exam 1 Flashcards
William Blake: Historical Context
- trained in copying (engraver); produced drawings of others
- invented ILLUMINATED PRINTING; pictures and words side by side
~ used in SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND
OF EXPERIENCE
William Blake’s religion was individual and contrarian, theory of correspondence
William Blake: discography
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- opposites, confront darkness within
ourselves
The Divine Image
- people embody god’s goodness, dual nature of humanity
London
- about the division the industrial revolution brought
William Wordsworth: Historical Context
Sympathized with the revolution
Became poet laureate of england (highest honor for poets in britain)
Published Lyrical Ballads with Coleridge
Wanted to make poetry more conversational
Wordsworth and Coleridge created new genre; Lyrical Ballads
William Blake: discography
Tintern Abbey
~nature as a source of healing and moral
guidance, nature as caring and nurturing
- about a particular memory in tinturn
abbey, he feels connected with this
place, very in tune with nature (brings
him to divine), spirit of river, address to
younger sister who he saw innocence
in
Nutting
~ nature as a source of enchantment and pleasure, nature as fragile and subject to violation (obligation to protect it)
- somewhat sexual, projecting feelings
onto nature but advises friend to treat
nature with more care
Samuel Coleridge
poet, literary critic, and philosopher
cared about democratic ideals – IMAGINATION (divine inspiration)
Devised utopian scheme “Pantisocracy”; all–society, wanted a government by all equally
took lots of opium for health
Coleridge: discography
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
~lyrical ballad
- a thoughtless act can have lasting
repercussions, one can never escape
punishment from crime
Frost at Midnight
~written for his son, expresses Coleridge’s philosophies about the unity and sacredness of all living things (connections btwn physical and spiritual)
- grew up away from nature but wants his
son to be close with it. nature is a
teacher/book
Kubla Khan
~written while on opium, creativity and imagination
- power of imagination, nature herself
has a body, nature and order, order and
balance of creation has been upset
John Keats: historical context
lost both parents to TB- left big scar, died young of TB
acquaintance to wordsworth
John Keats: discography
When I Have Fears
-being alive is sublime, beauty and terror, immortality, living is sublime
To Autumn
- paradise on earth
Olaudah Equiano: historical context
sold into slavery at 10; bought himself back after a year of saving money
abolitionist who founded sons of africa
Olaudah Equiano: discography
The Interesting Life in the Narrative of Olaudah Equiano
- talk about his experiences as a slave and
call out religious hypocrisies
Romanticism
critique on human knowledge and “progress” romantic writers pushback on this, romanticism was an intellectual movement, focus on body, feeling, passion, intuition, freedom/liberty
Lyrical Ballads
first person, fuses lyric and ballad; first person with longer storytelling form
spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: emotion recollected in tranquility
Lyric
single speaker/first person
addresses another person/being etc
Ballad
third person
ballad stanza: quatrain (4 lines) with alternating four/three iambic lines (8 syllables to 6, and so forth)
sublime
beautiful but scary
