AP English Language and Composition-Romantacism

What are the characteristics of new poetry? (5)

-express the poet’s own feelings

-the poet assumes the voice of a prophet speaking truth

-poetry involves the spontaneous overflow of feelings with the use of imagination

-landscape is endowed with human life, passion, and expressiveness

-the subjects or situtation derive from a common life and human (not nobility)

Sensibility

reliance of emotin than rational thought to lead to truth

Primitivism

primitive people were closer to nature, so they are happier and more perfectly civilized

What are some characterisitics of Romantacism (10)

-sensibility

-primitivism

-the city is a corrupting influence

-the love of nature

-the love of and sympathy for the past especially the Middle Ages

-mysticism

-individualism

-all things eastern (more information, knowledge, and inspirstion)

-Macabre

-blank verse in poetry

Mysticism

anyhting that is odd or strange

Macabre

gothic, ghosts, haunted, and strange events

What is innocence with Blake?

state of acceptance

What is experience with Blake?

state of realization

Common themes in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

-disrespecting nature

-gothic

-mystical

-supernatural

Common themes Blake’s introduction

happiness

child-like

piper and child

making child happy while playing

The Lamb

child-like

innoncence

apostrophe

little lamb=children or Jesus

The Chimeny Sweeper

dark and depressing

children w/o family sweeping chimneys

imagination with future heaven

can not find happiness on Earth

innocence

child abuse and labor

Holy Thursday

wealthy people sponsoring children to appear helpful

children are innocen and are abused with being out line

singing

innocence

connection with nature

nobility truly do not care

Introduction (experience)

poet as prophet

apostrophe in addressing the Earth

darkness

talking a lot about the forces

nature

Earth’s Answer (experience)

questioning

coming up with realizations

sadness

anger

despair and losing hope

Holy Thursday (experience)

same children

depressing

questions with realziation

criticism of nobility

realization with poverty

hopeless

not much hope for happiness

The Tyger (experience)

fear and uncertainity

same creator of Lamb created tyger

lost and passion

Greek mythological references (icarus)

questions but no asnwers

realization of the bad things in the world

blacksmith

London (experience)

city=not place to be

despair

abuse and slavery

widespread depression

orphans, marriages dying, and mothers passing

has a child and can not get married

The Human Abstract (experience)

evil spreading

depression

sadness in the world/what life would be without it

The Chimney Sweeper (experience)

child alone covered in soot

parents are dead

free from misery

realization behind parent's death

happy while in misery

good v evil

We are seven

child and man arguing

strange fits of passion have i known

riding with into the moon being stuck in imagination

thinking about lucy (what if she is dead)

riding on horse

She dwelt among the untrodden ways

describing lucy

in nature

single

innocence

pure

not known

lives in remote place

The world is too much with us

being too consumed in the world

out of tume with nature

nature is extremely powerful (sea and wind)

materialism

It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free

Romantic and nature is connected with God

addressing his child

when we are born-innocent

lose innocence as we get older

evening is a time of reflection and freedom

nature is powerful

something that has to do with his life

imagery

calmness

The solitary reaper

becoming mesmerized in her songs

the common person

singing creative=individual

song is in a different language

I wandered lonely as a cloud

beauty in nature

image of walking and being in nature

daffordials→happiness

mesmerization in nature

pathetic fallacy→something that is acting like human and seems like it

lonely vs crowd

being in nature/observing it (stars and waves)

imagination

nature=healing