The Romantic AgeThe Romantic Period (1789-1832)
The meaning of romantic comes from beauty and nature. Romanticism was a literary movement that swept through virtually every country of Europe, the United States, and Latin America that lasted from about 1750 to 1870. It praised imagination over reason, emotions over logic, and intuition over science making way for a vast body of literature of great sensibility and passion. However, the Romantic Movement did not reach France until 1820's. Romanticism's essential spirit was one of revolt against an established order of things-against precise rules, laws, dogmas, and formulas that characterized Classicism in general and late 18th-century Neoclassicism in particular. William Blake, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman and William Wordsworth were famous Romantic poets. Beethoven and Wagner are some of the famous composers from the Romantic period. Video Source: Literature Launchers. "The Triumph of Romanticism." DVD. Glencoe 2012. |
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The Victorian Period (1832-1900)
Queen Victoria had took over the country for sixty five years and there was a lot of changes happening. The Victorian age lasted twice as long as the Romantic period. Victorian’s had convicting attitudes towards children. Soon people started losing their jobs because it was getting so over populated. An aspect of this period is the large scale expansion of the British imperial power. The period saw a rise of highly idealized notion of what is English it is tied very close to England’s imperial enterprise. Victorian writing saw the rebellion against idealized notions and codes of conduct. The later years of the Victorian saw the rise of the art’s sake movement which contained the social and political goals of Victorian literature. Video Source: Literature Launchers. "The Victorian Age." DVD. Glencoe 2012. |
I. Analyzing a Poem Through Annotation.
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An Analysis of John Keats’s “Fancy”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 Keans’s “Fancy,” 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 temptation,slavery,happy, and fun pervade the poem in the poet’s attempt to convey the theme that with imagination you could be happy and have so much fun, without keeping your imagination to yourself. 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 “Fancy” reveals himself (or herself) to be someone that can’t use their imagination the way they want it to be used it. The occasion is summer, and the time is early in the day. The speaker’s audience is no one and his/her purpose involves having a good time with their imagination. The use of fascination acts as the subject of the poem. To paraphrase the events of the poem, one might say that an observer can’t really hold anything in their mind they would have to let their fancy get the best of it.
In terms of tone, the poem begins with a temptation mood or atmosphere but ends up positive and excited. Some diction that suggests this involves the speaker first using the words “pleasure,”tempted“,excitement” but then later in the poem by employing words like “joy,” “ecstatic,” “happy,” “blessed,” and hope, the speaker reveals a more positive tone by the end. This suggests that Fancy changed her whole imagination because of winter and it had to be caged in and wanted to be summer to be let out. The speaker’s attitude also becomes apparent in the poem. The speaker’s tone first reveals a hopeful attitude with the use of the word “summers joy,” but his/her attitude becomes positive with the use of diction like “happy” and “excitement.” The three most significant rhetorical devices that the poet uses to convey the theme in the poem involve the use of imagery, personification, and symbolism. The poet uses imagery to help the reader gets a feeling of temptation and eagerness with words and phrases like “Autumn red lipp’d fuitage” and “white plump lilies.” S/he also uses personification as a way of giving human qualities to nature, specifically with phrases like “open with the mind’s caged-door”. Finally, the poet uses symbolism to give deeper meaning to the poem by having the fancy represent imagination. Thus, the devices used by the author give the reader the idea that winter needs to go away so we could bring out fancy from its cage. Essentially, this poem is about finding your inner imagination and letting it out. To create this meaning, the author uses numerous devices of rhetoric and the effects of tone to create an atmosphere that change the caged in to being free . As a result, we can see how the use of rhetorical devices and tone give meaning to poetry and other forms of literature. |
II. Analytical Essay
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III. FINAL PROJECT:
The Original Poem
Hold On
Hold on to the things you do
Even if it's not the right things you want to do
Hold on to what you believe
Even if it may be very hard to achieve
Hold on to everything you love
Even if it's from here-in-above
Hold on to the moments that you cherish
Even if you never want them to become perish
Hold on to all the memories
Even when its easier to just let them go in a breeze
My Poem
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