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?"