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1. Longing for the past...things were better years ago. (Wordsworth is THE poet of nostalgia)
2. Written in the "real language of men."
3.Wacked out turn...summons the reader. (Think differently! says Wordsworth)*Possible connection of Wollstonecraft- "Apologetic" address to the reader. |
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| Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
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*Possible connection with "Simon Lee"- "Apologetic" address to the reader.
1. Wollstonecraft's "experiments in living"-She dared to live unconventionally.
2. "As a philosopher, I read with indignation the plausible epithets which men use to soften their insults; and, as a moralist, I ask what is meant by such heterogeneous associations, as fair defects, amiable weaknesses, &c.?"
2. How can we change education without changing CULTURE?
3. What she opposes:
common sense, beauty (it is a prison)
"natural" things
*LOVE
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1. Mythological echoes-both traditional and invented.
2. Blake is a philosopher (as Wollstonecraft calls herself)
3. What is the meaning of life?
4. What is the connection between sexuality and death?
5. The Vales of Har=State of Innoncence
Thel confronts death(possibly sexuality) and runs, terrified by what she finds. |
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| "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" |
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1. Wordsworth=Nature poet/THE Romanticist.
Also>Loss, mourning, nostalgia, memory, desire.
2. Perhaps she is so cherished because she was, to him, a special treasure; undiscovered by anyone else. She is a secret he is happy to keep.
3. "A violet by a mossy stone/ Half hidden from the eye!/ --Fair as a star, when only one/ Is shining in the sky.
She lived unknown, and few could know/ When Lucy ceased to be;/ But she is in her grave, and, oh,/ The difference to me!" |
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1. On this single day, he is disguised WITH INTENT.
2. It's like the bower of bliss--He is AROUSED by virginity.
3. Language of rape throughout.
4. The turn...Are the last lines advice or a threat? "Then dearest Maiden, move along these shades/ In gentleness of heart; with gentle hand/ Touch--for there is a spirit in the woods."
5. *Like Book of Thel in that it details the wretchedness of the departure from innocence, at least from the Maiden's prespective..Interesting that the male voice experiences satisfaction while the woman faces destruction.
*What would Wollstonecraft say about this? Perhaps this is why she preaches friendship over passion. |
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1. These beauteous forms,
Through a long absence, have not been to me
As is a landscape to a blind man's eye;
But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din
Of towns and cities, I have owed to them,
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart;
And passing even into my purer mind,
With tranquil restoration: -feelings too
Of unremembered pleasure; such, perhaps,
As have no slight or trivial influence
2.He cannot feel about Nature the way he once did, but he can recapture the mood through reflection. |
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| "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" |
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1.The Albatross-*Inexplicable violence like "Nutting", destruction of innocence.
Human/Animal division-Coleridge is always thinking about animals.
**HOSPITALITY-this is important to Coleridge. The mariner's killing of the bird was inhospitable.
2. ***Singularity (Romantic)"And he stoppeth one of three"-Divine inclination toward someone else.
3. If the wedding guest had rejected the mariner...slaying of another old sea bird.
4.**Important connection of Wordsworth "Simon Lee"-Ballads speak to the common people, imitation of folklore.
5. The Gloss forces us to read the poem in different ways *Similar to Wordsworth's appeal to his reader to think differently in "Simon Lee." |
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1.FRIENDSHIP-Written to amuse her friends, Walton, Victor, and the creature all long for companionship.**Wollstonecraft-Friendship v. Love. Like her mother, Shelley regards friendship as being of the utmost importance.
2. Powerful emotions recollected in tranquility(Frankenstein's story is a memory)**Recollection in Tintern Abbey.
3. ABANDONMENT
4. DEATH-Frankenstein's purpose is to examine the difference between life and death. **Have we not seen this in all of our previous readings?**He meets with the void, and like Thel, he runs away. Though he later attacks it full force through his creation.
5.DEBT-Frankenstein's debt to his Adam. "Listen to my tale"**Like the mariner. Payment through reception of narrative. |
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1.Henry and Victor's vacation-seeking the "great English minds" aka W and Cole.
2. Nature is supposed to be restorative but fails with Victor.
**Like Mariner.."I will be with you on your wedding night!
2. FRIENDSHIP **Elizabeth meets her death in the conjugal bed, Wollstonecraft and friendship over love. |
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1. Origin of evil>overcoming it= responsibility of men and women.
2. What is the value of a literary education? -This question preoccupies PB Shelley. "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
3.Poetry gives us a reawakening and an opening of mind. POETS DRIVE CHANGE**Opposite of Wollstonecraft.
4. Let's learn to rebel against things such as empire and tyranny differently.
5.Challenge to Christian logic. The martyr as a spectacle. Martyrdom=Masochism?
6. LOVE as a transformative power- displaces tyranny, replace religion, remake politics. All you need is love PBS.
7. The world would be a better place without religion.
8. "As some dark Priest hales the reluctant victim--/ Shall drag thee, cruel King, to kiss the blood From these pale feet, which then might trample thee /If they disdained not such a prostrate slave./Disdain? Ah no! I pity thee." |
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| 1. Byron = Anti-venom of Romanticism. In a way he is fully invested in Romanticism>Maybe his message is that he can do Romance better than anyone else. 2.Byron is always circulating through Don Juan--He is almost indiscernalbe from his character. 3. Byron scorns philosophy. 4.Happiness can only be found by skirting patriarchal dominance. (Legitimate relationships in the poem are always unhappy) |
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1. FAITH-Does the sea of faith provide comfort or oppression for the beach's pebbles?
2. ARNOLD SEES EVERYTHING CYCLICALLY
3. Departure from Romance
4. Nature is now horrifying and love is no longer Shelleyian..Love is a last restort. |
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| 1. Browning is the inventor of the DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE. 2. Male dominance of this stillness and permanance of beauty. He wanted to keep her love(and her beauty?) forever. **Wollstonecraft would be pissed! 3. Words written BY A CHARACTER is a distinctly victorian trope. 4. Violence=condemnation of Victorian oppression of women. *He uses her hair, which is distinctly feminine to strangle her>Like the destruction in "Nutting" 5. How could God allow this? (A very Victorian question) |
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| 1. Attack on the fact that Victorian women are utterly replaceable. |
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"O Sorrow, wilt though live wtih me.."
1. In the process of mourning, Tennyson collects all of the elements of Victorian literary thought.
2. Monogomy with Sorrow isn't hopeful. Sorrow is so prized because it is associated with Hallam. *Could this be a connection of Wordsworth's Lucy?
3."So runs my dream; but what am I?/An infant crying in the night;/An infant crying for the light, and with no language but a cry." **He is like an infant, lacking a sense of self. THEL-Both revert to innocent questions. (Why am I here?)
4. LANGUAGE and MOURNING-"I sometimes hold it half a sin/To put in words the grief I feel;/For words, like Nature, half reveal/ And half conceal the Soul within. Nature, though beautiful, has the ability to conceal creatures and elements less pleasing.Tennyson's words are similar. What he is feeling is not beautiful. It is horrific, but his poetry makes it appear beautiful. **With the idea of something lurking in Nature.. connection to Nutting?
5.NATURE-Indifference of nature
Blake & Coleridge say, "Listen to nature, for it heals."
Tennyson says, "BS! Nature doesn't care about me or about anyone. *Our investments are SINGULAR, Nature's are not. *Romantic notion of divine inclination toward another.
"So careful of the type?" but no./From scarped cliff and quarried stone/She cries, "A thousand types are gone; I care for nothing, all shall go.
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