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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT - Coggle Diagram
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ROMANTIC AND NEOCLASSICAL/AUGUSTAN WRITERS
THE AUGUSTAN WRITER
Resonable, calm and confident
(age of reason)
Imagination:
little significance
They satirised women and love
Interested in civilised city life.
Their literature is not personal. Focuses on the beauty.
Age of Moderation.
Aristocratic in its way of life.
The TONE of their poetry is satirical. Age of PROSE
Spirits: self-confident society, seeking in art and literarure the expressions of its ideals.
THE ROMANTIC WRITER
Irrational, dubious, sensitive and troubled
Divine presence is inferred from feeling
Attached to the imagination. Intimately connected with a special perseption or intuition.
They saw mystery everywhere (flower, tree). The sence of supernatural is always present on the poems
EMOTION
is emphasised.
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LOVE
is considered a spiritual entity, ideal and eternal, which transcends human limitations.
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NATURE
: solitary places. They enjoyed solitude and turned to comtemplation of the beauties of wild nature (Wordsworth)
FREEDOM
is found in Nature.
PANTHEISM
: divinity is Nature
INDIVIDUALISM
: Indiviualistic and private writing. Thoughts and feelings, ideas and sorrows are important
THE YEARNING FOR THE PAST
: The past stands in direct conflict with the present symbolising protest and revenge against an age of dry reasoning.
AGE OF IDEALISM
: interest of Democracy and Brotherhood. Liberty-equality-fraternity. Believed in individual liberty.
The
TONE
of their poetry: melancholic
ROMANTICISM:
Has a new and strange beauty of thought and vision
Language grows richer
Rhythms of verses and prose grow more varied to express feelings
THE LYRICAL BALLADS
The romantic period.
Poems written by
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AND SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
William Wordsworth
married Mary Hutchinson and produced
"Intimations of Immortality"
His poetry: about feelings, experiencies and his recollections in nature.
He was a metaphysical poet
Nature
: for him was a power. He had the particular vision of the world.
Interest in Childhood:
his own youth incidents he remembered. Schooldays.
His language was very simple and his style and illustrative imagery are drwn from nature.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
His poetry: Expressed the marvellous and eternal mystery of the interpretation of good and evil.
He stimulated the imagination through his imagery and his melody. The use of sound to increase emotion meaning.
He uses three basic poetic devices:
RHYME - ALLITERATION - ASSONANCE
The poems revealed a love of nature, a new reliance on intuition and imagination
The ordinary life of ordinary people rather than the deeds of heroic types
The beginning of the English Romantic movement
Wordsworth: His attitude and aims:
Choose incidents and situations from common life.
Humble and rustic life was chosen
His poetic principles:
A poet is a man speaking to men
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling. It is also, the union of deep feeling with profound thought.
Coleridge
dealt with different subjects: supernatural people and characters
Both poet enriched poetic experiencie by two methods:
Wordsworth:
looked intently at common things in life.
Coleridge'
s method began at the opposite end of human experience
THE POST-ROMANTICS
PERCY SHLLEY - JOHN KEATS & LORD BYRON
They represent a poetic generation, the second in Romanticism.
They breathe a spirit of moral revolt and criticizing the present.