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Romantic Age Flashcards

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Period of romanticism

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1760-1837

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American revolution who when what

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George III and lord north
Heavy taxation
Massacre 1770
1773 Boston tea party
4 July 1776 American independence
1779 George Washington-> democracy

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When independence America ?

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4 July 1776

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Democracy is founded on what in America ?

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All man are created equal -> life liberty and happiness

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French Revolution when why who

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Attack the absolute monarchy
1789-1799
1799 Napoleone , reign of Napoleone last 22 years until congress of viene
Trafalgar Square Nelson destroyed napoleon fleet

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Industrial revolution

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1750
Invention where
Spinnin Jenny
James watt’s steam engine
Transport and street improved
Terrible condition

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Beauty

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Pleasing to the senses
Small
Predictable
Bright
Easy to control
Graceful
Focus on the object

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Sublime

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Strong emotion and natural phenomena
Terror fear but also respect
Attraction but fear
Environment mirror of the feelings
Fear of pain
Focus on self

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Romantic poem 1 generation

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William Blake
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Poets 2 generation

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George Gordon lord Byron
Percy Shelly
John Keats

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Thomas gray

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Pre romantic
Elegy written in a country churchyard
At night so -> sublime setting
Meaning of life and death
It doesn’t metter if you’re rich or poor
Neoclassicism form and a romantic content

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William Blake

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The chimney sweeper
18 century
From song of innocence

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William Wordsworth

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My heart leaps up 1802
Daffodils 1802
The prelude 1850

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How his relationship with nature changes ? William Wordsworth

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At first he is fascinated by beauty and pantheism
Then beauty for healing , he search sublime
In the prelude he fears it because he recognize its power

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 1834 influenced by what

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Influenced by French Revolution

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge settle where

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Lake District

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The rime of the ancient mariner age

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1798

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The rime of the ancient mariner setting

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Wedding hall -> heartily setting
Story within the story -> open ocean (also can see as our subconscious)

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Rhyme of the ancient mariner symbols

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Weather and colors
Death of albatross
Planets -> moon sun and stars moon as the master the ocean as the slave as the moon iptnotize the mariners

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Rime of the ancient mariner temes

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Pride
Overreached
Sublime
Imagination - Wordsworth imagination is more childish while Coleridge triggered by substances
Isolation
Supernatural

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Kubla khan

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1798

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Kuala khan themes

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Sublime
Imagination
Poet is god
Drugs

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Differenze 1 gen poeti

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English reality
Simple and spontaneous language
Concern with humble people
Nature as a healing power vs sublime

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Differenze 2 gen poeti

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Mediterranean country
Died young
Language elaborate and deep
Concern with the classical world
Nature concerned with immortality like they are envy of it

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George Gordon -lord Byron

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Nobil origin
Tour of Spain Portugal Malta Alabama Greece Middle East
Married with Annabella Milbanke
Incestuos relationship with his Hal sister Augusta -> he had to leave England

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Byronic hero

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Moody restless mysterious romantic rebel
Hides sockets in the past
Individualism
Rejected conventional moral rules of society
Outsider isolated but attractive at the same time
Nobile but wild and rough at manners
Looks hard but handsome
Great sensibility to nature and beauty
Bored of the excesses of the world
Woman cannot resist him

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Byronic’s views of nature

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Source of consolation and joy
It has no message
Sublime : the wildest and most exotic natural landscapes reflect poet’s mood and feelings

28
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So we’ll go no more

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George gordon Byronic hero
In Venice
Theme are love , betrayal, sublime
Byronic hero
Aging and fear of death

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Percy Bysshe Shelly 1792 1822

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Born in horsham but he travelled in Europe
Influential family father member of parliament and mother landowner
Etan college but expelled
Non conformist to society
Married Harriet Westbrook but he fall in love with Mary Godwin
Wife committed suicide
France and Switzerland to marry with Mary
Daughter elena Who died young
1821 Poem for the death of Keats
They moved in lerci
Died for drowning in a tempest or suicide

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Ozymandias

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1818
Transcendent
Relationship between men art and nature
Power of nature
Art

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John Keats

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1759 1821 born in London
Doomed Love story with Fanny Browne bc he was poor and in bad healt so her family didn’t want him
Died of tuberculosis

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Keats beauty

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Imagination- physical beauty and negative capability

33
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Bright star setting

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Speaker first person
At night
Sudden shift of setting

34
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Bright star symbol

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Star
Transciense
Sympathy

35
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Bright star themes

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Love
Loyalty
Isolation
Time
Nature -> pantheism at beginning at the end ripening

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