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Ext 1. Assess task #3. So… what was “new” and different about Romanticism in the late 18 th century and the 19 th century??. BEFORE…? NEO-CLASSIC LITERATURE. ROMANTICISM…. Individual beliefs and ideas Individuals challenged the social expectations and were beyond control

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  1. Ext 1 Assess task #3

  2. So… what was “new” and different about Romanticism in the late 18th century and the 19th century?? BEFORE…? NEO-CLASSIC LITERATURE ROMANTICISM… • Individual beliefs and ideas • Individuals challenged the social expectations and were beyond control • Un-manicured gardens – mountains / oceans / forests • Positioned the responder to be inspired • The “natural” world was sublime • Universal beliefs and ideas • Individuals conformed to social expectations • Manicured and “show” gardens • Positioned the responder to feel peaceful and tranquil • The “natural” world was dangerous and evil

  3. How do you define Romanticism? What must a text “do” to be a romantic literature? • Individual • Subjective / opinionated • Irrational • Imaginative • Personal • Emotional • Visionary • Transcendental • Diversity • Originality • Quality • Egalitarian freedom • Individual sensibility • Imagination • Sublime power of nature • “Heart over head” • Individuality & eccentricity • Genius and inventiveness • Solitude • The “common man” and rural lifestyle

  4. “…of snow upon the mountains and the moors –no - - yet still steadfast still unchangeables” Sonnet identifying with evening star and nature. Contrasts nature and life, values nature, individualism. Symbolic use of snow as metaphor for purity of nature “haunted, wailing, seething, vaulted, flung, meandering, sank.” Repetition of the present continuous “ing” and use of and onomatopoeia verbs position responder to feel the sublime power of nature as if it is happening “now”. The verbs include the responder into the scene itself Sublime power of nature “a high wind blustered around the house and roared in the chimney” Savagery of nature, storms on the moors foreshadows Old Earnshaw ‘s death :dogs as motif, cruelty and savagery, linked to the sublime destruction of nature”

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