ELIT 511 The Romantic Period 2012-2013 Fall Semester Assist Prof Dr Nurten Birlik This course will be an advanced introduction to radical innovations in literature of the Romantic Period. After close analysis of the social‚ political and philosophical context of the period with special emphasis on French Revolution and the ideas of Burke‚ Paine‚ Rousseau and Kant‚ the course will mainly highlight six major poets of the period. These poets’ relation to their predecessors‚ particularly to Augustan
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Keats’s treatment of nature in ‘Ode To Autumn’. The Striking Beauty of Autumn This poem was written by Keats in September‚ 1819. He was greatly struck by the beauty of the season. The air was fine‚ and there was a temperate sharpness about it. The weather seemed “chaste”. The stubble-fields looked better than they did in spring. Keats was so impressed by the beauty of the weather that he recorded his mood in the form of this ode. The Progress of Thought and Feeling in the Poem Here is
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1 Annexure ‘I’ M.A. English Part-I & II The Appendix ‘A’ (Outlines of Tests) and Appendix ‘B’ (Syllabi & Courses of Reading for M.A. English Part-I and Part-II shall be effective from the Session 2002-2003. The class admitted in the year 2002 will take their M.A. English Part-I Examination of 2003 according to new syllabus in the year 2003: - M.A. (English) Part I Examination of 2003 Appendix ‘A’ (Outlines of Tests) Marks Paper I (Classical Poetry) Paper II (Drama) Paper III (Novel) Paper
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Along with those who have created such big works there are those who have influenced British literature. Keats being one of the authors who had such an influence. Although Keats work was in publication for four years before his death his works influenced others to write such as he did. His works were first looked down upon and were criticized for being strange but now they are what influenced others to write. During that time period more and more romantic writers began to emerge. Another writer
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the human race’s desire for peace through death. Many versions of Ophelia through the depiction of paint can be viewed online. The Art Renewal Center Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art show great representations. John Everett Millais‚ Eugene Delacroix‚ Alexandre Cabanel‚ John William Waterhouse whose works
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To acquaint ourselves with the spirit of Romanticism in England in the Nineteenth century we may turn to the prose works of the period along side the famous poetry of the age. The impetus gained by English prose in the Eighteenth century continued in this century‚ but with a distinct change in subject and tone. Unlike the coffee-table essays of the previous century‚ the form of essay that became popular in this age was the personal essay. This form was honed by the personal genius of Charles Lamb
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3. CRITICAL APPRECIATION Its Faultless Construction This is the most faultless of Keats’s odes in point of construction. The first stanza gives us the bounty of Autumn‚ the second describes the occupations of the season‚ and the last dwells upon its sounds. Indeed‚ the poem is a complete and concrete picture of Autumn‚ “the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”. Its Sensuousness The bounty of Autumn has been described with all its sensuous appeal. The vines suggesting grapes‚ the apples‚ the
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Lord Alfred Tennyson‚ a consummate poetic artist‚ consolidated and refined the tradition bequeathed to him by his predecessors in the Romantic Movement (especially Wordsworth‚ Byron‚ Keats‚ Shelley). Beginning in the after math of Romantic Movement‚ Tennyson’s development as a poet is a romantic progression from introverted and inert states of mind towards emancipated consciousness. The growth of consciousness‚ and the relationship between the self and the world beyond‚ are fundamental concerns
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reach his goals and desires. Although both poems reflect upon life and death Keats’s and Longfellow’s work both embody different perspectives on what’s truly left to live for. Both poems open in a similar manner‚ realizing the inevitability of death. Keats fears that he “may cease to be” similarity Longfellow realizes that half his “life is gone”. But after the openings‚ both poems break off into the two very different perspectives of death.
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Essay Two In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein‚ one of the major themes is the idea that the monster is a representation of the monster within all of us. Also‚ that the romantic age‚ which was prominent during the time in which Shelley was writing‚ was one of the conflicting mindsets that led to Victor Frankenstein’s manipulating and controlling nature‚ which throws him out of his mind and down a destructive path towards the creation of the monster. In The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein‚ Peter Ackroyd
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