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Romanticism

Romanticism. What is Romanticism?. Intellectual and artistic movement Late 18 th century and mid 19 th century Took ideas from 17 th century Gothicism Challenged the values of the Enlightenment such as the social, political and economic changes

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Romanticism

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  1. Romanticism

  2. What is Romanticism? • Intellectual and artistic movement • Late 18th century and mid 19th century • Took ideas from 17th century Gothicism • Challenged the values of the Enlightenment such as the social, political and economic changes • Valued emotions and intuition, the importance of the individual and the exploration of the natural wilderness • Characterised by imagination, individualism, idealism, humanity (especially childhood), nature classified by supernatural or sublime features and freedom of the spirit.

  3. Imagination and Human Experience Inherent to Romanticism • Imagination: the action of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses • Imagination and human experience are essential characteristics of Romanticism • People could explore new ideas • See things from other people’s perspectives • Visualise the future • Remember the past

  4. Where is it seen? • Frost at Midnight(1798)The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(1797-98)-Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) • To a Skylark(1820)- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) • Song:Memory Come Hither(1908)- William Blake (1757-1827)

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  6. Where is it seen? • Frost at Midnight(1798)The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(1797-98)-Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) • To a Skylark(1820)- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) • Song:Memory Come Hither(1908)- William Blake (1757-1827)

  7. How literary techniques represent the power of the imagination and its impact on human experience • Ballad form • Structure of stanzas • Variation in tone and rhythm • Imagery • Juxtaposition • Rhetorical questions • Alliteration

  8. Imagination’s power to inform or to illuminate and to transform • When imagination is used to inform, the idea is used as a comment • When imagination is used to illuminate and transform, this idea is brought to light, thought about, and results in an outcome

  9. Imagination’s power to inform • Tell a story • Inform others about what someone is thinking • See from someone else’s perspective

  10. Imagination’s power to illuminate and transform • Learn something from viewing a situation from someone else’s point of view • Visualise the future to make present hardships appear less challenging

  11. Examination or affirmation of the power of the imagination and its impact on human experience? • Frost at Midnight, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and To a Skylark are affirmations • Memory Come Hither is an examination

  12. Does the examination or affirmation reflect or challenge the ways of thinking during this period? • The affirmations of Frost at Midnight, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and To a Skylark challenge the ways of thinking • The examination of Memory Come Hither reflects it

  13. Bibliography Books • BLOOM, Harold. “English Romantic Poetry” Chelsea House Publisher: United States of America, 2004 • MAXWELL, Richard. TRUMPENER, Katie. “Fiction in the Romantic Period” Cambridge University Press: New York, 2008 • STANNERS, Barbara. “Exploring genre and style: Romanticism” Phoenix Education Pty Ltd: NSW, 2009 Websites • http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oAhlCXJR_cQ/RpCAwaKdLfI/AAAAAAAAA6I/5WNd6N6wa0c/s1600/PB_MG_7171Skylark-10x15.jpg • http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html • http://encylopedia.farlex.com/The+Romantic+Period • http://english.freehosting.net/englishpoets800.htm • http://www.gradesaver.com/percy-shelley-poems/study-guide/section10/ • http://www.gradesaver.com/the-complete-poems-of-william-blake/study-guide/section10/ • http://www.hsc.csu.edu.au/english/extension1/texts/elect2/3993/romanticism.htm#coleridge • http://www.hsc.csu.edu.au/english/extension1/texts/elect2/3993/romanticism.htm • http://www.opendoorworld.com/albatross/albatross_1.jpg • http://www.successconsciousness.com/index_000007.htm

  14. Discussion • Romanticism as an art movement • Romantic texts challenging the values of the Enlightenment • Imagination then and now

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