Romantic Era Exam Flashcards
Nature and Emotions
Wrote: Lines written in the early spring, The world is too much with us, London, I wandered lonely as a cloud, and Lyrical Ballads.
Wordsworth (1st)
Supernatural, nature, and strange.
Wrote: The rime of ancient mariner.
Coleridge (1st)
Vivid imagery, drama, emotions, edge.
Wrote: She walks in beauty, written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos.
Byron (2nd)
Abstract, eternity, mortality, nature.
Wrote: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, Ozymandias, Ode to the West wind., Defense of Poetry.
Shelley (2nd)
Death, yearning, eternity, abstract, past, mortality vs immortality.
Wrote: bright star, ode to a Grecian Urn, On seeing the Elgin marbles, when i have fears that i may cease to be.
Keats (2nd)
Wrote an epic so that men would read it.
Wrote: Washing day
Barbauld
Inspiration and influenced the Feminist movement
Wrote: A vindication of the right of woman: chapter 2
(Woman= all of women as a species.)
Wollstonecraft
Criticism of Wollstonecraft
Wrote: The home of England.
Hemans
Emotions, common language, nature, illustrated for his pieces.
Wrote: Songs of Innocence, The Lamb, The chimney sweeper, Songs of experience, The Tyger, The chimney sweeper.
Blake
Nature, common life, nature, common language (Scottish).
Wrote: to a mouse, to a louse
Burns
Wollstonecraft’s Influence?
- Laid the foundation for modern Feminism
- Advocated for women’s education
- Inspired women’s rights activists.
- influenced political and philosophical thoughts.
Longer-term impact on feminist literature
Wollstonecrafts Importance?
Women need to be able to think and not just be able to take orders from men.
Songs of Innocence vs. Songs of Experience?
Innocence is a PIPER singing
Experience is a BARB talking.
Who talked about the spirit being more important than the body?
2nd generation. (Keats, Shelley, Byron)
- Divine Inspiration and power creative force
- Sympathy, virtue, and moral imagination.
- Refines emotions and inspires noble action. Flourishes poetic tradition.
- Imagination is GOOD. Reason is BAD.
- Poetry remains immortal.
- Social change
- All great literature is poetry
Defense of poetry. (2nd generation)
- purpose- not to other poets but to us.
- Common life- what normal people do.
- Ordinary language- simpler to understand
- Emotions- thinking is BAD. Imagination is GOOD. It is the central purpose.
- Roles of poets- born a poet, not taught to be a poet.
- Nature- saw God in nature
- Critique of tradition- Earlier traditions in poetry are rejected.
- Purpose of poetry- awaken the imagination of the reader.
Lyrical Ballads (1st generation)
