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LIT 242 Roadmap: Weeks 10/11
This week: Module 5: The Romantics (1785-1832). We will spend 2 weeks in this
module.
This document contains 4 sections: Overview, Readings, Resources, and
Responsibilities
NOTE: To access hyperlinks in this document, you might need to download it.
Conversely, you can access all links directly through the Content Module.
Overview
Please read British Romanticism.
Please view Introduction to the Romantic Movement and History of Ideas: Romanticism
WebMuseum: Paris characterizes the Romantic Movement this way:
Artistic and intellectual movement that originated in the late 18th century
and stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom from classical
correctness in art forms, and rebellion against social conventions.
Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the
imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the
transcendental.
Among the characteristic attitudes of Romanticism were the following: a
deepened appreciation of the beauties of nature; a general exaltation of emotion
over reason and of the senses over intellect; a turning in upon the self and a
heightened examination of human personality and its moods and mental
potentialities; a preoccupation with the genius, the hero, and the exceptional
figure in general, and a focus on his passions and inner struggles; a new view of
the artist as a supremely individual creator, whose creative spirit is more
important than strict adherence to formal rules and traditional procedures; an
emphasis upon imagination as a gateway to transcendent experience and
spiritual truth; an obsessive interest in folk culture, national and ethnic cultural
origins, and the medieval era; and a predilection for the exotic, the remote, the
mysterious, the weird, the occult, the monstrous, the diseased, and even the
satanic.
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Readings
1. William Blake (illustrator & poet)
• The Lamb & The Tyger (50; 58-59)
• Nurse’s Song (Innocence and Experience) (53; 57) A nurse in this context is
not a medical professional. Rather, this is a word in the past used to describe
a nanny or child caregiver. Watch how Blake characterizes life in his poetry
from Songs of Innocence, and how that changes as we grow older and start
singing Songs of Experience.
• A Poison Tree (62-63)
• London (61)
2. William Wordsworth
• Three Years She Grew (149-150)
• I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (177-178)
• My Heart Leaps Up (178)
3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The Pains of Sleep (296-297): powerful piece about addiction
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4. Lord Byron
• She Walks in Beauty (318)
• When We Two Parted See page 2. (319-320)
5. Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Mutability (379)
• England in 1819 (387)
• Ode to the West Wind (388-390)
6. John Keats: Keats is a love him or hate him type of poet. Regardless, he’s one of
the greats. His poems don’t invite you to go into deep analysis (although many
have); rather, experience the lush, sensual language and dreamy imagery.
• When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be (476)
• Bright Star (482-483)
• Ode on a Grecian Urn (494-496)
• Ode To Autumn (515-516)
7. Mary Wollstonecraft (mother of Mary Shelley, who was Percy’s wife and the
writer of Frankenstein)
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (95-124) You don’t need to read all of
this! Choose a chapter and skim what she has to say.
Resources
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British Literature Unit Preview 4, The Romantic Period: YouTube
A Poison Tree, by William Blake – YouTube
The Lamb, William Blake, song and poem lyrics – YouTube
“Daffodils” (I wandered lonely as a cloud), read by Jeremy Irons
My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth – Poetry Reading – YouTube
“Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (read by Tom O’Bedlam) YouTube
7. To Autumn- Ben Whishaw – YouTube Ben Whishaw played John Keats in the
2009 film Bright Star. I show this to my f2f students who love it! Watch it if you
ever have the chance. You can see some scenes here. So beautiful Bright Star:
John Keats/Fanny Brawne – YouTube Fanny was John’s fianceé.
8. Rupert Penry-Jones Reads “Bright Star” by John Keats (YouTube)
9. The Powerful and Inspiring Mary Wollstonecraft – YouTube
10. Analysis: Taylor Swift’s “New Romantics”
Responsibilities
1. You will have 2 quizzes on The Romantics. Quiz 10 will cover Overview Material
(see p. 1), Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge. Quiz 11 will cover Overview
Material (see p. 1), Lord Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Mary Wollstonecraft.
2. Complete 2 Discussions (1 for Week 10, 1 for Week 11)
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Weekly Discussions (60 points)
Weeks 10 & 11 Discussions
For this module, in the next 2 weeks you will choose 2 pieces from the Romantic Period.
Each week, no more than 2 students may choose the same poem! If you know the
choice you want, reserve in the Subject line.
It is your responsibility to monitor the Discussion.
If you are analyzing a poem another student has talked about in either week, it is your
responsibility to ensure you say something new, not just restate what has already been
said, You must add original ideas to the discussion to earn credit. Do not recycle.
1. Week 10 Question (30 points) Review p. 1 of this document, Overview. Learn
some characteristics of Romanticism. You have 4 sites of information there. Find
a poem (or chapter from A Vindication of the Rights of Women) that you feel
represents at least 2 characteristics of this literary era. Where do you see these
trends in your poem (or chapter)? How are these ideas reflected in your poem or
chapter? You should have 1 paragraph on each Romantic characteristic you
see in your poem or chapter (2 ¶s total). Be sure to give evidence/lines from
the piece you choose to show how the Romantic ideal shows itself in the poem or
chapter. You should also ask a question to us about your poem or chapter.
You questions work very well.
2. Week 11 Question (30 points) Choose another piece, different from the one
you chose last week for Question 1. (The list is on pp. 2-3.)
• In your first ¶: You do not have to paraphrase it line by line (although you
may), but tell us what you think it is about. What are some lines from it that
you especially like?
• In your second ¶: The Romantics (the first Hippies!) would say we should
never analyze poetry: we should let it move us, let it make us feel. So, how
do you feel? What in your real life experience can you connect it to?
• Ask us a question about your poem/chapter.
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