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The Romantic Period

The Romantic Period. Nature: works of art constructed by a divine imagination Symbolism: used extensively as human correlations of natures emblematic language Emotion: internalized the individuality of experience Romantic Hero: individual, unique, antagonist. William Blake: Isaac Newton.

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The Romantic Period

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  1. The Romantic Period • Nature: works of art constructed by a divine imagination • Symbolism: used extensively as human correlations of natures emblematic language • Emotion: internalized the individuality of experience • Romantic Hero: individual, unique, antagonist

  2. William Blake: Isaac Newton

  3. Nature • Works of art constructed by the divine imagination • Source of subject and image • “I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken nature’s social union” To A Mouse • A refuge of the artificial constructs of civilization including artificial language • “little lamb who made thee, dost thou know who made thee” The Lamb

  4. Nature Continued • Organic, not mechanical as juxtaposed with the industrial revolution • “I was angry with my friend;, I told my wrath, my wrath did end.” A Poison Tree • Viewed in conflict with human manipulation • “the best laid schemes of mice and men go often askew” To A mouse

  5. John Martin: The Great Day Of His Wrath

  6. Symbolism • Used extensively • “Till it bore an applebright” A Poison Tree • Describes the inexpressible, infinite • “in what distant deeps or skies burnt the fire of thine eyes” The Tiger • Human correlation • “little we see in Nature that is ours” The World Is Too Much With Us

  7. Romantic Hero • Individual, unique • Antagonist as hero • A fundamental belief in their own system from which to live • Everyday people in exotic places

  8. Examples of the Byronic Hero • Jack Bauer- 24 • Tupac • Jim Morrison

  9. Eugene Delacroix Massacre At Chios

  10. Emotion • Wordsworth: “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” • “We have given our hearts away, a sorbid boon! This sea that bares her bosom to the moon,” The World Is Too Much With Us • Illuminates the world within as opposed to recreating the world outside • “the present only touches you:, But oh! I backward cast my eye” To A Mouse

  11. Casper David Friedrich Northern Sea by Moonlight

  12. Emotions continued • First person lyrical poetry • The poet as speaker • “I would be loath to run and chase you” To A Mouse

  13. Industrial Revolution • The world outside against which the Romantic Poets protested • A systems approach to the external world as opposed to the organic qualities of nature • Age of invention that included the steam engine and iron

  14. Watt Steam Engine

  15. The Iron Bridge over the River Severn The first cast iron bridge in the world

  16. Derby Silk Factory First Factory in England

  17. The World Is Too Much With Us, by William Wordsworth

  18. The World Is Too Much With Us, by William WordsworthFormal elements

  19. Verbal elements • Emotional words • First person • Nature • Common language • Symbolism

  20. Proteus: Greek Sea God • Is of the water • Fluid, can take different forms • Other than Zeus, considered the most powerful god

  21. Triton: A merman Half man, half fish Can blow the conch shell to calm the sea

  22. Thematic elements • Man in conflict with nature • Deeper questions • Organic not systematic

  23. George Gordon, Lord Byron • Born 1788, became the 6th Baron of Rochdale • Traveled in the orient from 1809-1811 and later England, Spain, and Albania • Had a clubbed foot • Probably dated his half sister • Pro French • Committed suicide after turning 36

  24. She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron

  25. Kurt Cobain • Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 ﾐ c.April 5, 1994) was the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the Seattle-based rock band Nirvana.Cobain and Nirvana helped reshape popular music in the 1990s. In 1991, the arrival of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" marked the beginning of a dramatic shift of popular rock music away from the dominant genres of the 1980s (glam metal, arena rock, and dance-pop) and toward grunge and alternative rock. The music media eventually awarded the song "anthem-of-a-generation" status,[1] and, with it, Cobain ascended as the reluctant "spokesman" for Generation X. Other hit songs written by Cobain include "Come as You Are", "Lithium", "In Bloom", "Heart-Shaped Box", "All Apologies", and "About a Girl".During the last years of his life, Cobain struggled with drug addiction and the media pressures surrounding him and his wife Courtney Love. On April 8, 1994, Cobain was found dead in his home. His death was ruled a suicide by self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. Since then, the circumstances surrounding his death have fueled much analysis and debate.

  26. All Apologies What else should I be
 All apologies
 What else could I say
 Everyone is gay
 What else could I write
 I don't have the right
 What else should I be
 All apologies

 In the sun
 In the sun I feel as one
 In the sun
 In the sun
 I'm married
 Buried



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