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The Romantic Period (1789-1850)
The Romantic Period was inspired by new ideas focusing on reason and order. The romantic age was focused on love but it was no the only meaning it was also inspired by nature. Being a powerful cultural movement it dominated Europe throughout the 1800 hundreds. Represented by three big ideas the Stirrings of Romanticism, nature and the Imagination, and the quest for truth and Beauty. William Bake was one of the romantics in this era, he believed that imagination held the secrets of the universe not science. Romanticism was emphasized on feelings and imagination rather than intellect and reason, the romantics of the era became sympathized with the revolution but eventually they became disillusioned with the violence shown during the french Revolution. The industrial revolution also happened during this era. The Quest for truth and beauty was a second generation of romantics becoming champions of the artist and the rebel also as they saw beauty in the middle ages. |
The Victorian Period (1850-1900)
The Victorian Period brought the Industrial revolution one of the changes Britain went through, as it was the world's leading country. Divided into three ideas the first one being Optimism and the Belief in Progress Britain reached t its highest political and economic power. The instrument for good as many of the British governors thought it was was powered by one of the Industrial Revolution's inventions....steam, this revolutionizing life and the way people lived and how they traveled. |
I. Analyzing a poem through annotation
The poems of the Romantic days
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An Analysis of John Keats’ “The Sonnet II to; ** ”
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 Keats’ “Sonnet II to; **,” 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 doubt, comparing, and likeness, pervade the poem in the poet’s attempt to convey the theme that not doubting about yourself nor comparing with others to decide whether going for that something you like or not. 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 “The Sonnet II;to ***” reveals himself (or herself) to be . The occasion is a normal day, and the time is early nightfall. The speaker’s audience is a woman and her purpose involves the speaker attempting to declare his love for her. The man struggling with his love for the woman acts as the subject of the poem. To paraphrase the events of the poem, one might say that a man is going to get what he wants despite the facts that he is not either a knight, shepard, and a man’s fair form. In terms of tone, the poem begins with a feeling of doubtfulness or a sympathizing mood or atmosphere but ends up hopeful and confident. Some diction that suggests this involves the speaker first using the words “gather” “sweeter,” “spells,” and “incantation,” but then later in the poem by employing words like “sweet,” “honied,” “roses,” “taste,” and incantation, the speaker reveals a more confident tone by the end. This suggests that the speaker has gathered the courage to go to the woman he is in love with and declare his love for her.. The speaker’s attitude also becomes apparent in the poem. The speaker’s tone first reveals a unconfident attitude with the use of the word “no,” but his attitude becomes confident with the use of diction like “spells” and “taste.” 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 get a sense of his intentions with words and phrases like “i will taste that dew” and “steep’d in dew rich to intoxication” he also uses personification as a way of giving the moon a human characteristic meaning that he is going to wait till night, specifically with phrases like “moon her pallid face discloses.” Finally, the poet uses symbolism to give deeper meaning to the poem by having the dew and roses representing what he is attracted by . Thus, the devices used by the author give the reader the idea that people can find love where they thought it was, they just have to be confident and try getting it. Essentially, this poem is about the man developing courage to declare his love for the woman he loves. To create this meaning, the author uses numerous devices of rhetoric and the effects of tone to create an atmosphere that changes from doubtful to confident. 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
Sonnet II.To **** Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs Be echoed swiftly through that ivory shell Thine ear, and find thy gentle heart; so well Would passion arm me for the enterprize: But ah! I am no knight whose foeman dies; No cuirass glistens on my bosom's swell; I am no happy shepherd of the dell Whose lips have trembled with a maiden's eyes. Yet must I doat upon thee,--call thee sweet, Sweeter by far than Hybla's honied roses When steep'd in dew rich to intoxication. Ah! I will taste that dew, for me 'tis meet, And when the moon her pallid face discloses, I'll gather some by spells, and incantation. John Keats |
Call of Duty
Bang bang all day, bang bang all night beating and killing noobs, playing until i damage my sight, hiding somewhere to heal my wounds, calling in my streaks, getting quads with every gun, run and shoot non-stop, Call of Duty sure is fun. Sometimes the lag, the noobs, the mods sometimes the bad aim, the guns, the gods make the game very unplayable and not so cool leaving you with undesired rage, looking like a fool, but at the end KDR wont matter, it is just a game is not like you are getting some kind of fame, but definitely in the scoreboard YoLo its Ali a won’t be so lame. |
III. Final Project: The original poem |
V. My poem
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