Industrial Revolution, Romantic Period
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Describe iambic tetrameter
" That floats on high o’er vales and hills"
da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM
What were the effects of the Industrial Revolution (1760-1820)?
- From hand production to machines.
- The feeling that prosperity was bought with the poverty of many.
- The French Revolution (1789) was an inspiration.
What subjects did the Romantic Period use?
- Nature.
- Idealization of people.
- The innocence of children.
- Folklore, fairy tales, mythology.
- Exotic cultures, distant countries.
- The idealized past.
- Revival of old country ballads.
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How did the Romantic period affect poetry?
Guided by imagination, not reason.
"the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth)
Emphasis on emotions
What were the lyrical ballads?
-Most poems were by Wordsworth, and many dealt with the lives of the poor in the Lake District, or the poet's feelings about nature.
-Man is part of nature, Wordsworth believed, so we should live in harmony with it, so nature can lead us to wisdom and goodness.
Who wrote the poem 'In a Station of the Metro'?
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Who wrote the summary of Wordsworth's poem I wandered lonely as a cloud'?
Wandering along the road
by the lake, I saw a load
of golden daffodils
Ten thousand, give or take.
Now and then
I think of them again.
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