Summary Engels literatuur Romantic period, Poetry of the great war en Modern poetry
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English literature
The Romantic period (1800-1830)
Stability was lost due to social change and growing unrest.
Because of the industrial revolution the agricultural nation turned into a industrial one.
Long hours + miserable working conditions
Wealth + prosperity
The ideals of freedom, equality and abolition of all class distinctions appealed strongly to young
people.
This is characteristic of much romantic poetry:
Some of the greatest nature poetry in the English language.
This led to an idealization of those people who live closest to it.
Disappointment with the present often inspired a renewed interest on an idealized past.
The anti-intellectual attitude is reflected in the popularity of supernatural elements.
A special place in the Romantic imagination is occupied by the child.
Parallel tot he escape in time we often fin dan escape in place.
Daffodils – William Wordsworth
He gets happy of the daffodils.
He describes them as something quite moveable; dancing flowers.
He couldn’t stop gazing at them and didn’t realise what he got from it.
Everytime when he is not in a good mood he thinks back tot his field of daffodils.
Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An ancient Mariner stops one of three man who are on their way to a wedding. The man asks why
the mariner had stopped him. The mariner grabs the guest and starts telling a story. The guest has no
choise and has to listen.
The ship was just leaving. Everything was fine. Some days go by.
Meanwhile the party of the wedding starts and the guest can’t go because he has to listen tot he
mariner.
The ship moves forward as if it’s being chased by an enimy. There’s a storm. They get to a place with
only ice, there are no animals or people. Only an Albatross flew by. And suddently the ice began to
move away. They get set free and can continue their journey. The Albatross goes along, he brings
good luck.
The mariner doesn’t look happy because he accidently had shot the Albatross. Again days go by and
the weather is good, but there’s nog bird in de sky. The other people on the ship seem to find the
mariner not that nice anymore, because he killed the lucky bird.
, Then there is fog and mist. Everybody on the ship accuses the mariner. And then they come into a
new area where the wind goes down. Now they’re non moving on the middle of the sea. They stand
still like a painting, and again days go by.
Of course they get thirsty. The sea becomes dry and slimy. When it’s night the sea becomes green,
blue and white. And a spirit has been following them since they left the ice.
Because they’re so thirsty they don’t speak anymore. All the mariner gets are evil looks. They hang
the albatross on the mariner his neck as penance.
Somebody appears. She is the nigtmare life-in-death. There’s a kind of game going on; the life and
dead against the naked hulk and they’re doing something with dices. It’s night and there is a weird
ambiance.
Then everybody dies except the ancient mariner.
The wedding guest is scared of the mariner because he thinks that the mariner is a ghost.
The mariner goes back to his story.
He was all alone on sea and sat between the dead bodies. The sea was rotten with weird creatures.
The mariner wanted to pray but he couldn’t. Then he sees the beauty of the beasts in the sea. He
blesses the creatures. As a result of that he can pray again.
The Albatross falls of his neck into the sea and sinks. The mariner can now sleep again.
He dreams that it’s raining and when he wakes up it is. He can drink the rain water. But then he
actually wakes up. And there is wind again, so now he can sail home. The man on the ship help to get
the ship moving, but they’re still dead. Their souls are set free.
Two angels are talking about the mariner. One says that he is doing penance and he will be.
The mariner sees land. He sees a boat appear. He was very happy. It’s a hermit. He hopes that the
hermit can shrieve his soul. Because the mariner could tell the story to the hermit he was relieved.
Now he needs to tell this story over and over again, otherwise the pain will come back again. The
mariner roams and can see when someone needs to hear his story.
The mariner says goodbye to the weddingguests. His conclusion is that people who love god’s
crations can pray well.
The weddingguest leaves. When he wakes up the next morning he is more sad but also has become
wiser.
Songs of Innocence – The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake
Songs of Innocence is a book with a collection of poems. This is the poem The Chimney Sweeper. For
sweeping chimney’s small people were required, so the chimney sweepers were often very young
and still children. It was a very dangerous job to do.
There is a boy of whom the mother died and his father sold hi mto a chimney sweepers company.
Tom Dacre (another boy) cries when his hair has to be shaved. That is because than there can’t come
soot in the little boy’s hair.
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