"The Romantic Period" (1798-1832)- Text - Pages 622-628+ POETS 640-763
OVERALL ROMANTIC PERIOD (1798-1832) STUDY TIME: MARCH 20 - May 2, 2008
TEST: THE ROMANTIC POETS: May 6, 2008
TASK: GROUP PROJECT: STUDENTS (2-3) WILL CHOOSE POEMS - DATES
INDIVIDUAL POEMS: STUDENTS WILL WRITE SIX (6) POEMS -AS DIRECTED - WITH VISUALS, AND IN A POCKET (THREE PRONG POCKET FOLDER) - ORGANIZE THEIR POETRY BOOKLET WITH A TITLE PAGE, TABLE OF CONTENTS, SIX (6) POEMS - TYPED NEATLY, WITH ONE POEM AND POET’S BIOGRAPHY TYPED AND ANNOTATED (PARODY POEM) FROM THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, AN OPENING AND CLOSING, AND OF COURSE, A WORKS CITED. NO WORKS CITED = A ZERO.
THE POETS ARE LISTED BELOW:
CINQUAIN - COMPLETED - EXTRA CREDIT FOR THIS PROJECT.
Some Websites are listed below:
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/
Dates: March 20 - Mar 31, 2008 (Quiz on Reading) + TWO HANDOUTS:
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD - with Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud.”
Shelley’s “Ozymandias.” Read both handouts. TW: C/C - In Class - “Ozymandias” - vs “Ozymandias Revisited”
ELEMENTS OF ROMANTICISM:
1. EMPHASIS ON THE IMAGINATION - AND NATURALISM.
2. THE INDIVIDUAL’S PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, EMOTIONS, IN SIMPLE, UNADORNED
LANGUAGE.
3. LYRICS BECAME THE BEST FORM SUTIED TO EXPRESS FEELINGS, SELF-REVELATIONS, AND THE IMAGINATION.
4. MORE - DEMOCRATIC ATTITUDE: MEN SPEAKING TO MEN.
5. INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY WITH SYMPATHY FOR THOSE WHO REBEL AGAINST TYRANNY.
6. NATURE IS TRANSFORMATIVE POETS BECAME FASCINATED WITH THE WAYS NATURE AND THE HUMAN MIND “MIRRORED” THE OTHER’S CREATIVE PROPERTIES.
7. AN APPRECIATION FOR THE CLASSIC ROMAN AND GREEK.
8. THE GOTHIC GENRE BECAME POPULAR WITH EMPHASIS ON THE SUPERNATURAL.
FAMOUS POETS:
ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796) - READ - PAGES 640-644. “TO A MOUSE” (DIALECT) THE LINES “THE BEST LAID SCHEMES O’MICE AN’MEN” (BURNS L 542), WAS USED BY JOHN STEINBECK FOR HIS GREAT DEPRESSION NOVEL OF MICE AND MEN, WHICH REFLECTS THE SAME THEME OF BURNS THAT “MAN AND NATURE ARE CONNECTED AND NEED EACH OTHER TO SURVIVE.”
ROMANTIC CONNECTION: “HUMANITY HAS DISTURBED OR IS DESTROYING THE BALANCE OF NATURE.
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827) - READ - PAGES 645-655: “THE TYGER”; “THE LAMB”; “THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER - SONGS OF INNOCENCE; “THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER” - SONGS OF EXPERIENCE; AND “A POISON TREE.” (PARALLELISM).
ROMANTIC CONNECTION: “THE PLIGHT OF THE POOR.”
ASSIGNMENT: RESEARCH/PRINT OUT AND CITE: A GLOBAL TOPIC - WHERE HUMAN RIGHTS ARE DENIED - MUCH LIKE BLAKE’S POEM “CHIMNEY SWEEPERS” - WHERE CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS FOUR/FIVE WERE FORCED TO CRAWL DOWN DANGEROUSLY NARROW CHIMNEYS TO CLEAN THE SOOT OUT.
DUE: APRIL 2, 2008
MRS. FRIESZ - WILL TEACH - BURNS - BLAKE!
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GROUP PROJECT TASK: Groups (2-3) will choose a poet and research/print out the biography (cite) and information about the poem printout/(cite) selected to teach to the class. Students will type the poem (double-spaced) printing a copy for each student (#) in the class. The Master Copy used to teach to the class will be annotated and turned in to Mrs. Friesz at the end of the presentation, along with the typed Biography and works cited. The poet’s biography should be covered with at least one outside source (not text) with a link from the poet’s life to the poem. The poem must be neatly annotated for: Frame, Rhyme, Meter, Five Literary Elements; Climax (Turn), Tone, and Theme. A visual should correctly reflect the imagery of the poem creatively. A Works Cited is required with mininum of two entries (the poem and poet research - double spaced in alphabetical order. No works cited = equals a zero. IF PRESENTATORS ARE NOT PRESENT, THEY WILL NOT RECEIVE A GRADE. DO NOT BE TARDY OR ABSENT.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) - “FATHER OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD”- READ: PAGES 656-673.
THE LUCY POEMS: “STRANGE FITS OF PASSIONS HAVE I KNOWN” 663-664; “SHE DWELT AMONG THE UNTRODDEN WAYS” - 664; “A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL” 664-665; THEN, “COMPOSED UPON WESTMINISTER BRIDGE” 669-670; AND “THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US” 671-673. (MEDITATIVE POEM).
ROMANTIC CONNECTION: “SIMPLE DELIGHT IN THE NATURE OF THE EXPERIENCE ITSELF AND IN THE MIND’S CAPACITY TO SHAPE EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE INTO SOMETHING LASTING AND POETIC (“WILLIAM” 656).
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ALEXANDER PUSHKIN (RUSSIAN)-(1799-1837) - “THE RUSSIAN SHAKESPEARE.”
PAGES 674-677. “I HAVE VISITED AGAIN.” (METAPHORIC PERSONIFICATION - “GREEN CHILDREN” - YOUNG PINE TREES).
ROMANTIC CONNECTION: USES NATURE TO EXPLAIN COMPLEX FEELING - THROUGH AND IDEALISTIC REFLECTION (NOSTALGIA).
WHAT KIND OF A TREE DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD BE?
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834) - “HE LEFT THE UNIVERSITY IN 1794 WITHOUT A DEGREE BUT WITH A COMMITMENT TO A UTOPIAN COLONY IN AMERICA. THE EXPERIMENT NEVER MATERIALIZED…” (“SAMUEL” 78).
READ: 678-707, “KUBLA KHAN”; AND “THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER.”
(ALLEGORY) -“ALBATROSS” - METAPHORIC SYMBOL FOR LOSS OF SELF-RESPECT AND GUILT. The lines: “ABOUT/ABOUT, IN REEL AND ROUT/THE DEATH-FIRE DANCED AT NIGHT;/THE WATER, LIKE A WITCH’S OILS/BURNT GREEN, AND BLUE AND WHITE” (COLERIDGE PART II: L127-130) ARE A LITERARY ALLUSION TO THE “WEIRD SISTERS” in WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH.
ROMANTIC CONNECTIONS: IMAGINATION: (LITERARY BALLAD - SONGLIKE POEM). GOTHIC- “gloomy setting with an atmosphere of terror and mystery” (“Gothic” 1194).
Did you see the film The Pirates of the Caribbean - “The Curse of the Black Pearl”?? - If so, you might recognize Coleridge’s Ghost Mariners.
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GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1834). “AN IRRESISTIBLE BAD BOY: THE BYRONIC HERO” - “MAD, BAD, AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW, SAYS LADY CAROLINE LAMB, SPEAKING OF GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON” (HENRY 632).
READ: 710-725, “SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY”; “DON JUAN”; AND “FROM CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE, CANTO IV.” (APOSTROPHE- “SPEAKER ADDRESSES AN ABSENT OR DEAD PERSON, AN ABSTRACT QUALITY, OR SOMETHING NONHUMAN AS IF IT WERE PRESENT AND CAPABLE OF RESPONDING” (“APOSTROPHE” 1189) - TONE (SATIRE).
ROMANTIC CONNECTION: TIMELESS ARCHETYPE - DON JUAN REVEALS MAN’S NEED TO “QUEST FOR BEAUTY” - AND IDEALIZES THE INNOCENT AND HANDSOME YOUNG MAN’S ADVENTURES, THROUGH SATIRE, WTIH THE USE OF “OTTAVA RIMA” - (AN EIGHT-LINE STANZA FORM).
Byronic Heroes: Marlon Brando - James Dean - Johnny Depp - just to name a few!
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Read: “Women Writers in the Romantic Period” - pages 726 - 728.
Mary Wollstonecraft writes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) - Mary Shelley’s mother; Jane Austen (1775-1817), published her novels i.e, Pride and Prejudice, etc., anonymously; and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) whose Gothic tale - Frankenstein “creates a monstrous, motherless creation, which examines her own orphaned condition; in addition, she vents her anger and violence, which was considered unfeminine in her day” (“Mary” 728).
CAN YOU NAME OTHER WOMEN WRITERS FROM THIS PERIOD AND THEIR WORKS?
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TEACHER HANDOUT PROVIDED: “OZYMANDIAS” - SHELLEY AND THE PARODY POEM “OZYMANDIAS REVISITED” - MORRIS BISHOP.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)- “believed that human thought and expression had the power to change life for the better” (Percy” 729).
READ: 729-741: “OZYMANDIAS;” TO INCLUDE “A GLIMPSE OF AN ANTIQUE LAND” (PAGE 733); “TO A SKYLARK” (HEARING THE MUSIC) - PAGES 739-742. (ALLITERATION, ONOMATOPOEIA, ASSONANCE, AND RHYME).
ROMANTIC CONNECTION: THE POET IS INSPIRED BY HIS CONNECTION TO NATURE AND IDEALIZES THE PURITY OF NATURE WTIH HOPE THAT MAN WILL RESPECT AND CONNECT TO ITS PERFECTION AND TIMELINESS.
HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF SOMEONE PLUNDERED YOUR FAMILY’S HOME, STOLE NATIONAL TREASURES, OR DUG UP AMERICAN HEROES - LEADERS, AND USED THEIR BODIES TO DECORATE THEIR HOMES?
READ: FINDING COMMON GROUND: 744 - “JADE FLOWER PALACE” - TU FU (755 A.D.) TRANSLATED BY KENNETH REXROTH.
“IN A 755 REBELLION THAT TU FU WITNESSED, 36 MILLION OF CHINA’S 53 MILLION PEOPLE WERE KILLED OR DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES. HIS OWN SON DIED OF STARVATION. DURING THIS PERIOD, TU FU WROTE “JADE FLOWER PALACE” (“BACKGROUND” 744).
TASK: WRITE A POEM (8-20) LINES FROM RESEARCH ON A GLOBAL TOPIC THAT REFLECTS SOCIETY’S FAILURE TO SHOW COMPASSION, ABUSE OF AUTHORITY, OR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE LIVES OF THE INNOCENT. (RESEARCH ASSIGNED EARLIER).
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE OLYMPICS BEING HELD IN CHINA THIS SUMMER?
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JOHN KEATS (1795 - 1821) “THE STARK SADNESS OF KEAT’S LIFE HEIGHTENS OUR AWARENESS OF THE QUALITIES OF HIS POEMS - NOT BLEAK, SUBDUED, OR HEAVY WITH RESIGNATIONS, BUT RICK IN SENSUOUS DETAIL AND EXCITING REPRESENTATIONS ON INTENSE EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE” (“JOHN 734).
READ: 745-763 - “WHEN I HAVE FEARS”- 748-749; “LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI” - 750-753; “ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE” - 755-759; “ODE ON A GRECIAN URN” - 761-763. (ODE- “A COMPLEX, GENERALLY LONG LYRIC POEM ON A SERIOUS SUBJECT” (“ODE” 1198). (SYNAESTHESIA). (IMAGERY).
ROMANTIC CONNECTION: OVERFLOW OF EMOTIONS THAT CAPTURE THE ESSENCE AND PURITY OF THE EXPERIENCE.
QUESTION: HAVE YOU EVER FELT LIKE YOU WERE IN A DREAM AND COULD NOT WAKE UP - OR WERE MESMERIZED BY SOMETHING?
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E.E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962) Modern Poet. “Cummings’s poems celebrates the pure nonrational creativity of nature that eludes all attempts to categorize or explain it” (“Connections” 758).
Read 758-759. “O sweet spontaneous”
Read 213 “since feeling is first”
(Metaphor) (Synthesizing) (Diction) (Grammar)
Romantic Connections: You tell Me!
How can Spring be earth’s answer to philosophers and scientists?
How does Cumming’s poems compare to Keat’s poem “Ode to a Nightingale”?
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