Literature 12: Romantic and Victorian period (may2011')

- strong sense of beauty & nature
- deep sympathy with obscure/humble underpriviledged ppl
- vivid imagination that can contruct dream worlds
- rebellion against tyrannical authority
- interest in ancient legends & traditions
- melancholy that comes from not being able to reach some high ideals
- great sense of individuality
- emphasis on emotion

- Had trouble with French/English war since he fell in love with Anette Vallon (french) . Made their love difficult.
- Coleridge and Wordsworth buds b/c Coleridge pushed him to get past depression and into creativity.

- Wrote "My heart leaps up when I behold", "London 1802" and "the world is too much with us"
- Prelude deals with memory and growth for him to be able to look back at his growth and triggers poetic expression. Also helps understand universal patterns of growth.

- written by William Wordsworth
- "My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky"
> loves nature; draws strength and inspirtaion from rainbow.

- Written by William Wordsworth
- "And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety."
- Wishes even in his old age, his response to nature is as intense as it is now.

- Written by William Wordsworth
- It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
> Rather be a pagan since they worship nature

- Written by William Wordsworth
- The world is too much with us; late and soon,
> The world (society and people) is too into itself and not conected enough with nature

- "The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon" - The World is Too Much with Us by William Wordsworth
- To create a mental picture in the reader's mind

- "The child is father of a man" - My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth
- early childhood often creates base for what kind of an adult they become.
- Contradictory statement that contradicts itself, yet works in context.

- "My heart leaps up" - My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth
- Unhuman things expressing humanistic characteristics

- "I love not Man the less, but Nature more"
- Shows romanticism of this poem and the author.

- "He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,
Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown"
- man not greater than nature.

- To speak to an inaminate object or something unliving.
- Ex."And I have loved thee, Ocean! " - Apostrophe to the Ocean by Byron.

- Sentence with matching grammatical structure
- Ex. "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore" - Apostrophe to the Ocean by Byron.

- A statement contradictory of its own; yet works.
"There is society where none intrudes" - Apostrophe to the Ocean by Byron.

- An un-human object or creature expressing human qualities
- Ex. "The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make" - Apostrophe to the Ocean by Byron.

- Grammatical error
- Ex. "And dashest him again to earth: --there let him lay" - Apostrophe to the Ocean by Byron.

- Format of "Faerie Queen" by Spenser
- Nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter, a single 'Alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter after.
- The rhyme scheme: ababbcbcc
- Ex. Apostrophe to the Ocean by Byron.

- To talk to something unliving
- "O Wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being" Ode to the West Wind by Byron.

- An un-human object or creature expressing human qualities
- "The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed." - Apostrophe to the Ocean by Byron.

- Repetition of vowel sounds inside words
- "where they lie cold and low," Ode to the West Wind by Byron.

- Rhyme scheme consisting of A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, D-E-D.
- Ex. Ode to the West Wind by Byron.

- Lyrical verse written to praise something
- Ex. Ode to the West Wind by Byron

- Divided into three main parts: strophe, antistrophe and epode.
- Pindaric ode (named after Greek poet) contained very grand and heroic style and tone
- Romantic poets like using this since it allowed intense and expansive personal expression.

- By Keats
- "And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,"
- shows shift from concern to losing a beloved.

- Written by Keats
- "Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink"
- Mortality makes human aspirations meaningless.

- Written by Keats
- "Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!"
- The birds voice shall be forever heard

- Written by Keats
- "With beaded bubbles winking at the brim"
- Speaker tries to rid pain through drinking

- Written by Keats
- "Away! away! for I will fly to thee"
- speaker tries to rid pain through flying away

- Written by Keats
- I have been half in love with easeful Death,
- Death something to look forward to to rid pain.

- Author's persona or attitude towards the subject.
- Ex. "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains"
- melancholy grieving tone.

- Question not needed to be answered, more of a statement.
- "Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music:—do I wake or sleep?"

- Different from Soliloquoy since it speaks to the audience or other characters.

- Written by Lord Alfred Tennyson, (victorian era, 1832-1901)
- "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
- Shows that to live one must continue to live.

-- Written by Lord Alfred Tennyson, (victorian era, 1832-1901)
- "there lies the port, the vessel puffs her sail"
- Marks major new section of poem

- Written by Coleridge
- And a good south wind sprung up behind;
The albatross did follow,
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariners' hollo!
- shows theme of great pride of mariner

- Written by Coleridge
- And every tongue, through utter drought,
Was withered at the root;
We could not speak, no more than if
We had been choked with soot.
- Shows theme of suffering

- Written by Coleridge
- And through the drifts the snowy clifts
Did send a dismal sheen:
Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken –
The ice was all between
- shows theme of isolation

- Written by Coleridge
- Ah! wel-a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the albatross
About my neck was hung
- shows theme of transformation

- Written by Coleridge
- He holds him with his glittering eye –
The wedding-guest stood still,
And listens like a three-years' child:
The mariner hath his will
- shows theme of supernatural

- Words used back in the day and not now
- "I fear thee, ancient Mariner!" - coleridge, mariner

- Feeling of the poem
- Ex. Feeling of supernatural, ghostly, mysterious in the ancient mariner.

- Predisposed events or comments that hint to future events.
- The sailors' being tapped in the disorienting "rime" foreshadows the Ancient Mariner's later imprisonment in limbo.

- Rhyme found inside a line
- "The guests are met, the feast is set" coleridge, ancient mariner

- narrative poem that mirrors old folk ballads.
- Ancient Mariner.

- Reaccurring symbol or theme like element
- The eye in the Ancient Mariner.