Romantic Literature - Mrs Pinkerton -...
37
Romantic Literature The Romantics, Fireside Poets, and the Dark Romantics
Transcript of Romantic Literature - Mrs Pinkerton -...
Romantic Literature
The Romantics,
Fireside Poets,
and the Dark Romantics
What Romanticism is NOT:
a reaction against
the Age of Reason (Rationalism)
• Romantics believed in ____________ over reason and __________ over fact.
• Looked to the _____ as well as to _______ for guidance and wisdom
• The _______and the ________________ were embraced
• _________ of civilization; rejection of rules
• highly valued the __________ and
_______________
Romanticism was…
IMAGINATION
PAST
EXOTIC
INTUITION
NATURE
SUPERNATURAL
DISTRUST
INDIVIDUAL
NON-CONFORMITY
Origins of Romanticism Started in Germany, spread through Europe and
eventually made its way to the United States
Fulfilled the need for
AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL
INDEPENDENCE from EUROPE
Let’s take a look at some of the authors that put American Literature on the map.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Ancestors lived in Salem during the Witch Trials
- Fascinated with Puritans, faith, and sin. Many of his works reflect this.
- Considered a Dark Romantic
Most well known work:
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Herman Melvillle
• Most well known work: Moby Dick (1851)
the story of Captain Ahab chasing after a big white whale.
Emily Dickinson
She became a recluse in her 20’s and started to dress only in white.
Her poetic genius was not realized in her lifetime. Her poems were published posthumously.
“Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.”
Walt Whitman
Considered the
“quintessential American Poet”
Most famous for his series of poems called Leaves of Grass
Often called the “father of Free Verse”
The Fireside Poets
represent a coming of age
for American Literature
- Wrote poetry that was read around the fire
- Conservative literary style
- Some of the most read and beloved poets
Use FIRE to remember …
F Fantasy
I Idealism & Imagination
R Rejection of Rules
E heightened Emotion & Escapism
The Fireside Poets
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Harvard professor
Popular poet
John Greenleaf Whittier
Quaker
James Russell Lowell
Born to wealth and position
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Poet, physician, unofficial “laureate”
Quick RECALL: 1. Who wrote Moby Dick?
2. Whose poetry was not published until after he/she died?
3. What did Nathaniel Hawthorne write?
4. Who is considered the “quintessential American poet?”
5. What were Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, and Lowell known as? How did they get their name?
What aspect of Romanticism does this represent?
Emphasis on heightened
EMOTION
What aspect of Romanticism does this represent?
Inspired by Nature
What aspect of Romanticism does this represent?
importance of
INDIVIDUALISM
What aspect of Romanticism does this represent?
Use of the
IMAGINATION
What aspect of Romanticism does this represent?
Rejection of rules/
distrust of civilization
So … are you more a Romantic or a Rationalist?
Imaginative
Intuitive
Nature lover
Questions authority
Not afraid to be different
Logical
Values reason
Persuasive
Problem solver
Romantic Art: Bagram Ibatoulline “From the Foundation Up”
Romantic Art: John Quidor “The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane”
The DARK romantics put a darker spin to the Romantic ideals:
• NATURE connected to it in a relational way, decay &
death, rain during times of sorrow ; “playing God” a topic introduced, yet looked down upon. Settings are often old, dilapidated castles/mansions
• Independence through ALIENATION – characters alienate themselves; man seen as prone to sin and self-destruction.
• the SUPERNATURAL – yes, hauntings and magic
famous DARK Romantic Authors
Washington Irving Edgar Allan Poe
Famous works:
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
“Rip Van Winkle”
Famous works:
“The Tell-Tale Heart”
“The Raven”
Literary terms for the Romantic Period:
poetry that refrains from using specific meter patterns or rhyme scheme
FREE VERSE
Literary terms for the Romantic Period:
A word that imitates the sound it represents
onomatopoeia
Literary terms for the Romantic Period:
Sometimes called half rhyme; includes word pairs like lover and brother
or fish and promise
Slant rhyme
Literary terms for the Romantic Period:
a recurring pattern of stressed (accented, or long) and unstressed (unaccented, or short) syllables in lines of a set length. Measured in iambs.
Meter
Literary terms for the Romantic Period:
a short poem consisting of five, usually unrhymed lines containing, respectively, two, four, six, eight, and two syllables
OR any stanza of five lines.
cinquain
Literary terms for the Romantic Period:
A rhyme created by two or more words within the same line of verse.
EX: “In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud”
internal rhyme
Literary terms for the Romantic Period:
From whose eyes a story is told
Point of view
Third person omniscient: a narrator (outside of the action of the story) that is all knowing
Literary terms for the Romantic Period:
A direct address of something not physically present
Apostrophe
Literary terms for the Romantic Period:
the usually humorous play on words as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word
similar in sound
EX: She is a skillful pilot; her career has really taken off.
pun
Literary terms for the Romantic Period:
the use of words that begin with the same sound near one another
as in wild and woolly or a babbling brook
alliteration
Literary terms for the Romantic Period:
recurrence or repetition of consonants especially at the end of stressed syllables
mid-word like little and tattle
or at the ends of words ( like stroke and luck )
consonance
Literary terms for the Romantic Period:
the use of words that have the same or very similar vowel sounds near one another
ex: as the “i” in “rise high in the bright sky”
assonance
Literary terms for the Romantic Period:
Units of two or more lines grouped together in a poem (like a paragraph)
stanza
The End!
Just for fun …
Create a t-shirt design that embraces an aspect of the Romantic Movement.
