Romanticism

in Europe

Germany

Sturm und drang

France

Rousseau

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Natural state of man

Italy

Foscolo

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Leopardi

Manzoni

causes

French Revolution

Napoleonic wars

Agricultural Revolution

Industrial Revolution

growth of city

mechanization of producion

gap between rich and poor

XIX CENTURY

in Literature

Blake

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-PRE-ROMANTIC POET-ENGRAVER- CHRISTIAN

songs of innocence

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innocence: state of freedom, happynesschildhood: pure, uncorrupted, naive

The Lamb

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1. STRUCTURE: 2 stanzas 2. RYME: musicality --> figure of speach (allitteration, assonance, personification)3. LANGUAGE: simple4.SYMBOLS: lamb -->innocence, Cristo5. THEME: creation6. SETTING: country side ( vs industrial landscape of city side)7.SPEAKER: poet=child8.QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS9. RELEVACE TO ROMANTICISM: -innocence of childhood (1st stanza) -Lamb: idylliac creature--> sense of beauty

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songs of experience

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experience: disillusionment, corruption of innocencelimits of freedom: society, institution

The Tyger

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1.STRUCTURE: 4 stanzas in quatrains2. RYME: musicality --> figure of speach (allitteration, synecdoche, methaphor, repetition of the same words)3.SYMBOLS: Tyger --> experience deeps -> hell \ sky -> heaven stars --> angels ( Lucifer) fire --> divine creation and tyger's ferocity4. THEME : creation--> GOD= BLACKSMITH =created both tyger and lamb5. SETTING: industrial city6. SPEAKER: ADULT 7. QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS (obessive repetition= anxie)8. ROMANTIC THEMES: -MYTOLOGY (hammer=Thor\ wings=Icarus\ fire=Prometheus) -INNOCENCE LOST 9. EXPERIENCE: God and Evil coexist

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1st generation

Wordsworth

We are seven

a

ballad form

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1. METRIC PATTERN: Iambic tetrameter2. RYME SCHEME: abab3. ORDINARY MAN'S LANGUAGE4.DIALOGUE between narrator and little girl5.FIGURE OF SPEACH: (assonance , allitteration, repetition of the same words\ questions)

country side

theme of death

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the little girl lost her two brothers

Romantics themes

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1. CHILD: METAPHOR OF LOST INNOCENCE 1st stanza: retorical question--> children haven't got idea about death because irrational2. DIFFERENT PERCEPTION OF REALITY BETWEEN ADULT AND CHILD3. MIDDLE AGE4. COUNTRY SIDE : perception of beauty

Coleridge

KEY WORDS

RETURN TO NATURE

Means to tell with God

Reality:rational and materialistic

IMAGINATION

EMOCTION

look inward own soul

ROLE OF THE POET

seer

prophet

guide

RETURN TO MIDDLE AGE

CHILDHOOD

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CHILD IS SYMBOL OF INNOCENCE, PURITY.HE IS NAIVE, UNCORRUPTED