The Romantic age
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The Romantic Period (1789-1850)
The basic idea in Romanticism is that reason cannot explain everything.Romanticism was inspire by beauty and nature and was shame by feelings and imagination. Romantics searched for deeper, often subconscious appeals. This led the Romantics to view things with a different spin than the Enlightenment thinkers.The Romanticist emphasis on individualism and self-expression. The Industrial and political revolution were a reaction from the Romantic Age. Its effect on politics was considerable and complex; while for much of the peak Romantic period it was associated with liberalism and radicalism, its long-term effect on the growth of nationalism was probably more significant. Three big ideas in this period of time were the Stirrings of Romanticism , Nature & Imagination, The quest for Truth and Beauty. The Stirrings of Romanticism The Early romantics like William Blake value imagination and feeling over intellect and reason. He believe that creativity hold the truth of the universe instead of reason. Industrial & political Revolutions happen in the period. Nature & Imagination This was an effect of the Industrial revolution. Members of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron; Leigh Hunt; Thomas Love Peacock, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Quest of Truth and Beauty This was mainly compose of second generation romantics, Who saw beauty in exotic places and in remote times such as the middle ages. one revolutionary, romanticism values such as spiritual power of nature, the important of the imagination and the dignity of the artist, They changed our culture and the art of today. |
The Victorian period (1850-1900)
The Victorian period was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.Some scholars date the beginning of the period in terms of sensibilities and political concerns.The era was preceded by the Georgian period and followed by the Edwardian period. The later half of the Victorian age roughly coincided with the first portion of the Belle Époque era of continental Europe and the Gilded Age of the United States.Culturally there was a transition away from the rationalism of the Georgian period and toward romanticism and mysticism with regard to religion, social values, and arts. In international relations the era was a long period of peace, known as the Pax Britannica, and economic, colonial, and industrial consolidation, temporarily disrupted by the Crimean War in 1854. From the late 1850s onwards, the Whigs became the Liberals; the Tories became the Conservatives. These parties were led by many prominent statesmen including Lord Melbourne, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Derby, Lord Palmerston, William Ewart Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, and Lord Salisbury. The unsolved problems relating to Irish Home Rule played a great part in politics in the later Victorian era, particularly in view of Gladstone's determination to achieve a political settlement. Southern Ireland achieved independence in 1922. |
" The Forsaken " Annotation
by william wordsworth
Poem by William Wordsworth
"The Forsaken" The peace which other seek they find; The heaviest storms not longet last; Heaven grants even to the guiltiest mind An amnesty for what is past; When will my sentence be reversed? I only pray to know the worst; And wish as if my heart would burst. O weary struggle! silent year Tell seemingly no doubtful tale; And yet they leave it short, and fear And hopes are strong and will prevail. My calmest faith escapes not pain; And, feeling that the hope in vain, I think that he will come again. |
Poem Analysis EssayAn Analysis of William Wordsworth’s “The Forsaken”
Poems in English literature, particularly those from the Romantic Age, contain a variety of heavily-used rhetorical devices in order to convey the meaning intended by the author. In Wordsworth’s “The Forsaken,” for instance, the reader finds a number of devices that aid in conveying the tone and, ultimately, the theme of this poem. Concepts such as Forgiveness, Pardon, hope, pervade the poem in the poet’s attempt to convey the theme that even the Forsaken can be forgiven. To begin to understand a poem, one must deal with the basics. These involve knowing general information about the speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, and subject. The speaker of “The Forsaken” reveals himself (or herself) to be a person, who's gone through a lot. asks for forgiveness. The occasion is unknown, and the time is unknown. The speaker’s audience is himself & a celestial body and his/her purpose involves asking for forgiveness. A man who seeks peace acts as the subject of the poem. To paraphrase the events of the poem, one might say that this man will find what he is looking for. In terms of tone, the poem begins with a despair mood or atmosphere but ends up positive and hopeful. Some diction that suggests this involves the speaker first using the words “heavy storm“ and “ Guiltiest mind” but then later in the poem by employing words like “hopes are strong and will prevail” ,the speaker reveals a more hopeful tone by the end. This suggests that he will find relief and pardon. The speaker’s attitude also becomes apparent in the poem. The speaker’s tone first reveals a guilty and troublesome attitude with the use of the word “heavy storm,” but his/her attitude becomes hopeful with the use of diction like “calmness faith.” The three most significant rhetorical devices that the poet uses to convey the theme in the poem involve the use of allusion, personification, and hyperbole . The poet uses allusion to help the reader get a sense that a celestial body will come with words and phrases like “he will come again.” S/he also uses personification as a way of giving human qualities to faith , hope , specifically with phrases like “calmness faith” and “hopes are strong,” Finally, the poet uses hyperbole to give deeper meaning to the poem by exaggerating expressions . Thus, the devices used by the author give the reader a deeper sense of what's being exaggerated. Essentially, this poem is about the forsaken finding forgiveness. To create this meaning, the author uses numerous devices of rhetoric and the effects of tone to create an atmosphere that changes from guilty to hopeful. As a result, we can see how the use of rhetorical devices and tone give meaning to poetry and other forms of literature. |
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original poem
Within
"I feel it in my head, as if I was possessed. It wants to come out in the open, as I stand here, hopeless. Crawling in my brain, Inhumane. Its dark and evil, primeval. Bittersweet as a grape, I feel it as I start to change. This is an unbearable pain, I feel constrain. This evil is perdurable, something I cannot disable. knocking in my soul, not knowing whether to feel afraid of extol. Let me live!, Let me live without this inside. I've tried to be good, but I don't Know if I should. I want to be pure, white as a dove, but this is something i cannot dispose of... I guess I’m stuck with it. Feeling darkness within.” |
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