The Romantic Period (1789-1850)romanticism was inspired by the beauty and the power of nature and was shaped by valuing feeling and the imagination. three big ideas that flowed through this era are The Stirrings of Romanticism, Nature and the Imagination, The Quest for Truth and Beauty. the early romantics such as the British poet and artist William Blake valued imagination and feeling over intellect and reason Blake braised the imaginations irrational horrors, leaving that imagination not science held the secrets of the universe. the dreams of individual freedom that moved the first generation of romantics like William Wordsworth and Samuel Tailor Courage. The Stirrings of Romanticism, New cultural out look.
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The Victorian Period (1850-1900)during the 64 year reign of queen Victoria Briton experienced unrepresented change. the Victorian age brought revolutionary shifts and social thought and ushered in the industrial revolution. Briton's desire for innovation was clearly evident at the first world's fare in London it was an awesome display of technology and industrial modernization from around the world its grand display had a staggering impact and symbolized Briton's wealth, optimism, and position as the world's leading nation.
three big ideas that helped shape the literature of Victorian age
During the 19th century Briton reached the height of it's political and economic power. The British believed they had a god given duty to civilized the world and they did so with a vengeance. Railroads and steam ships revolutionized Victorian life |
An Analysis of William Blake’s “Love’s Secret” By: Alex Alfaro & Matthew Rivas
Poems in English literature, particularly those from the Romantic Age, contain a variety of heavily-used rhetorical devices in order to convey the meaning intended by the author. In Blake’s “Love’s Secret,” for instance, the reader finds a number of devices that aid in conveying the tone and, ultimately, the theme of this poem. Concepts such as love, silence, departion, and fear pervade the poem in the poet’s attempt to convey the theme that sometimes it’s better to loved and lost rather than to not love at all. To begin to understand a poem, one must deal with the basics. These involve knowing general information about the speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, and subject. The speaker of “Love’s Secret” reveals himself (or herself) to be a man confessing his love for someone. The occasion is winter, and the time is early nightfall. The speaker’s audience is a woman he loves and his/her purpose involves watching his loved one go. Love ” acts as the subject of the poem. To paraphrase the events of the poem, one might say that the observer lets his lover know of his feelings and emotions towards her and she departs with a traveler because she did not feel the same way. In terms of tone, the poem begins with a positive and hopeful mood or atmosphere but ends up sad or depressing. Some diction that suggests this involves the speaker first using the words “I,” “my,” but then later in the poem by employing words like “silently,” “invisibly,” the speaker reveals a more sad tone by the end. This suggests that the traveler is like a thief that steals women. The speaker’s attitude also becomes apparent in the poem. The speaker’s tone first reveals a doubtful attitude with the use of the word “trembling,” but his/her attitude becomes negative with the use of diction like “ghastly” and “depart.” The three most significant rhetorical devices that the poet uses to convey the theme in the poem involve the use of imagery, personification, and simile. The poet uses paradox to help the reader understand what it is like not to tell someone their true feelings with words and phrases like “Love that never told can be”. S/he also uses personification as a way of giving human qualities to nature, specifically with phrases like “gentle wind does move silently, invisibly”. Finally, the poet uses symbolism to give deeper meaning to the poem by expressing his feelings. Thus, the devices used by the author give the reader the idea that the speaker is heartbroken because he did not tell his lover how he felt in time. Essentially, this poem is about what happens when you don’t tell someone how you feel. To create this meaning, the author uses numerous devices of rhetoric and the effects of tone to create an atmosphere that changes from love to heartache. As a result, we can see how the use of rhetorical devices and tone give meaning to poetry and other forms of literature. |
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3.) My Poem Composed The Everlasting Memory.
The man sits in the dark room contemplating what he had seen. his wife laying in the snow, the snow gripping her as if it didn’t want her to leave the wind blew and the branches creaked he stared at her laying in the snow. He fell to his knees and touched her skin she was cold the blood from her body turned the snow red it looked as a single red rose in a bush with white roses. He can not forget this sight of his wife and her once peach colored skin turned white as the snow but he also has a memory of his wife when she would dance and sing around the house and her beauty was like a cherry blossom tree in the spring. Her smile brighter than any star in the sky. The man sat there remembering his wife as she was not how she died, as he remembered her while he sat in the dark room; his memories of her a bright light in the dark room. To bring him up from his depths and bring him a smile on his face, his love for his wife was pure and her love him was just as pure as his. He will never forget the happiness his wife and himself shared and he didn’t want to forget for this memory will be forever. BY: Matthew Rivas. |
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