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    Romanticism

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    TIMELINE: ROMANTICISM 1800-1850  1749(-1832): Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born (writer).  1762: “Man was born free‚ and he is everywhere in chains.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau.  1770(-1840): Neo-Classicism  1770(-1850): William Wordsworth (writer) was born.  1770: Industrial Revolution had an influence on the Romantic period.  1785: Grim Brothers.  1789: French Revolution.  1800 Start of Romanticism  1802(-1885): Victor Hugo (writer) was born.  1802(-1870): Alexandre Duman

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    Makayla Joseph Ms. Oville English III Honors- 1st Hour December 7‚ 2012 Essays: Option 1 Romanticism Write an essay that classifies Theodore Gericault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa and William Woodsworth’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” as romantic by identifying and explaining how specific examples from both works reflect three different characteristics of the Romantic period. In class we talked about Theodore Gericault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa in reference to the

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    Concepts of Modernism

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    Modernism: * Chaotic society due to the first world war * First called ‘avant-garde’‚ artists (such as musical writers‚ artists‚ poets‚ etc.) saw themselves as alienated from the establishment and aimed to shock and challenge existing social conventions by being chaotic‚ obscure and abtract. * Modernism is a movement that breaks away from classical and traditional forms. Creating different perspectives by breaking boundaries. It’s constantly changing and breaks away from the Victorian

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    Romanticism in Literature Romanticism was arguably the largest artistic movement of the late 1700s. Its influence was felt across continents and through every artistic discipline into the mid-nineteenth century and many of its values and beliefs can still be seen in contemporary poetry. The romantic poets had high regard and appreciation of nature‚ beauty and the passive‚ female aspect of life. The six most well-known English authors are Blake‚ William Wordsworth‚ Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ Lord

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    Topic: Romanticism What are the characteristic features of poetry during the Romantic Movement?  Literary critics consider 1798‚ the year when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their "Lyrical Ballads‚" to mark the beginning of the English Romantic Movement. However‚ its actual beginnings date back to the poetry of Gray‚ Collins‚ Blake and Burns who are regaded as ’Transition Poets’ who lived and wrote at the end of the Neo-Classical Age. Critical opinion is divided as to when the Romantic Movement

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    Yeats- Byzantium

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    The poetry of William Butler Yeats deals with a variety of different themes from the political and historical to the magical and mystical. Whilst his patriotic poems are a call to arms for those like him who desired a return to the age of revolutionary heroes‚ it is Yeats’ poems that deal with myth‚ magic and symbolism that reveal the deeper side of his poetic imagination. This essay will deal with the related poems Sailing to Byzantium and its sequel of sorts Byzantium. Sailing to Byzantium is

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    Modernism

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    | Teacher Issues | Funding | Student Achievement |    Student Behaviors that Affect Achievement Chart | Conclusion | Works Cited | Rural Schools | Inner-City Schools | Private Schools | | | | STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT “When students cut [classes]‚ some just go and get high‚ others go drink‚ and others just sit there and watch them. Others go and watch TV‚ they eat‚ some sit at the bus stop… they’ll go call somebody. Anything instead of going to class” This above quote is from

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    ROMANTICISM

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    ROMANTICISM Romanticism is a movement in literature and the fine arts beginning in the early 19th century. This movement stresses personal emotion‚ free play of the imagination‚ and Love of nature. To begin with‚ this movement stresses personal emotion. Personal emotion is truly how someone feels in their own way. For example‚ this movement can relate to the play “Tartuffe” in which Orgon can’t give or receive love. That’s his personal emotion towards his family and loved ones. Secondly‚ another

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    Modernism

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    Anglo American Literature Dr. Geeti Chandra Twinkle Lal 3rd Year English Hons. Assignment 3 If Existentialism in Hamlet is plot driven‚ in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead it is language driven. Discuss. Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead was published in 1966 as a retelling of Hamlet by William Shakespeare through the eyes of two minor characters‚ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. In Hamlet‚ Ross and Guild are just stock characters who are there to provide comic relief

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    Yeats Controversy

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    Literature: William Butler YeatsIn the literary world‚ among the 20th century giants is William Butler Yeats. An Irish-born dramatist‚ poet and prose writer‚ Yeats is regarded as one of the towering giants of English-language writing for the century. Yeats‚ who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923‚ was one of those responsible for the famed Irish Literary Renaissance movement (Hallstrom). One of Yeats ’ greatest works is The Land of Heart ’s Desire‚ a magical fairy poetry that is

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