1) Poetry Response #2 due.
2) Comma/Semi-colon Worksheet - also due. Mark your own...
3) A Meditation on a Place
4) The Romantics
Most importantly, Romanticism saw a shift from faith in reason to faith in the senses, feelings, and imagination
- a shift from interest in urban society to an interest in the rural and natural;
- a shift from public, impersonal poetry to subjective poetry; and from concern with the scientific and mundane to interest in the mysterious and infinite.
- mainly they cared about the individual, intuition, and imagination.
1. Imagination and emotion are more important than reason and formal rules;
imagination is a gateway to transcendent experience and truth.
2. Along the same lines, intuition and a reliance on “natural” feelings as a guide to
conduct are valued over controlled, rationality.
3. Romantic literature tends to emphasize a love of nature, and a valuing of the common, "natural" man; Romantics idealize country life and believe that many of the ills of society are a result of urbanization.
4. Romantics were attracted to rebellion and revolution, especially concerned with
human rights, individualism, freedom from oppression;
5. There was emphasis on introspection, psychology, melancholy, and sadness. Their
art often dealt with death, transience and mankind’s feelings about these things.
The artist was an extremely individualistic creator whose creative spirit was
more important than strict adherence to formal rules and traditional procedures.
5) Tintern Abbey (Iron Maiden even filmed a video there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSZbbTjM0Es)
- Or, Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798...
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- Questions
Tomorrow: Poem Types, and a sample test...
