John
Keats. It is widely considered to be an
excellent example of an ode to nature.
In his poem Keats tells us the effect it
has on nature and man. Each stanza has
own central theme that examines
various aspects of nature: growth, the
peak of that growth, decline and the
cycle of time.
 • My favorite poem is “She walks
in beauty”. We can see this love
and the feeling of the poet has
about this girl. The poet
describes the woman’s
appearance, but at the end of
the poem, he talks about her
heart. He shows that her inner
beauty is really the most
important feature and that the
My favorite way she looks on the outside is
poem just a representation of her true
beauty inside.
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