William Wordsworth’s poetry embodies the spiritual focus of romantics and their refusal to conform to the literary traditions of the age of reason. The modern “rational” world which Wordsworth came from was becoming increasingly polluted and destructive. It prohibited the imaginative escape of authors and so people like Wordsworth found solace and escape in what was left of nature and their own imaginative poems. Poems like “Strange Fits of Passion have I Known” and “the Solitary reaper” illustrate
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nature. The sea is the embodiment of nature here‚ and is presented in great contrast to the artificiality of urban life. As a Romantic‚ Keats was inclined to reject the new realities of the Industrial Revolution and the monotonous drudgery of life in the cities‚ preferring to seek solitude for his thoughts in the natural beauty of wild‚ remote landscapes. This rebellious‚ Romantic spirit in Keats is reflected in his contempt for the “uproar rude” and “cloying melody” that are the vulgar sounds of modern
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Romantic Dates: 1800-1900 1. What was going on historically during this era? What was life like? Profound Political and Social changes going on; many moving into cities for work. Renewed interested in expressing emotion through music. 2. Does romantic music continue to use the same forms used in the classical era? No 3. Explain the Individuality of style. Composers wanted their music to be uniquely identifiable to them. They worked hard on self-expression. 4. What are the expressive aims
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Kevin Thomas Poetry 4‚ March‚ 2013 Nature: Our Second Mother The poetry of the English Romantic period often contained many descriptions and ideas of nature‚ not found in most writing. The Romantic poets shared several characteristics in common‚ certainly one of the most significant of these is their respective views on nature‚ which seems to range from a more spiritual‚ if not pantheistic view‚ as seen in the works of William Wordsworth as well as Emily Dickinson. The two
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Concert Review The first song I heard is Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture‚ composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It is written at 1880‚ a romantic period music. It is a sonata allegro form‚ which consist an exposition‚ a development‚ and a recapitulation. However‚ it is hard for me to find connection between three parts when I was at the concert. Moreover‚ I did not realize there is three parts until I did the research after the concert. I was really into music and picturing the Romeo and Julia
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How is the tension between mortality and immortality conveyed in two of Keats’s poems? Keats’s poems convey an internal struggle between the preference of an authentic mortality or the artificial futile immortality. As a Romantic Poet‚ Keats elaborates on the necessity of self-expression and imagination in order to understand the power of introspection and the inner workings of the mind‚ rather than through a systematic‚ scientific process. In the Poem ‘’Ode on a Grecian Urn’’ Keats explores
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purposes‚ with the human soul and its purposes” (from notes on Wordsworth’s poetic theory) was fully expressed on his work. And as a masterpiece‚ the publication of the “Lyrical Ballads”(written by Wordsworth and Coleridge) were a clear exponent of romantic ideology of that time‚ so far to become “ one of the most transcendental and revolutionary books in the history of the English literature‚ and the symbol of the beginning of the Romanticism in England” (Baladas Liricas de Corugedo y Chamosa) Lyrical
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Every poem has a unique tone‚ form‚ and style‚ and can be defined through its genre and content. Christopher Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love is an innocent and romantic pastoral poem‚ while Sir Walter Raleigh’s The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd is more realistic and skeptical. The two poems are similar in many ways‚ including structure and meter‚ but they also have contrasting central themes. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love has several distinct characteristics. It can be primarily
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warmly at the time of its publication‚ it is now acknowledged to be one of the greatest odes written in the English language. The Poet – Background and Style The poet of this ode‚ John Keats‚ belonged to the era of Romanticism. The youngest of the Romantic poets‚ Keats occupies a unique position in English poetry as the lover and worshipper of beauty. He is a poet of sensations. ` That Keats had the healthiest of imaginations‚ balanced at last in a harmony of its own impulses is now generally and rightly
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English romanticism than Mary Shelley ’s Frankenstein. While later versions of the stories depicted a central theme of a helpless monster caught in the fears of society the actual depiction of the original work was based more closely on the English romantic that was so popular at the time. The importance of emotions and feelings were paramount during the era of English romanticism. In addition autobiographical material was extremely popular. All of these qualities were present in Mary Shelley ’s Frankenstein
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