C oleridge – Christabel LQ : How is homosexual love presented in Coleridge’s Christabel ?

1. Love: platonic, courtly, unrequited, godly, familial, illicit, adulterous, lustful Social Context: Enlightenment, revolution, Industrial revolution, Empire LIT TERMS: pentameter, alliteration, sexual language, Byronic ryhme, Byronic hero, rhyme scheme Coleridge – ChristabelLQ:How is homosexual love presented in Coleridge’s Christabel?

2. Love: platonic, courtly, unrequited, godly, familial, illicit, adulterous, lustful Social Context: Enlightenment, revolution, Industrial revolution, Empire LIT TERMS: pentameter, alliteration, sexual language, Byronic ryhme, Byronic hero, rhyme scheme Outstanding progress: well-chosen quotations, sophisticated language used, literary devices analysed, effect on reader argued with perceptive points made, alternative interpretations revealed, developed consideration of social and historical context Coleridge – ChristabelLQ:How is homosexual love presented in Coleridge’s Christabel? Excellent progress: well-chosen quotations, literary devices analysed, effect on reader discussed, alternative interpretations considered and social context mentioned

3. Love: platonic, courtly, unrequited, godly, familial, illicit, adulterous, lustful Social Context: Enlightenment, revolution, Industrial revolution, Empire LIT TERMS: pentameter, alliteration, sexual language, Byronic ryhme, Byronic hero, rhyme scheme From all the poems we have studied (or that you have read) which have presented homosexual love?EXT: where else have we read about homosexual love (other genres)

4. Love: platonic, courtly, unrequited, godly, familial, illicit, adulterous, lustful Social Context: Enlightenment, revolution, Industrial revolution, Empire LIT TERMS: pentameter, alliteration, sexual language, Byronic ryhme, Byronic hero, rhyme scheme The Romantics World changing events in the late 18th century - from the French Revolution via American Independence - instigated a new movement in the art, literature and thinking of Britain: The Romantics. The generation of Romantic poets who came after him, principally among them Coleridge and Wordsworth, helped to redefine the concept of nature as a healing and spiritual force. They were the first to recognise the redemptive powers of the natural world, and were truly the pioneers in what has since become the ‘back to nature' movement. Anyone who yearns to walk beside the sea, or to ascend a mountain, or to row across a lake, owes a great debt to these two English poets. Coleridge also looked inward, as well as outward, and in his meditative poetry he enlarged the boundaries of the individual sensibility; he introduced into his verse all the nightmare and drama of his opium-induced visions, so that human nature itself was enlarged and redefined as the subject of poetry. Together Wordsworth and Coleridge helped to create a new definition of the sublime and the beautiful, evincing an aesthetic very different from the orthodox classical principles of formal symmetry and proportion.

5. Love: platonic, courtly, unrequited, godly, familial, illicit, adulterous, lustful Social Context: Enlightenment, revolution, Industrial revolution, Empire LIT TERMS: pentameter, alliteration, sexual language, Byronic ryhme, Byronic hero, rhyme scheme One of the most influential and controversial figures of the Romantic period, Coleridge was born in 1772 the son of a clergyman in Ottery St. Mary, Devon. His career as a poet and writer were established after he befriended Wordsworth and together they produced the Lyrical Ballads in 1798. For most of his adult life he suffered through addiction to laudanum and opium. His most famous works – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel – all took supernatural themes and presented exotic images, perhaps affected by his use of the drugs. Coleridge was as much a prose and theoretical writer as he was a poet, as revealed in his major work, BiographiaLiteraria, published in 1817. Coleridge's had a propensity for leaving projects unfinished and suffered from large debts. But, such was the originality of his early work, that his place and influence within the Romantic period is undisputed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772: Born1794: First poems published1797: Meets Wordsworth1798: Publishes Lyrical Ballads1834: Dies

6. Love: platonic, courtly, unrequited, godly, familial, illicit, adulterous, lustful Social Context: Enlightenment, revolution, Industrial revolution, Empire LIT TERMS: pentameter, alliteration, sexual language, Byronic ryhme, Byronic hero, rhyme scheme Outstanding progress: well-chosen quotations, sophisticated language used, literary devices analysed, effect on reader argued with perceptive points made, alternative interpretations revealed, developed consideration of social and historical context SECTIONS OF Poem… Part 1. 1. Type(s) of love2. Analyse for language, structural techniques used in presenting love3. Any social/contextual points? Excellent progress: well-chosen quotations, literary devices analysed, effect on reader discussed, alternative interpretations considered and social context mentioned

7. Love: platonic, courtly, unrequited, godly, familial, illicit, adulterous, lustful Social Context: Enlightenment, revolution, Industrial revolution, Empire LIT TERMS: pentameter, alliteration, sexual language, Byronic ryhme, Byronic hero, rhyme scheme Outstanding progress: well-chosen quotations, sophisticated language used, literary devices analysed, effect on reader argued with perceptive points made, alternative interpretations revealed, developed consideration of social and historical context SECTIONS OF Part1Join with another groupOnce you have fed back ideas, link to wider readingEXT: how does this fit with gothic conventions of the time? Excellent progress: well-chosen quotations, literary devices analysed, effect on reader discussed, alternative interpretations considered and social context mentioned

8. Love: platonic, courtly, unrequited, godly, familial, illicit, adulterous, lustful Social Context: Enlightenment, revolution, Industrial revolution, Empire LIT TERMS: pentameter, alliteration, sexual language, Byronic ryhme, Byronic hero, rhyme scheme Outstanding progress: well-chosen quotations, sophisticated language used, literary devices analysed, effect on reader argued with perceptive points made, alternative interpretations revealed, developed consideration of social and historical context Feedback to class Excellent progress: well-chosen quotations, literary devices analysed, effect on reader discussed, alternative interpretations considered and social context mentioned

9. Love: platonic, courtly, unrequited, godly, familial, illicit, adulterous, lustful Social Context: Enlightenment, revolution, Industrial revolution, Empire LIT TERMS: pentameter, alliteration, sexual language, Byronic ryhme, Byronic hero, rhyme scheme Outstanding progress: well-chosen quotations, sophisticated language used, literary devices analysed, effect on reader argued with perceptive points made, alternative interpretations revealed, developed consideration of social and historical context What are the key quotations we can use later in the year for our exams?EXT: do they apply to other types of love? Excellent progress: well-chosen quotations, literary devices analysed, effect on reader discussed, alternative interpretations considered and social context mentioned

10. Love: platonic, courtly, unrequited, godly, familial, illicit, adulterous, lustful Social Context: Enlightenment, revolution, Industrial revolution, Empire LIT TERMS: pentameter, alliteration, sexual language, Byronic ryhme, Byronic hero, rhyme scheme Outstanding progress: well-chosen quotations, sophisticated language used, literary devices analysed, effect on reader argued with perceptive points made, alternative interpretations revealed, developed consideration of social and historical context How does Coleridge present homosexuality or illicit love in Christabel?2 paras: 1. close analysis of Christabel2. Wider reading link Excellent progress: well-chosen quotations, literary devices analysed, effect on reader discussed, alternative interpretations considered and social context mentioned