1. Two historical events during this time
The first event that i want to talk about is about the French Revolution. The French Revolution took place in the early days of the Romantic period in the year of 1989. The revolution started with the storming of Bastille by a French mob. The mob had the support of the French soldiers and the were fighting to get the ammunition from Bastille. The mob believed that the Royal army was going to take control so they and the French soldiers rebelled. Another event that took place during the Romantic period was the passing of the Act of Union.
The Act of Union created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The Act was passed in 1801 and it united the Kingdom of Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland. Ireland had been in a union prior to this Act with England. So these two events were the two events i chose to talk about that occur ed during the Romantic Period (1798- 1832).
2. What was life like?I believe life was real hectic for the people living during this time. Imagine people being killed all the time. Think about the way you would feel to see the government going into a spiral loop. I believe that i would be terrified to be in a situation like this. I would not like for my family to see people being beheaded and there head paraded around town. I also feel like some people were very angry at the King and that is the reason they rebelled. People must have gotten tired of decisions the king was making and just couldn't take it anymore.
3. what the poets want to express
The Poets during this era focused more on imagination and naturalness. The poets of this time shifted away from the eighteenth-century emphasis on reason and artifice. Poets would right about the past or an inner dream world. Another way these poets wrote was that the poet would always be a man speaking to men. These poets rejected the public, formal, and the works of the earlier century. The poets of this time focused more on the personal experiences and emotions.
STEP 2
William Blake: A Poison Tree
When i searched for poems written by William Blake i came upon a poem called A Poison Tree. The poem was about being mad at people and how you should just tell them and resolve the problem and move on with your life. In this poem he gives two examples about how life can turn out to be depending on how you handle your problems.
In the first half Blake speaks about him having a grudge on a friend. He then speaks about how he tells his friend and then the problem was resolved. By doing this life was much easier when he was around this particular friend.
In the second half of the poem Blake talks about having a problem with a foe. He decides not to resolve the problem and every time he gets around this person he hides his anger behind fake smiles. Blake then uses a metaphor about his problem growing day and night into an apple. This is a good example about how the poets of the Romantic period focused a lot on an inner dream world. The reason i say this is because your anger cant really grow an apple. When the apple grows it gets real beautiful and the foe sees it. The foe seeing the apple decides to lay beneath the tree that has the apple in it. All of this is made up and cant really happen from being mad at someone but it is the way the poets wrote during this time. In the end the foe ended up enjoying the apple tree, while the guy with the grudge sat there miserably. This poem is real good at showing the different writing techniques that were born during the Romantic era.
William Wordsworth http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15925
The poem The Daffodils by William Wordsworth was a writing about nature and the inner dream world. He express how he is alone and feeling lonely and how all of a sudden he spots happiness that he describes as a bunch of dandelions dancing around." A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."
What I interpret his feelings as is he is lost in the world, feeling like theres no one and nothing to turn to, but he realizes he doesn't need people to be happy, the nature is dancing and he realizes that nature is happiness. "A Poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company:"
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Loves Philosophy
For Percy Bysshe Shelley I read her poem called "Loves Philosophy". This poem has a real romantic sense to it. The poem speaks about how everything in the world is not single. It shows this by given examples of things that mingle with each other. One example is how fountains mingle with a river and the river with the ocean. So this is a good example because during the Romantic period the literature had alot to do with fantasy worlds. The author is clearly imagining this world where the rivers are pretty and how it flows into the ocean.
Another thing I picked up was about how the author seemed to be talking to another person. The main focused of this book was to tell ask a man why he would not be with her. After giving more examples of natural things in the earth being with each other; she ask a male why he wont be with her. This is another characteristic of literature during the Romantic Era. Poets during this era wrote alot about there emotions and this is clearly an example of someone expressing there emotions.
Step 3
1. Victorian Period events.
The Victorian Period was from 1837-1901. This period was named after Queen Victorian. During this time many things happened and i want to talk about two of them. The first thing i want to talk about is the Indian Mutiny. The Indian Mutiny took place during the long days of 1857. This rbellion is also known as Indias first war of Independence. The whole purpose of this rebellion was to overthrow the British East India Company, which occupied India. The Indian Sepoys along with many natives fought many of the British and took back much of the land out from under the control of the British. In the end the Sepoys rebellion was detroyed and mostly everything was controlled by the British Crown.
Another event i would like to talk about is Bloody Sunday. Bloody Sunday is when thousands of people where in Trafalger Square. Most of these people werer unemployed or socialist. The people where protesting British control over Ireland. The army was sent in to manage the crowd and 2000 police men were also sent in. In the end many were injured and two people were killed.
2.Life During this era
I believe that during this time peoples standard of living was starting to rise. Many of the things that ordanary people couldnt buy before was now available to them. Also alot of people started to get a job due to the fact that there was an industrial revalution. So in all life was starting to get better for the people living during this time.
3.Differences Victorian Period / Romantic Era
Some of the differences between this two eras is probably the way of living. During the Romantic era life was much more hectic and not that enjoyable. The government was going into a spiral loop and things werent looking all that great for people living during this era. During the Victorian period people were better off. The industrial revolution was bringing alot of new jobs to many people and this was real good. Many people could afford many of the things now because fo mass production.
4. Victorian Poets
Many of the Victorian poets would always try to make the readers believe in a sense of reality. Another thing i read was how the poets would try to scare the readers into effective moral and political actions. This poets wrote all hard surface and no soul. They worte about lovers being betrayed by unfaithfullness , war,and other troubles. They would also write about how hereos would try to settle down and get married. The poets of this time entertained, infromed, warned and reassured the readers.
Step 4
Thomas Hardy: Beeny Cliff
In this poem by Thomas Hardy the characteristics of the Victorian period are present. The main point is about a guy falling in love with a girl. In the poem the guy talks about how beautifull this girl is and how he loves her so much. "The woman now is--elsewhere", this is a direct quote from the book and it clearly shows that this women has left this guy. So as you can see this is direct evidence of how the victorian poets wrote. The whole plot of this poem is about how the guy cant be with his love adn this is a characteristic of victorian poetry.
Robert Browning: The Lost Mistress
The lost mistress is another poem which talks about love. In this poem a gentlemen is speaking to women about his love for her. He explains how holding her hand for a little is satisfying even though he would like to hold it forever. Well this is an example of victorian peotry because again it speaks about love and not being able to be with each other. I'm not sure but i think the reason why they cant be together is because she already has a husband. If my interpretation is true then that brings out another characteristic of Victorian poetry. The characteristic it brings out is how the lovers would be thorn apart by unfaithfulness in some way. Well thats pretty much it for this poem.
Matthew Arnold: Philomela
In this poem he talks about how he loves this girl so much but he knows they can never be together. "Still, after many years, in distant lands,Still nourishing in thy bewilder'd brain" I feel like he is trying to say that they have been apart for so long but yet still he has a image of her in his head, and his head won't stop wondering what could become if they were together. "The unfriendly palace in the Thracian wild?" He explains the setting in this line where as he and she live in two different villages and are maybe rivals. He will always love her but since he can't have her there will always be love and pain, "Eternal passion!Eternal pain!"
Alfred Lord Tennyson Love and Death
In this poem I feel that he is trying to scare people. He is talking about death and how it is represented by shadows. "Thou art the shadow of life, and as the treeStands in the sun and shadows all beneath,So in the light of great eternityLife eminent creates the shade of death." He talks to a shadow walking and the shadow is supposidly dead," And all about him roll’d his lustrous eyes;When, turning round a cassia, full in view,Death, walking all alone beneath a yew."
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