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- 1Describe the role of the imagination, spontaneity, and the emotions in Romantic poetry.Romanticism is an international artistic and philosophical movement that begins in England and in Germany in the 1770s and continues till the end of the 19th century. In this age of revolutions like the American (1775) and the French (1789), Romanticism means the emphasis on individualism, imagination, and emotion, and a reaction against the rational and scientific approach to nature. Therefore, emotions are considered the source of intense aesthetic pleasure.
The contemplation of nature like mountainous scenery, temped tossed seascapes, and antique and exotic urban spaces, becomes a source of the aesthetic pleasure. Danger, pain, and horror can be perceived as sources of delight too.
Within the aesthetic, there is a category known as the sublime. It is defined as an experience that produces the strongest emotions around the contemplation of wild nature, mounting cathedral, castles, or antique ruins. This sublime is considered to be at the heart of the Romantic spirit, as it works as a stimulus of the creative imagination. - 2Explain the significance of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience (1794) for the newEnglish poetry.William Blake developed a poetry and a mythology of his own, especially in his later books, inspired by earlier poets like Dante and Milton. Nevertheless, he is mainly known for his first two poetry books: Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). These two works defined what he called “two contrary states of the human soul”. Innocence is the pure state incarnated by childhood, whereas experience becomes the calculating form of human reasons as embodied by education, institutions, political power, and violence.
- 3How is Wordsworth’s poetic ideal defined in the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads? What poetic values did he emphasize in opposition to Augustan poetry?In the Preface to his work “Lyrical Ballads”, published in 1798, Wordsworth defined the ideal poetic as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling that takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.
In opposition to Augustan poetry, he defines the poet as a man speaking to a man: a man endued (dotado) with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul. - 4Describe the main features of the poetry of John Keats as exemplified by his ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’.John Keats was interested in the irrational, mysterious and supernatural world of the distant past, therefore, these interests were reflected in his works. He was also interested in the search for lasting beauty and happiness in a world where everything dies in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”. It is the artistic image of the urn that shows art and artistic creation, which can make things permanent, and that poetry keeps alive human feelings and ideas. Therefore, John Keat created a permanent art object in which the figures continue to live.
- 5Shelley wrote that ‘poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world’: how does that sentence relate to the poetic principles of the second generation of Romantic poets?In “The defence of Poetry”, Shelley claim that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”, which means that art dictates the law of our existence and that simply by virtue of composing verse they exert some exemplary moral power, in a vague unthreatening way.
- 6Coleridge calls ‘Kubla Khan’ a ‘fragment’, more interesting as a ‘psychological curiosity’ than for its intrinsic poetic merit? What suggests that the poem is a fragment? What goes against that affirmation?
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- filologia inglesa Flashcards on tema 4, created by Marta Naveira on 26/05/2024.
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