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ROMANTIC POETRY - Coggle Diagram
ROMANTIC POETRY
THE TERM
Romanticism comes from French
romance: vernacular languages derived from Latin and the works in these languages
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The Romantic imagination
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POET: a visionary prophey, a teacher mediating between MAN and NATURE to give voice to the EVILS of society and the IDEALS of freedom, beauty, truth
CHILDHOOD
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ROMANTIC AGE: the child is unspoilt by the civilisation and therefore closer to God. Childhood is a state to be admired and cultivated
THE INDIVIDUAL
AUGUSTAN AGE: a social animal in relationship with his fellows in a world governed by reason and the rules of society
ROMANTIC AGE: a 'noble savage' has an instinctive knowledge of himself, lives in a solitary state and has an impulsive behaviour
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: the conventions of civilisation are intolerable restrictions on the individual personality and produced every kind of corruption and evil
THE EXOTIC
Romantic poets venerated what is far, picturesque, but also remote and unfamiliar in space and time
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TWO GENERATIONS OF POETS
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SECOND GENERATION
(experienced political disillusionment and the clash between the ideal and the real)
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George Gordon Byron
the Byronic hero is anti-conformist, rebellious and cynic
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