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Romantic Notes Mrs. Hurd John S. Battle High School Blake – “The Lamb” • From Songs of Innocence – a child’s perspective • Lamb = Jesus • God made the delicate, gentle lamb • Optimistic view of life – almost like a nursery rhyme Blake - “The Tyger” • • • • • From Songs of Experience Adult perspective (realistic) Tyger = fear God made the carnivorous animal Blacksmith imagery – anvil, fire, hammer, chain, furnace • God made the gentle lamb and the ferocious tiger Blake -“The Chimney Sweeper” - SOI • Narrator is a chimney sweeper • Tom Dacre – gets hair shaved but narrator assures him • Dream = locked in coffins of black (soot, experience, narrow, spoiling of innocence) • Angel rescues them, play and wash soot off in river • -use religion to reinforce obedience • “doing duty and not harmed “The Chimney Sweeper” – SOE • Child weeping in the snow • Parents = praying in church • Pretending to be happy – people take advantage of him • People attempt to “make a Heaven” of their misery Byron - “She Walks in Beauty” • • • • Girl = black dress because she is in mourning Simile – girl is like the night *he compliments her grace, beauty, purity *she has a peaceful mind, innocent heart Byron -“Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” • • • • • • • • Byronic Hero – conflicted hero has a flaw, rebel Addresses the ocean Apostrophe – address something nonexistent “I love not man less, but nature more” – has a deep respect and admiration for nature Poem is at the end of Harold’s life Religious journey ends with nature Fear of nature – he felt like Ocean’s child Life ends, but nature continues Keats - “Chapman’s Homer” • Chapman – translated Homer • Chapman has given him a new perspective of the text • Helps Keats “discover” Homer Keats - “When I Have Fears” • Keats – awareness of death • -had so much to say, but not the time to say it • -He worries about never looking upon his love’s face again • -Love and fame fade when compared to losing her love Keats - “Ode to a Nightingale” • Synethesia – combining of senses – “tasting green” • Night = near death, morning = death (new day/new beginning) • Nightingale- sings at night, when morning comes, it stops (like Keats) • Stanza 3 –“Why stay here where beauty fades, men complain, and people despair?” • Song – Keats is carried away • Fly not with drink but with poetry • Nightingale’s song encourages him to embrace death (embrace nature/God) • Keats says “goodbye” to night and nightingale • Does not know if it was real or imagined – “Do I wake or sleep?” Keats - “Ode to a Grecian Urn” • • • • • Art – eternal (frozen in time) Urn does not exist, but Keats imagined it Scene or urn – rural -cows walking, pipers playing, lovers in a near-kiss Art = happy because it will remain untraished by age • “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” • Art – is it truth? Honesty? Shelley – “Ode to the West Wind” • Personification – Wind addressed (Apostrophe) • Destroyer and Preserver – W.W. brings autumn, which ushers in winter. • Winter brings in Spring (nature). Wing brings winter but eventually spring • -Like the wind, Shelley wants his words to “blow over the universe” • Words = powerful like the wind Shelley - “Ozymandias” • Trunk of an old statue (pharaoh) • -statue has a cold, sneering look • -statue reads “King of kings” and advises people to fear the pharaoh • Power and influence FADE with time • Power/tyranny will die with the leader • All that’s left is a broken statue. Wordsworth – “Tintern Abbey” • Poetry = spontaneously overflow of feelings / humane = “for everyone” • Tintern Abbey – old abandoned church in the mountains • -has been 5 years since his last visit • -with his sister Dorothy • Returns in his mind to the Abbey when he’s in “lonely rooms” in the city (thought is a comfort for him) • In youth, Wordsworth was drawn to nature’s beauty only (lines 88-90) • As an adult, Wordsworth feels a deeper meaning (a “spirit”) • -Abbey – holy, religious experience Wordsworth - “Westminster Bridge” • About London – Wordsworth usually does not admire the city (dirty) • At dawn, the town is beautiful • City = majestic • Smokeless air = no pollution • Silent, still city Wordsworth - “The World is Too Much With Us” • We ignore nature. We don’t deserve it. We “lay waste” our powers and ignore the great things that nature has to offer • “I’d rather be a pagan, than ignore nature” (which represents God) Coleridge - “Kubla Khan” • Xanadu – “Heaven” • Pleasure dome – has forests, fertile ground, sunny (floating) • -Then beneath it is a turbulent sea, women wailing, pieces flung form fountain • Xanadu = Heaven Sea = Hell • Men are fragile, in a precarious state. They can tip into the sea from Xanadu at any moment