Romanticism Values Synthesis

Romanticism is widely used even today. Nature over man-made plays a huge part in the romanticism genre. This is shown in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray. The surroundings of the poem really show the importance of nature and it's beauty. "Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight/ And all the air a solemn stillness holds,/ Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,/ And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds." This quote is talking about the landscape. Another piece of literature that shows nature over man-made is The World is Too Much with Us by William Wordsworth. In this poem it is saying that we have many distractions in the human world and we should be more focused on nature. "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:/ Little we see in Nature that is ours." This quote is explaining that we spend way to much time on worrying about getting and spending. We want to get more [money] so that we can spend it. Finally, Lines Composed a Few Miles About Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth is also focused on nature. This poem was written after he had taken a five mile walk with his sister. "These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs/ With a soft inland murmur." This quote is explaining how magnificent the water and how necessary it is to human life and existence.

Blake/Wordsworth/Coleridge/Romanticism

1. No, I don't agree with that view because you need to look at reasons when making a big decision. Emotions change very frequently.
2. It represents the innocence and experience.
3. Yes I do agree with that, because our culture and society is very materialistic.
4. I haven't had any that I can remember recently.

Blake and Burns

1. He uses the language.
2. The idea in Auld Lang Syne is the tenderness of friendship, the joy of celebration, and the value in memories. In John Anderson, My Jo, it celebrates lifelong friendship, honoring a couple who have shared the joys and hard work of youth and now share their later years. It is celebrating emotion over reason.
3. The hill stands for life.
4. He had visions that influenced his poetry.
5. They each make use of a regular rhyme scheme and frequent repetition. The animals represent innocence and experience. Because the world is both beautiful and ugly and it's important to understand both sides. They represent the Garden of Eden.
6. They are about nature and things that represent human qualities both good and bad. They reject order and reason. It's all about nature and life.

Romanticism Questions

1. It began in 1785 and ended in 1832. It was a dramatic change with rebellion. Emotion over reason, nature over human artifice, ordinary people over aristocrats, and spontaneity and wildness over decorum and control.
2. King George III was king of England from 1760-1820. The French Revolution began. France declared war on England in 1793.
3. They followed the Neoclassical model of imitating traditional literary forms. They showed romanticism in their emotional explorations and in their perceptions of nature as wild and untamed. Thomas Gray, Robert Burns, and William Blake.
4. The publication of Lyrical Ballads. He explained the revolutionary theory of poetry within the book. He explains that poetry should be about common people and events. Wordsworth and Coleridge were the second generation of romantic era poets. The celebrated emotion over reason and nature over science.
5. Long storeis containing elements of suspense, mystery, magic, and the macabre, with exotic settings such as haunted castles and untamed wildernesses. The Castle of Otranto, the Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein.
6. Novel of manners.

Pride and Prejudice

1. Elizabeth has the pride because she acted stuck up. Mr. Darcy has the prejudice because he looks down on people.
2. Women cannot own land. High expectations to be sophisticated.
3. Darcy is in higher class than Elizabeth. They didn't have much say if in middle class.
4. Do everything; be sophisticated. She declines the offer of marriage.
5. That arranged marriages are not good because they don't know each other and that marriages should be based on choice. Yes.

Candide

1. Candide gets thrown out of the castle and onto the streets, he becomes a beggar. He was made a soldier after being found by the Bulgarians. The King spared his life so he didn't get beheaded.

2. It is showing that everything happens for a reason and it has a purpose.

3. In candide war and government show that it is all the same. Religion was shown when the religious guy didn't help Candide the beggar but a non religious guy did help him.

4. The irony is that the king becomes a beggar when he had threw Candide out on the street.

5. I believe that everything does happen for a reason but somethings are great that happen.

Gulliver's Travels

In the world of the Huanhuhums Swift is saying that humans aren't perfect. The horses were capturing yahoos instead of the people capturing the horses. It is blatant. It showed a lot of irony; you could visualize it better. It made me think because it went back and forth between the worlds and brought out some good points to think about.