Romanticism Unit 2 – Coleridge



Literary Terms you will need to know for the ROMANTICISM Unit

(14) Literary Terms (729 can be helpful!): Write the definition and an example.

Alliteration:

Assonance:

Consonance:

Internal Rhyme:

End Rhyme:

Onomatopoeia:

Repetition:

Read the following line and complete the activities that follow

A Red, Red Rose

By Robert Burns

First Line:

O, my love is like a red, red rose

1. (1) This line expresses a comparison of two words. What two words is the author comparing in the line?

(a)_______________________________ (b)_______________________________

2. (1) Is this a metaphor or a simile? (circle the correct response). How do you know?

3. (2) When you read a comparison like this, you will see 2 mental pictures. In your mind you should see both pictures clearly. Explain how you can “see” love, even though it is not a concrete object.

4. (3) Many times, certain words remind us of other words. For example, if you see the word war you may think of tanks, guns, airplanes, fear, suffering, and other similar qualities. We call these connotations and word association. List 6 qualities that come to your mind when you think of the word “rose”.

(a) ________________________ (b) _________________________ (c) _________________________

(d) ________________________ (e) _________________________ (f) __________________________

5. (3) List 6 qualities for “love”

(a) ________________________ (b) _________________________ (c) _________________________

(d) ________________________ (e) _________________________ (f) __________________________

6. (1)Look at the words you have listed for “rose”; can you APPLY them to “love”? List the ones you can below.

7. (2)You may have written “thorn” as a quality for rose. Explain how you can apply thorn to love.

8. (2) In good writing there are no exact substitutes. One word cannot take the place of another because each has its own unique meaning. What would happen to the meaning if the line were rewritten as “O, my love is like a red, red tulip”? What would be different?

9. (2) If you sent red tulips to a person, would they have the same effect as red roses? Explain.

10. (2) In a comparison, the reader sees two separate pictures, in this case, rose and love. The second picture (rose) makes he reader understand the first picture (love) better. Now look at the word “red”; The poet makes us see a red rose. Why? Before you answer consider what associations come to your mind with the word “red”. What kind of love is Burns describing?

11. (1) What would the meaning of a white rose suggest? A pink rose?

(white)_______________________________ (pink)____________________________________

Words that you use every day are extremely important. When you speak or write, you communicate the precise meaning of each word and all that it suggests. As you improve in your reading you will become more aware of the specific use of words. Business and industry are well aware of the importance of language. For example, the names of automobiles are carefully chosen by the manufacturer.

12. (2)Why do companies choose names like “Mustang”, “Land Rover” or “Beetle”? Before you answer; think of words that come to mind with each one.

13. (2)Would anyone buy a car that was called “the cow” or “the water buffalo”; explain your response.

FILL IN THE BLANKS (15 points (.25 each))& ADD notes to this OUTLINE

The Romantic Period: ( - )

(3 points)Write what you remember about the following American Romantics

|Edgar Alan Poe | |

|Herman Melville | |

|Emily Dickinson | |

|Walt Whitman | |

|Henry David Thoreau | |

|Ralph Waldo Emerson | |

|Washington Irving | |

• From Science and Reason to ________________and the ________________; previously, ________________and bitterness berate the power of human ________________as if to say “Humanity is ________________” Who is one author who expressed this idea?

• Attitudes redefined “our meddling intellect / Misshapes the beauteous forms of things-- / We murder to dissect”

From Enlightenment to Romanticism

|Industrial Revolution |

French Revolution/ Revolutions/rise of Nationalism

1750 1789 1800 1850

|(1) Enlightenment Ideas |(1)Romantic ideas |

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Descartes: “Cogito, ergo sum” (I think, therefore I exist.) Rousseau: “Exister, pour nous, c’est sentir”(For us, to exist is to feel.)

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Reaction to: (1)_____________________, (2) _____________________, & (3) _____________________

• What might be some negative effects of The Industrial Revolution?

The French Revolution is the French emotional reaction stressing ________________class dominance

• ________________causes adopted & ________________ of common people from lack of political and economic agency

• Out of this revolution comes…(1) _______________, (2) ________________ & (3) ________________

The Massacre of Peterloo : England- ________________: _____ Killed; ______-______Injured

(1) ________________ (2) ________________ (3) ________________

• Romanticism refers to a movement in ________________, ________________, and ________________during the ________________century.

• Broadly characterized by: ________________, ________________, ________________, and ________________

• ________________was emphasized over “reason”; this was a backlash against the rationalism characterized by the ________________ “Age of Reason.” ________________was considered necessary for creating all art. British writer Samuel Taylor Coleridge called it “________________.”

• Emotion: Romantics placed value on ________________and ________________over reason. British Romantic William Wordsworth described poetry as “_______________________________________.”

• Inspiration: The Romantic artist, musician, or writer, is an “inspired creator” rather than a “_______________.” Romantic writers were “going with the flow,” or being ________________, rather than “getting it precise.”

• Individuality: Romantics celebrated the ________________. Triumph of ________________man in French Revolution. Women’s ________________and ________________were taking root as major movements. Walt Whitman, an American Romantic writer, wrote a lengthy poem entitled “Song of ________________”; it begins, “I celebrate ________________…”

Visual Arts

• Earlier art (________________ art) was rigid, severe, and ________________.

• Follows strict classical rules from ancient ________________ and ________________ … proportions, symmetry… simplicity

• Romantic art was ________________, deeply-felt, ________________, and exotic. It has been described as a reaction to earlier styles (neoclassical art); conveyed ________________ feeling of artist, glorified the ________________ man, depicted the ________________ (subjects), landscapes/________________ became important.

Visual Arts Example (4):

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Romantic Literature

The publication of ________________ by ________________ and ________________ in ________________ is considered the beginning of literary Romanticism.

Relationship with Nature

Celebration of the Common Man

Romanticism(2)

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Idioms:

Main Entry: id·i·om Pronunciation: \ˈi-dē-əm\ Date: 1588 Function: noun

Etymology: Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French idiome, from Late Latin idioma individual peculiarity of language, from Greek idiōmat-, idiōma, from idiousthai to appropriate, from idios

1 a : the language peculiar to a people or to a district, community, or class : dialect b : the syntactical, grammatical, or structural form peculiar to a language

2 : an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either grammatically (as no, it wasn't me) or in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (as Monday week for “the Monday a week after next Monday”)

3 : a style or form of artistic expression that is characteristic of an individual, a period or movement, or a medium or instrument ; broadly : manner, style ................
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