Test 2 Flashcards
3 majro revolutions:
1.american 2. french 3. industrial
1837
queen victoria took reign
1784-1837
romanticism
1784
johnson died
reason has limitation; where reason stops intuition/instincts take over
kant (german)
2 major classes:
1 very wealthy 2 very poor (labor class)
dangerous working conditions, no education,no rights,harsh displine, no union
labor class
people who went and destroyed machines
luddites
1 generally deprived 2 regarded as inferior in intellect 3 limited schooling 4 almost no legal rights
women
age of poetry:
imagination,newness, creative
Characteristics of romanticism:
emphases of imagination;idealistic;emotion;poetry;love of nature;mysterious;supernatural;natural;love of sublime;no rhyme
feeling of awe you get from nature
sublime
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
john keats
“Ode to a Nightingale”
John keats
“Tintern Abbey”
william wordsworth