Historical Context From Wu pp. 3-47 Week II: from Wu 48-101 Week III: Romanticism and Enlightenment from Day‚ pp:1-79‚ 126-183. French Revolution and Romanticism from Jarvis pp: 1-43‚ 143-172 (outside reading) Week IV: Pre-romantics: William Collins “Ode to Evening” James Thomson from “The Seasons” Thomas Gray “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” Edmund Burke‚ from Reflections on the Revolution in France and Thomas Paine from The Rights of Man (outside reading) Week V: William Blake From Songs
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sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration‚ or rather obliterates all consideration". Keats knew the only way that could write is to have imagination and art to be greater than reality. Another piece showing that Keats saw beauty in all. "Ode to Nightingale" was written to show that beauty and ugliness must be one to truly thrive (Krueger 2). Keats uses the view of a mortal seeing immortality to create an ideology. Keats was sympathetic to mankind‚ but his sympathy was filled with pain
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been / From thee‚ the pleasure of the fleeting year! / What freezings have I felt‚ what dark days seen! / What old December’s bareness everywhere!” In the second quatrain‚ however‚ he says that‚ in reality‚ the season was that of late summer or early autumn‚ when all of nature was bearing the fruits of summer’s blooming. In the third quatrain‚ he dismisses the “wanton burthen of the prime”—that is‚ the bounty of the summer—as unreal‚ as the “hope of orphans.” It could not have been fathered by summer
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JOHN KEATS‚ A THINKER IN RELATION TO THE CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF HIS VERSE ‘ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE’. THE WAY I HAVE TAKEN THIS ANSWER: Ans. “Here are sweet peas‚ on tip-toe for a flight With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white‚ And taper finger catching at all things To bind them all with tiny rings;” Keats’s attitude towards nature developed as he grew up. In the early poems‚ it was a temper of merely sensuous delight‚ an unanalyzed pleasure in the beauty of nature. “He had away”‚ says
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By: Mahnoor Haroon. Submitted to: Ma’am khadija Tahira Q: What are the elements of Romantic Poetry? Romanticism‚ a philosophical‚ literary‚ artistic and cultural era which began in the mid/late-18th century as a reaction against the prevailing Enlightenment ideals of the day. Romantics favored more natural‚ emotional and personal artistic themes. The romantics of the era were painters
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anticipation and the mystery of the antecedent forms a more vivid image. Apostrophe: Apostrophe is a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead orsomething nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and able to reply. Example: Lines 12-22‚ To Autumn by John Keats. Function:
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physicality of nature‚ but human rational and the balance of life‚ heavily influenced the writings of the Romantics. In the majority of Keats’ odes‚ he stresses upon the importance of accepting that with the good comes the bad‚ with the right comes the wrong‚ with the pain comes the joy. An example of Keats’ emphasis on coming to terms with the mixed nature of life is in “Ode on Melancholy” when he
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Compareing Shelley’s conception of nature with that of Wordsworth as expressed in the two poems “Ode to the West Wind” and “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey.” Paying special attention to the three ‘T’s: tone‚ technique‚ and theme. The two chosen pieces both have a dominant theme of nature. Shelley‚ in his poem “Ode to the West Wind‚” uses poignant tone‚ while using personification and imagery to unravel his theme of nature
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KEATS AND WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AGE OF REASON EMPIRICISM "a statement is meaningful only if it can be verified empirically (Sproul 103)." "Man was born free‚ but everywhere he is in chains" - Rousseau Rousseau (1712-1778) cried: "Let us return to nature" (Schaeffer154) Characterized by freedom of the mind and an idealistic view of human nature‚ Romanticism slowly crept out of Neoclassicism (1798-1832 ) ROMANTICISM • Rousseau saw this as dangerous to the freedom of mankind and thus sparked
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The Neolithic Age • Archeological evidence o Humanoids lived as long as 1 million years ago in Southwest China; used fire ▪ Fossils discovered in Yunnan province o Peking man (a proto-human) lived about half a million years ago in North China; used fire & primitive flaked/stone tools ▪ Fossils discovered near Beijing • Neolothic ( cultures with polished stone implements‚ pottery‚ agriculture o South China
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