The Romanticism

What is the "Romanticism"?

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The Musts of the

Romantic Period

The Romanticism

FEELINGS

VOCABULARY

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The Romantics

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REVOLUTION

FREEDOM

DEFIANCE

PASSION

ADVENTURE

The French Revolution

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* The French masses got sick of

Louis XVI and his wife Marie-Antoinette living the high life in Versailles…so they cut of their heads. The French Revolution was the start of a whole new revolution in politics and society. Don't think the Romantics weren't influenced

by all this jazz.

The Industrial Revolution

Experimentation with poetic form

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* The Romantics weren't just innovative in terms of content; they also loved to play with style. They broke with the literary conventions that they'd inherited from their predecessors, and in turn, changed the way that poetry was written. We told you these dudes (and dudettes) were rebels.

* The rise of the machines! No, not the Terminator. When mechanized manufacturing processes transformed work and production, factories started popping up everywhere and people left the country for the city to work in them. Note to self: there's less nature in the city.

"The story of Man's scape from the shackles of

commerce and industry to the freedom of nature,

in a time when the world was becoming increasingly mechanised, the Romantics sought an intense relationship with the natural world. In so doing, they would revolutionise our

perception of life itself."

PETER ACKROYD

Sublime

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Nature

Crunchy

Adjective. Used to describe persons who have adjusted or altered their lifestyle for environmental reasons. Crunchy persons tend to be politically strongly left-leaning and may be additionally but not exclusively categorized as vegetarians, vegans, eco-tarians, conservationists, environmentalists, neo-hippies, tree huggers, nature enthusiasts, etc.

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* This one's tricky and most folks can't quite agree on what it means, but generally, we experience the sublime when we're out in nature and we're totally overwhelmed by it. Think of the feeling you might get when you saw Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, or Mount Everest for the first (or thousandth) time. This is nature at it's biggest and baddest, and when we see it, we feel a whole mess of very powerful emotions including both terror and joy.

Trees, rivers, birds, bees…the Romantics lapped it up. These guys were crunchies before crunchies came along. According to the Romantics, we simply could not be happy or whole without a connection to nature. Lots of people like to refer to the Romantics' nature as Nature with a capital N because it was more than just the grass and the oceans—it was the whole concept.

CURIOSITIES

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Sense & Sensuality

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Adapted from Performer, Culture and Literature2. The nineteen Century in Britain and America. Lingue Zanichelli.2012

TASK 1

3 Say what the key role was played

by the imagination.

A B

1 Explain the sensibility that arose around 1770

2 Complete the table.

In column A list the new interests which defines the new sensibility at the end of the 18th century.

In column B write down what they were in opposition with.

Read the text 'A new sensibility'again and and carry out the following activities.

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A Read the following poems and find features previously mentioned about Romanticism.

4 Focus on the reevaluation of childhood and point out what the child was associated with.

*Sounds, sights, smells, and textures are a hallmark of Romantic literature. These writers believed that if we just sit there (preferably under a tree) and look around, listen, and sniff the air, we'll learn a lot. Our body is a learning instrument that's just as important as our mind or "intellect." Why let it go to waste?

Do we really need to explain this one? The Romantics were really into characters who exemplified bravery, courage, and other hero-like qualities. They wrote about and cherished characters who went against the grain, who were larger than life, whose actions were bold and spectacular. Think Don Juan, Frankenstein's monster, or Prometheus, all of whom were heroes (or, in some cases, anti-heroes) that the Romantics made famous.

Heroism

Ruins and Relics of the Ancient Past

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I WONDERED AS A LONELY CLOUD

I WANDERED lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o’er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed–and gazed–but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

William Wordsworth

DUTY SURVIVING SELF-LOVE

Unchanged within, to see all changed without,

Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt.

Yet why at others’ Wanings should’st thou fret ?

Then only might’st thou feel a just regret,

Hadst thou withheld thy love or hid thy light

In selfish forethought of neglect and slight.

O wiselier then, from feeble yearnings freed,

While, and on whom, thou may’st–shine on ! nor heed

Whether the object by reflected light

Return thy radiance or absorb it quite :

And tho’ thou notest from thy safe recess

Old Friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air,

Love them for what they are ; nor love them less,

Because to thee they are not what they were.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

LONDON

I wander through each chartered street,

Near where the chartered Thames does flow,

A mark in every face I meet,

Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every man,

In every infant’s cry of fear,

In every voice, in every ban,

The mind-forged manacles I hear:

How the chimney-sweeper’s cry

Every blackening church appals,

And the hapless soldier’s sigh

Runs in blood down palace-walls.

But most, through midnight streets I hear

How the youthful harlot’s curse

Blasts the new-born infant’s tear,

And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.

William Blake

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Emotion

*The Romantics didn't like conventions. They rebelled against literary conventions, they rebelled against political conventions, and they rebelled against social conventions. They believed that we should first and foremost be true to ourselves, which means not going along with the herd.

Rebellion

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We can't help the way we feel, and the Romantics would say that we shouldn't try to. Let's just let ourselves be washed over by emotions. That's what being human is all about, isn't it? And if we're super clever, we'll write poems about our feelings. That's what the Romantics did, anyway.

*The Romantics didn't like conventions. They rebelled against literary conventions, they rebelled against political conventions, and they rebelled against social conventions. They believed that we should first and foremost be true to ourselves, which means not going along with the herd.

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The Age of the Reason

*European politics, philosophy, science and

communications were radically reoriented during the course of the “long 18th century” (1685-1815)

*Enlightenment thinkers in Britain, in France and throughout

Europe questioned traditional authority and embraced the

notion that humanity could be improved through rational

change.

*The American and French Revolutions were directly

inspired by Enlightenment ideals and respectively marked

the peak of its influence and the beginning of its decline.

The Enlightenment ultimately gave way to

19th-century Romanticism.

Romanticism

vs

Neoclassicism

Passion and motions Progress and reason

Nature Man

Spiritual Material

Hero dominated Hero in search of

by morals absolute

Interpretation of Detached observation

of Nature (intuition) of Nature (laboratory)

Idealism Pragmatism

Middle Ages Greece and Rome

Social Justice Science

• The universe is an organism, whose soul is God. There is divinity in all things. Everything that lives is holy.
• The universe is a machine. God made it and withdrew, leaving it to run itself.

• Each of us is born from, and is part of, and is born into, the divine organism, filled with the wisdom of God, morality, and beauty.

• The mind is a blank slate. All knowledge comes from experience.

• Desire to move towards a condition of anarchy, no social structure at all, no government at all just a philosophical anarchism

• The just society derives its governing authority from the general will

Romantic and Neoclassical views on:

BIRTH NATURE

SOCIETY GOVERNMENT

UNIVERSE TRUTH

• Reason is not enough. Feelings, intuitions, imagination have their roles as well. The major romantics celebrate reason along with feelings, intuitions, and mystical insights.

• Reason is the only reliable guide to truth

• Society corrupts us. Social customs turn us away from that innate knowledge and cloud our memories of it. Society begins to corrupt our inborn wisdom, causes us to forget it, draws us away from it. Teaches us conformity to rules of decorum and politeness.