Romantic

The Romantic period started at the end of the French Revolution in 1789.It ended with the parliamentary reforms in 1832."The era was dominated by six poets:three (William Blake,William Wordsworth,and Samual Taylor Coleridge)were born before the period began and lived through most or all of it,while three others (the "second generation" of Percy Bysshe Shelley,John Keats,and George Gordon,Lord Byron)began their short careers in the second decade of the new century but died before 1825."

The Industrial Revolution was bringing about other changes in English life.Goods had been made by hand at home now factories had machines that worked faster."The economic philosophy that kept all this misery going was a policy called laissez faire,"let people do as they please."The rich grew richer and the poor suffered even more.Small children were often used as beasts."In the coal pits,for example,very small children were even harnessed to carts for dragging coal,just as they had been small donkeys."

I think that life would be very hard.Children espectially had it bad being used as donkeys.If you were rich life would probably wouldn't be as bad.If you were poor,you would just get poorer.When the laissez faire came along the "economic laws should be allowed to operate freely without government interference."

The Romantic poets used lyrical ballads,nature and imagination to express their work.The lyrical ballads a new kind of poetry was "well adapted to interest mankind permanently."This form of poetry lends itself to spontaneity,immediatiacy,a quick burst of emotion,and self revelation."Wordworth focused on rural life not the city life.The Romantics were often called nature poets.This description is misleading if it suggests that their poetry is full of charming scenes of forests,mountains,and streams-like the scenic overlooks on highways or the pictures on travel brochures."Romantics prized the beauty and majesty of nature."They did not think of nature as hostile,but they had a strong sense of its mysterious forces,and they were intrigued by the ways of nature and the human mind act upon each other."
"Each of the Romantic poets had his own special view of the creative power of the imagination and of the ways in which the humans mind isadapted to nature."Poems sometimes present imaginative experience that are powerful and moving.Imagination is kind of like a desire,"a motive that drives the mind to learn and to know things it cannot learn by rational and logical thinking."

I read The Lamb by William Blake.Its about a lamb and someone is asking who made thee.The lamb is by the stream in the meadow.The lamb has the softest clothing.Christ is called the lamb.He is meek and mild.He became a little child.Its a good example of Romantic poetry becaus ethe poem is describing a little bit of nature."By the stream and o'er the mead"and "making all the vales rejoice?"
I read She dwelt among the untrodden ways by William Wordworth.This poem is abotu a maid that very few loved.She lived unknown and very few could known.This an example of romantic poetry because its describing nature."She dwelt among the untrodden ways beside the springs of dove."
I read she walks in beauty by George Gordon,Lord Byron.This poem is talking about a woman and about her beauty.It describes all of her features.This poem is an example of imagination."She walks in beauty,like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies."
I read Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelly.This poem is about about a sculptor.The sculptor saying that he is a king of kings.This poem has a lot of imagination."My name is Ozymandias,king of kings:Look on my works,ye mighty and despire..."
I read When I have fears by John Keats.Tis poem is about someone who has fears,like he is scarde of the dark.This poem has imagination."When I behold,upon the night's starred face,huge cloudy symbols of high romance,and theink that I may never live the trace Their shadows,with the magic hand of chance..."

"After Napoleons defeat at waterloo in 1815,Britian was not involved in a major war until World War one began in 1914."The Industrial Revolution greatly expanded.It moved through booms and depressions."The first decade of Victoria's reign was full of troubles this period came to be known as the "Hungary Forties."Victoria came to throne in 1842,the first year of depression.She put a million and a half on some form of poor relief."Government commissions investing working conditions learned of children of mangled when they fell asleep at machines at the end of a tweleve-hour working day."

After reading about the Victorian period, I think that living in that period would be hard.Children were working tweleve hour shifts and they were falling asleep at their machines.This could have been very dangerous working conditions.When the potato Blight came in Ireland a million people were killed and two million people were forced to emigrate.Some went to English cities where ten to tweleve in a room of slums that had two toilets for every 250 people.to me life back then could be very hard.

The difference between the romantic period and the victorian period is how they treated the children.The Romantic period they had factories.This period is no better the other.They went by the policy "Laissez faire",which means let the people do as they please.In the Victorian period they worked the children tweleve hour days,which could be very tiring.But both periods had very poor conditions.

One way victorian wrote was through question and doubts.Their literature was filled with voices asking questions and raising doubts."Speaking for many of their contemporaries, and speaking to others they thought shallow and complacent,Victorian writers asked weather material comfort fully satisfied human needs and wishes."
Another way the poets wrote was to make readers aware of the connection of heaven and earth,body and soul."The highest purpose of a poet,of any writer,was to make readers aware of the connection between earth and heaven,body and soul,material and ideal."Some poets didn't believe in writing that way."Gerard Manley Hopkins is one and Christina Rossetti another-writers younger than Alfred Tennyson and Ruskin found it increasingly difficult to believe in an infinate power and order that made sense of material and human existence."
Another way was by moral and political."Victorian writers had purposes as a various as the ideas of reality they believed in.Some writers wanted to scare or shame readers into effective moral and politial actions that they optimistically believed were possible."Some Victorian literature entertained,informed,warned,and reassured.

The poem I read was The Eagle: A Fragment by Alfred,Lord Tennyson.This poem is about an eagle when he sees his prey.Thsi poem is describing all the nature around the eagle."The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;"Just another example "He watches from his mountain walls."
The poem I read was Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett browning.This poem is about someone telling them how much they love thee.They are telling about their feelings about that person."I love thee with a love I seem to lose." Another example is "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height."
The poem I read was Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold.This poem is describing the beach.It is telling about the moon and the sea.It also tells some of the ancient grek people,sophocles and aegean."The sea is calm tonight The tide is full,the moon lies fair."
The poem I read was Ah,Are you digging on my grave? by Thomas Hardy.This poem is asking someone who is digging my grave. Then the person names off a few people who might be digging this grave."ah,Are you digging my grave,my loved one?----Palnting rue."Another example is "Then who is digging my grave my nearest dearest kin?"

Independent Reading

India had just gotten into a fight with her husband over the summer.They have not talked in two months.Once things were back to normal.Her friend she met while on vacation Paul his wife died in a plane crash.Then someone called India and wanted her to take the job in London for a week.Her husband said no.She got into yet another arguement and went anyways.While on the assignment her husband refused to talk to her.Paul has talked to her everyday.India didn't want her husband to find out that she had two assignments one was the wedding and the other children as prostitutes.

restoration

When King James the 2nd,King of Great Britian from 1685 until he fled to France 1688,which brought the revolution on.The Glorious Revolution was the overthrown of James the 2nd of England in 1688.The revolution was closely tied with the war of the Grand Alliance on mainland Europe.James had a son in June.His daughter was set to get the throne until he had a son.His son in law wanted to get the throne.James was against catholicism and French abolutism.

I think that the event is so important because ruling over a country is very important.The townspeople wants someone good to do it.Not to make the town into a war or something like that.A lot of times there is arguements over who is going to take over the throne with that person dies.The person who takes over needs to be a boy.

The definition of satire is sarcasm or ridcule online. My definition of satire is someone that is mean or that is always putting someone down.Some examples are tv shows like the simpsons and king of the hill.

This story is about women having babies.They start by telling the weight of the child when they are nursed properly.When the child is properly nursed they will began to weigh at 28 pounds.Then they began telling about how many poor children there are.There are about four-fifths born poor.In the city of Dublin they would rather buy the children healthy and then put hot clothes on them until they sweat as they would do when they are roasting pigs.A very wealthy person wants very young lads about forteen but no younger than tweleve.All the people that bought the children only wants to fatten them.The poor will pay their rent by corn,money,cattle,or anything that can be siezed.They want poor mothers to miscarry their unborn child.This works with satire because the writer is always putting the poor down.All the city people are wanting to do is to buy children and then fatten them up.

The journal of the plague year is about a sickness taht spread very quickly.Some people didn't even know that they had it until the next day.Many people didn't live six hours.They soon would get gangrene spots on their body."For example,many persons in the time of this visitation never percieved that they were infected till they found to thier unspeakable surprise,the tokens came out upon them;afterwhich that they seldom lived six hours;for those spots called the tokens were really gangrene spots or mortified flesh..."One man in the town even hung himself.Many people were killing themselves even mothers killing their children.Some people would have strokes and even epilepsies.One man went to the motel and said he was infection free but the next morning he was dead."He asked them for lodging for onr night only,pretending to be going into Lincolnshire,and assuring them of being very sound and free from the infection..."One man had the infection and he broke way from the nurse and ran.With all the motions of his arms and leg it must have cured the infection.

I think that if you were going to live in that time you would need to stay in the house."For example,many persons in the time of this visitation never percieved that they were infected till they found the unspeakable surprise..."Many people would not be honest with you if they had it.Once you got the infection they didn't live long."...many seldom lived only six hours..."The only way to be sure that you don't catch it is to stay in the house.

Shakespeare uses the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.Spencer uses ABAB BCBC CDCD EE.Spencer uses his rhyme scheme as a "hook".When one line ends he hooks that line to the next one.

In Shakesphere he is saying that he could compare her to summer but the winds are rough and summer only lasts for a short time.Sometimes the sun shines and dimmmed and his lady is dimmed.Nature is always changing.his lady shall never lose possession or die.She will never die because he wrote this poem.He is saying that when she dies she will continue to live on because he wrote that poem.


Spencer is saying that his love is like ice and he is like fire.She treats him cold while he is like fire.He is wanting to know why she is like ice and he is like fire. How come the ice doesn't melt or that the fire doesn't get put out.He is asking why doesn't the ice put the fire out.Even though she is like ice and he is like fire their love has grown stronger.


Sonnet 75 Edmund Spenser
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, A
But came the waves and washed it away; B
Again I wrote it with a second hand, A
But came the tide,and made my pains his prey. B

"Vain man," said she,"that doest in vain assay, B
A moral thing so to immortalize, C
For myself shall like to this decay, B
And eke my name be wiped out likewise." c

"Not so,"quod I,"let baser things devise C
To die in dust,but you shall live by fame;D
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,C
And in the heavens write your glorious name.D

Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,E
Our love shall live,and later life renew." E

He wrote her name in the sand and the tide came and washed it away.It made his pains his prey.He is afaid that she might go away.Even if you die you shall live by fame.That their love shall live on forever.


Sonnet 130 William Shakespheare
My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun, A
Coral is far more red than her lips'red B
If snow be white,why then her breasts are dun,A
If hairs be wires,black wires grow on her head.B

I have seen roses'damasked,red and white,C
But no such roses see I in her cheeks.D
And in some perfumes is there more delight C
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks,D

I love to hear her speak,yet well i know E
That music hath a far more pleasing sound.F
I grant I never saw a goddess go,E
My mistress,when she walks,treads on the ground.F

And yet,by heaven,I think my love as rare G
As any she belied with false compare.G

He is describing his girlfriend.Her eyes are like the sun.Her lips are red.Snowballs are like her breasts.Her hair is like black wires growing out of her head.Her cheeks are like roses.Her breath is like perfume exhaled form her mouth.He loves to hear her speak and to see her walk by.He thinks that his love is rare beyond anything that he can compare.


About my daughter

She is like the sun,her hair so golden.
Her eyes are like the sky
Her skin is so fair
Money can not buy.
Shes tall like the trees
Her hands are so neat
Her hair is golden like yellow bees
Shes got a good beat
Her behavior is not so great
Even though shes bad,she means well
Its always hard for me to wait
There are days when she yells
I know shes my child sincerely
I love her dearly

Renaissance

When Johannes Guthenberg invented the printing press, it changed everthing.The people no longer needed the the popes to translate the Bible.People began to buy them.When people began to buy the Bibles they started doubting the power of the Catholic Church.Another problem came when King Henry broke away from the Catholic Church to start the Church of England.King Henry wanted to divorce his wife but the pope wouldn't let him. In the end he had six wives.Two he divorced,two he beheaded,one died on her own and the other out lived him.He had three children,two girls and a boy,which later died when he was sixteen.The older sister took over and ruled for five years.Then the younger sister took over and ruled for forty-five years.When the younger sister died the Renaissance was coming to an end.After she died King James took over.He's the man who comissioned the English translation of the Bible today.

Independent Reading

I read that India had took the kids on vacation with her. Her husband has not yet to come. India and her son, Sam have been spending a lot of time with this man who has got a really big boat. Sam is really facinated with boats. They have been arraiving with this man around 8:30 and not going home until dark. India talks to him about how her huband has treated her about going back to work. Her husband disagrees with her. But, Paul the man who owns the boat agrees with her and tells her to go back to work and tell her husband that she is going.