World Literature
Who are they??
Victor HugoAnd
William Wordsworth
Quick facts
Born : February 26, 1802At Besançon, France
French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Author, Playwright
Died: May 22, 1885, Paris, France
William Wordsworth
1770-1850
Born: April 7, 1770Wordsworth House,
Cockermouth, Kingdom of Great Britain
Poet
Died: April 23, 1850 (aged 80)
Cumberland, United Kingdom
Victor Marie Hugo1802-1885
Is there any Significant
Story of their life??
Victor Hugo…
Personal Life,Literary Career,
Memorials
PERSONAL LIFE,
• Third son of Joseph Leopold Sigisbert and sophie trebuchet.
• Born in a military family
• His parents seperated when he was 12.
• Passionate supporter of republicanism.
• His wife Adele Foucher. Love affair Juliet Drouet.
• His daughter Leopoldine died w/ her husband .
• His son died at the age of 8.
LITERARY CARREER
• Won a poetry contest.
• Several novels such us. Cromwel Hernani, Had d Island, Hunchback of the notre dame, Les miserables.
• Studied Law bet 1815-1818
• Founded Literary Magazine
• Cedes El poesive Divares
• Hand D Island
• 3 Plays
MEMORIALS
•At the age of 76 he became seriously ill
•His body lay in state beneath the Arc de triomphe bofair burial.
•Buried in the Pantheon
William Wordsworth’s life…
Personal Life,Literary Career,
Memorials
PERSONAL LIFE,
• Son of Johu Wordsworth and Ann Cookson.
•Mother Died when he was only 8. and five years after his father died.
•William has 3 brothers and sister Dorothy.
• Fell in love to Annette Vallon & bore him a daughter named Caroline.
•Married to Mary Hutchman
LITERARY CARREER
•with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
• Lyric Ballad.
•The prelude •An evening walk & Descriptive
Sketches.
•Appointed British poet Laureate
MEMORIALS
• Died in 1850 at the age of 80
Victor Hugo and William Wordsworth are..
1. Both Romantic Writer2. Both famous throughout the world3. both supporters of a revolution
Romanticsm/ Romantic Period(era)
• Artistic Literary and intellectual movement that originated in Europe.
• “Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”
• Love for nature, peace, freedom etc.
Is devoted in expressing his political and social beliefs.
But why???
Victor Hugo
Is developed in his writing a deep love for nature
Because of ???
William Wordsworth
What is their Famous Masterpiece??
The Expiation
What is the story behind the poem??
Victor Hugo
Term: Atoning for a sinSuffering Punishment for an offense or crime,
Long tragic retreat of Napoleon Bonaparte
Grand Army ..
France Vs. Russia
Strategy
Fall of the French Army
1.Constantly attacked by Russian snipers.
2. Harsh Russian winter3. Inadequate Clothing and food.
4. Frostbite
Defeat and exile of Napoleon Bonaparte
Ode; Intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood
What is the story behind the poem??
William Wordsworth
Term: Ode - Lyric PoemIntimation - indirect suggestion or hint, announcementImmortality- unending existencerecollection – memory that which is remembered.
Stanza I. - Declares nature appeared mystical to life.II. - Confesses that natural object are still visible.III. - Says that he is determine to be depressed because It will
mar the beauty of nature.IV. - Declare it would not be right if he determined aloof in
that season.V. - Highly SignificantVI. - Turns Philosophical VII. - foresees the rest of his life.VIII. - Calls the child a philosopher.IX. - The longest in the poem.X. - Speaks to the creatures.XI. -Accepts that nature gives support to everything in his life.
Form and Analysis
of the poem
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Reported by: Roxanne Tiffany P. Dotillos
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