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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION - Coggle Diagram

- - - - NATURE, no longer only a setting, it gives joy to the men ( > Rousseau)
      - INDIVIDUALISM: the artist is no longer interested to the society but he is happy with himself
      - IMMAGINATION, the most important human faculty
      - IDEA OF REBELLION, the artists feel like a "titanic hero"
      - REVALUTATION OF THE MIDDLE AGES
      - TASTE FOR THE EXOTIC AND SUPERNATURAL
  - - - WORDSWORTH
        
        object of poetry: commonn life to make it interesting by tracing the primary laws of nature in it
        
        lenguage of poetry: simple and unelaborated
        
        who is a poet: a man speakinf to men, but with a special faculty: the sensibility. He has to teach to other men with his feelings
        
        what is poetry: a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
        
        pantheistic view of nature: nature brings joy and love, with this we can be in touch with God
        
        sense: with the sense we create simple ideas that we develop as complex ideas. Memory is a major force in this proccess
        
        HIS POEMS
        
        COMPOSED UPON WESTMINISTER BRIDGE
        
        MY HEART LEAPS UP
        
        I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD(<preface to lyrical ballad)
- - - - capitalism gave power to buisness owners ==> it made some individual richer than others
        
        governators didn't have the control on buisnesses
        
        THIS LED TO EXPLOITATION : it meand not treating well the workers
        
        BLAKE TALKS ABOUT THIS SOCIAL PROBLEMS
        
        CHIMNEY SWEEPERS = exploitation of children
        
        he talks about this problem in
        
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        he also talks about LODON
        
        Blake is wandering in the streets of London and he realize that everything turns around money. The poet sees in the face of the people he meet pain (this happens in the first two stanzas). The most important line is the last line of the second stanzas where he concentrate on the suffering of the men with a metaphore. He says that the men conditon is similar to manecles.
        
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        WHO IS BLAKE?
        
        A SOCIAL REFORMER
        
        PRE-ROMANTIC (ALSO A ENLIGHTENED MAN)
        
        AN ARTIST AT 360 DEGREES, HE LIKED TO PAINT THE EMOTIONS TRASMITTED IN HIS POEMS
    - - modern society is based on the buying and selling of goods and services
    - - roads, canals, roadways were dramatically changed in Britain ==> long distances were covered
  - - - THE ROYAL SOCIETY NO LONGER DOMINATED : THE BORGEOISIE
        
        THE URBAN SOCIETY STARTED TO APPEAR
        
        BUT THERE WAS A BIG PROBLEM WITH THE PROLETARIANS : IN THE FACTORIES THEY WORKED WITHOUT RIGHTS
        
        UNIONS WERE CREATED to fight for their rights
    - - people moved from countryside to towns
        
        TOWNS BECAMED CROWDWD AND UNSANITARY
    - - THEY STARTED TO ASK FOR THEIR RIGHTS, they were trated in a different in comparison to men
        
        FEMINIST MOVEMNT BORN
- - - - THIS PROVIDED ACCES TO CHEAP RAW MATIERIALS (row cotton, coal and iron)
        
        GENREAL WELL BEING (enough food, economic and profitable activities)
        
        THE POPULATION INCREASED SO THE DEMAND ON FOOD AND CLOTHES INCREADES
        
        IT WAS NEEDED A FASTER AND CHEAPIER WAY TO PRODUCE = FACTORIES
  - - - FROM THE 16TH CENTURY, LANDOWNERS STARTED TURNING OPEN FIELDS INTO ENCLOSED PADDOCKS, ASSIGNED TO A SINGLE FARM.
        
        PEASENTS WERE NO ONGER ABLE TO FARM
        
        WORKED AS HIERED LABOUR
        
        SEEK EMPLOYMENT IN TOWN