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The Romantic Age (1760-1837) - Coggle Diagram
The Romantic Age
(1760-1837)
The English Romantic poets are usually divided into two generation.
The Second generation:
Mary Shelley
(Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus);
Percy Shelley
(Ode to the West Wind);
Keats
(Ode on a Grecian Urn);
Byron
(Mandred or Childe Harold's Pilgrimage)
Themes
: political disillusionment, individualism, escapism, rebellion, beauty, alienation.
Language
: difficult, full of archaisms and virtuosisms.
Forms
: odes, sonnets, elegies
The First generation:
Wordsworth
and
Coleridge
(lyrical ballads)
Themes
: beauty of nature and ordinary things; visionary topics, the supernatural and mystery.
Forms
: song and ballad
Language
: easy
use of
arts
and
poetry
to give expression to emotional experience and feelings;
relationship between
man and nature
nature like a living force;
pantheistic view
the cult of the exotic
use of
immagination
ideals of freedom, beauty and truth;
Interest about the experience and insights of
childhood
and about the
individual
point out the evils of society;
concept of sublime
Social, political, historical and economic changes
History
: the America Declaration of Independance; industrial revolution (economic change and technological innovation); French Revolution and Napoleonic wars.
In contrast with the formal order and rationality of the Age of Reason, against current beliefs and customs