ROMANTIC Flashcards
HOLY THURS - key points
lest you drive an angel from your door - warning - Lot
Two & two - AMPERSAND - close formation, rigorous
White as snow vs IN red & blue & green - direct connection vs simile - indirect
Thames ‘ waters - polluted
Town vs own = disparity between children and the city - half rhyme
Lambs - sacrifice
ST PAULS CATHEDRAL HAD BEEN REBUILT
SICK ROSE important points
O Rose - England, capitalised - spondee - importance
Juxtaposition sick - subversion
Flies - dynamic power - worm & storm half rhyme - destabilising
Worm = corruption - joy/destroy - completing destructive process - masculine rhyme
Rose is passive no verbs
The Tyger important points
Tyger Tyger - trachaic but irregular - fear/unnatrual
Rhyme scheme - mechanical/creation
SF of body parts vs SF OF MACHINERY - humans undergoing transformation
Sinews = supposed to be muscle / strong but managed to overcome - art = blacksmith
Stars threw down their spears - going against the ‘fate’ of humanity?
LONDON important points
I WAnder - breaks iambic - freedom?
AND MARK
Chartered Thames - for trading, etc, juxtaposed with ‘flow’
Child to Infant - young
Hapless soldiers sigh - sibilance broken by P
Blackening church - religious skepticism
Mind forged manacles - tried to break free like French rev
INTS OF IMMORTALITY- key points
Appareled - contrast - now exposed
Dream - unattainable
Yore - archaic - further in the past
Light becoming fragmented - half/conditional/earthly light vs ‘celestial’
Festival/coronal - tries to worship something he is now not part of
In our embers is something that doth live - man made
I feel-I feel vs I hear, I hear - not separate
To me alone - isolation
TINTERN ABBEY key points
Iambic pentameter - conversational quality
Hermit - connects with religion
In this moment there is life and food for future years
Presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts
Deeper zeal of holier love - connection with memory
Memory as a dwelling place for all sweet harmonies
LRIES key points
And ’tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
‘Faith … enjoys air it breathes’ - nature is satisfied in its own creation
Factories were tainting the air SMOG
Hopped played - joy, freedom
Juxtaposed speaker who is passive
Cannot measure - humanity does not understand nature - caesura - disconnection between our experience.
Desire to impose order on nature - romantics were critics of science
Least - juxtaposed ‘thrill of pleasure’ nature is not burdened
‘Budding’ - new life. Nature is regenerating
Multiple ‘air’ image - life force
‘Must’ not understood - tries to apply logic and reason - desperation to believe in spite of not knowing for certain - nature is central
Lines Inscribed cup key points
Start not - subverting surprise
I lived I loved I quaffed - noble contrasted with quaffed
Sparkling grape. Vs earth worm
- nurse - Christian values
- slimy - ungrateful, no reward
Gods - makes it sound noble but contrasts Christian god
Sped dead - past tense, permanent
Wasting clay - criticised ‘creator’
Better- comparative, didactic
Roving - key points
So - decision reached
We’ll - royal we/absolves himself of guilt?/shame?
Night was made for loving = hedonism is our purpose xx
light of the moon - allure, romance, away from the critical eye of society
Ends with light of the moon - reader is encouraged, still has opportunity even though it has been taken away from the reader
And, and, and - justifies, sense of urgency, absolving himself /shame
Cold Earth slept below
Consistent rhyme scheme - tries to impose order on the incomprehensible/ disturbing
-> half rhyme - shone vs moon - cannot impose this order
Earth and sky, above and below - whole landscape is invaded/cold
‘All around, chilling sound’ echo/ reverberation
Green, seen - internal
Black - used multiple times
Breath of night - irony as death pervades everything typically life giving
Pathway - created by humanity, roots - taken over by Nature
Fen fires subverts hope of the moon
Eyes Glowed- lacks humanity
Glare - condemning
Shook I. Wind - vulnerable
