REBELLION AGAINST LIMITATIONS

ROMANTICISM

 

Students will analyze the natural human tendency to rebel against rigid social confines and structure.

 

Pre-Romantic

William Blake: "The Fly"; "The Sick Rose";  "The Chimney Sweeper," from Songs of Innocence; "The Chimney Sweeper," from Songs of Experience

 

Three Poetic Schools

1. Lake School Poets - Wordsworth:  "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge," "The World is too Much With Us," and "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"; Dorothy Wordsworth - from Grasmere Journals; Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "Kubla Khan" and "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

2. Cockney School - John Keats: "Ode to a Grecian Urn"

3. Satanic School - Lord Byron: "She Walks in Beauty Like the Night"; Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Ozymandias"

 

Links for Further Study

• Overview of Romaniticsm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV_q45Otdic

• "The Romantics - Liberty, " BBC Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLwRXlSgiSQ

• Coleridge's "Kubla Khan," Benedict Cumberpatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7mEV9VUgtQ

• Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," read by Richard Burton: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLH6-QL4rpzQ2G89zBEdDgOOg9QEB78Gf

• Summary "Rime of the Ancient Mariner": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTgiMONfHbQ

 

 

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Frankenstein

 

Links for further study

• Review of the Gothic: http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/videos/the-gothic

• Frankenstein, the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4IvYnhmeL0

 

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