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Romanticism Introspective Thought, Love, and the Beauty of Nature. “Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste…” Oliver Goldsmith. PowerPoint devised by: Jesse Batterham, Jenna Tingleff, and David Edwards . Origins.
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RomanticismIntrospective Thought, Love, and the Beauty of Nature “Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste…” Oliver Goldsmith PowerPoint devised by: Jesse Batterham, Jenna Tingleff, and David Edwards
Origins • Emerged in 1700’s. • French Revolution • American Romanticism – Early 1800’s • Incorruptible – Ideals that endure! • New Rebellion. • “Freeeeeeeedom!” –Mel Gibson
Ideals • Nature • Senses • Feelings • Subjective Poetry • Personal; product of civilization. • Primitivism • The cavemen had it right! • The Supernatural • Rebellion • Transience
The Comparison Enlightenment Early 1600’s to Later 1700’s Romanticism Later 1700’s to Early 1800’s • Static view. • There is conservatism. • There is uniformity. • There is rationality. • Physics and math. • How life is… • Dynamic view. • There is revolution. • There is diversity. • There are feelings. • Genetics and biology. • How life should be…
Art • Nature • The Raft of the Medusa • -Theodore Géricault Vivid colors and passionate brushstrokes. • War • The Third of May 1808 • – Francisco de Goya Messy strokes and dramatic light.
Literature • The Specifics: • The role of war. • The role of women. • The Gothic novel. • Wild landscapes. • Edgar Allan Poe. • Lyrical Poetry • Feelings. • What did Romantics seek? • View of society? • Urbanization is a plague.
Literature II • The Big Three • William Wordsworth (“The Prelude”) • British Poet. • John Keats (“Ode on a Grecian Urn”) • Another British Poet. • Sensual Imagery. • Lord Byron (“Don Juan”) • British Poet. Yes. Another one. • Satirical, epically ironic, and…unfinished.
Ode On A Grecian Urn “Ah, happy, happy boughs! That cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the spring adieu; And, happy melodist, unwearied For ever piping songs for ever new; More happy love! More happy, happy love! For ever warm, and still to be enjoy’d, For ever panting, and for ever young; All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful And cloy’d, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.” -John Keats Stanza 3 Ideals of Romanticism: Nature Love Beauty Immortality Time without power. Air of tragedy.
Works Cited • “A Brief Guide to Romanticism” www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5670. 1997-2010. Academy of American Poets. November 2010. • “The Romantic Movement” http://historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=aa73. Gascoigne, Bamber. HistoryWorld. From 2001, ongoing. November 2010. • Emily Hutchinson. Prentice Hall Literature. Los Angeles Unified School District. 2000.