Romanticism

Question 1

Romanticism

Answer 1

18th century:
•neoclassicism—> Roman classicism + poetic diction
•romanticism—> more people + no poetic diction

Question 2

Blake

Answer 2

•Against institutions = repressive
•Garden of love —>
1. simple language, monosyllabic/anglo saxon words, length is short, ballad rhyme (ABCB), literary ballad
2. Love -nature -childhood VS institutions -chapel -adulthood

Question 3

Wordsworth

Answer 3

•lyrical ballads —> preface = theoretical manifesto
•we are seven —>
1.literary ballad
2. straight to the point: subject = death, protagonist = child
3. Short lines, monosyllabic terms, pure language, iambic tre/quadrimetre
3. Mix narration/dialogue

Question 4

Coleridge

Answer 4

•lyrical ballads
•the rime of the ancient mariner —>
1. 7 parts, monosyllabic and Anglo-Saxon words but archaic English , iambic pentameter with variations, ABCB rhyme
2. Dialogues
3. Introduction topic, subject, protagonist
4. Supernatural + gothic atmosphere

Question 5

HISTORY AS A DEMON - WATKINS

Answer 5

•Mariner destroys any sense of Christian community either Christian symbolism —> snakes = African slaves, humblest, devil
•schizophrenic poem —> contradictory = opposite identities, want to teach something but get the opposite effect on the guest