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Elements of Romanticism Slide2
How Romantic Are You?Individually, respond to the Romanticism Quiz/Survey.Next to each statement, write whether you agree or disagree. Tally up how many statements you agreed with.Slide3
What is Romanticism?Romanticism was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak around 1800-1850. Slide4
Why did Romanticism start?The Romantic Movement was a revolt against the Enlightenment of the late17th and 18th century and its focus on rational and scientific thought. Slide5
Characteristics
and
focuses of Romantic literature include emphasis on:EmotionsMorality
Nature
stressed the awe
The “everyday man
”
(noble savage & natural goodness)
Subjectivity and the
individual
Romantics often elevated the achievements of the misunderstood, heroic individual outcast.
Imagination
Gut
feelings/intuitions
knowledge is gained through intuition
Experimental trial and error
SpontaneitySlide6
Romanticism Art - The Raft of the Medusa Common man the individuals on the raft consisted of people from the lower classes of society who are suffering.Emotions Represents the rise from death to hope creates a “pyramid of hope” and helps establish the two different tones of the painting. Awe of nature the wave and horizonCelebrate the individual Each of the characters tells a story about the predicament that has befallen the survivors on this raft. In the bottom left quarter of the painting a gray-haired man clasps the body of his dead son. In the center top of the painting another man gestures with his hand as he turns back to the despairing people on the raft behind him. Slide7
Meet the Grand-daddiesRomanticism started mainly in Britain and then migrated over to America, so we need to begin with the “grandfathers” of Romanticism. Slide8
First Generation- Wordsworth and ColeridgeMen meet at CambridgePublish Lyrical Ballads in 1798Seek to abandon formal language of 1700’s Balance between poet’s influence and “real language” Balance between commonplace and supernatural Slide9
Second Generation: Byron, Shelley, and KeatsAll have tragically short livesByron and Shelley both aristocrats, well-educated; leave England under pressure; see themselves as outcastsByron is popular while Shelley is misunderstoodKeats
produces poetry at 24 and dies at 25 Slide10
Fun Facts about Lord Byron – “Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know”When Lord Byron went to Cambridge in 1805 he requested his dorm to have four bottles of wine, four bottles of port, four bottles of sherry, and four bottles of claret along with decanters and glasses.Lord Byron lived a very free lifestyle and contracted a variety of STDs by the time he was only 21.Byron was married and did have a daughter, however, Byron's wife left him in January following the birth of their daughter because of his alcoholism and debt. He never saw either his wife or daughter again.Lord Byron and his friends, including the Shelleys and Claire Clairmont, spent the summer of 1816 together at the Villa Diodati in Switzerland. It was during this summer that Lord Byron suggested they have a contest to write the best horror story. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. Lord Byron wrote The Vampyre.Slide11
Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” “Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain….”Slide12
American Adoption of RomanticismAs we adopted romanticism, America focused on the “everyday man”, individualism, nature, revolution, and revolted against the strict religious traditions of early settlers. This gave rise to New England Transcendentalism, which had less restrictive relationships between humans, God, and universe. Slide13
Some American Romantic Poets Include:Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)Walt Whitman (1819-1892)Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)Herman Melville (1819-1891)Slide14
21st Century Romanticism – in ArtBansky’s “Throw Up” This street art reflects the romantic idea of the importance of nature and contradictory elements/gestures. It contrasts the industrial characters with natural characters. Slide15
21st Century Romanticism – in Song “The Sound of Silence”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4Hello darkness, my old friendI've come to talk with you againBecause a vision softly creepingLeft its seeds while I was sleepingAnd the vision that was planted in my brainStill remainsWithin the sound of silenceIn restless dreams I walked aloneNarrow streets of cobblestone'Neath the halo of a street lampI turned my collar to the cold and dampWhen my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon lightThat split the nightAnd touched the sound of silence