sexta semana de clases de la asignatura textos poéticos británicos e irlandés. Profesor Tomás Monterrey. Universidad de La Laguna., Apuntes de Filología Inglesa

¡Descarga sexta semana de clases de la asignatura textos poéticos británicos e irlandés. Profesor Tomás Monterrey. Universidad de La Laguna. y más Apuntes en PDF de Filología Inglesa solo en Docsity! Characteristics of Romantic Poetry Influential middle 19th century. Coleridge was really important Romanticism: literary movement opposed to Neoclassical or Augustan principles. Romanticism is the result of an astonishing change of sensibility. The natural world, here nature is seen as living nature that we see everyday. Romantics nature as we see nowadays. The role of the artist in society someone that thinks in utopia terms and opens a new vision in our eyes; a poet is a creator. 1789 is the beginning of the Romantic period and also the year in which the French Reevolution took place. The romantic period concludes in 1832. The Romantic period was conditioned by the Industrial Revolution, the landscapes and society change, people moves from villages to cities to work in factories. The romantics were sensitive to this social conditions and supported people who where at the bottom in the hierarchy. Independence of the American colonies. Napoleonic wars: Britain threatened of being invaded by Napoleon. Shelley, Byron, Keats,experienced the absolutism. Rise of literary reviews. Great importance of new means of communication like the periodical publications so people were informed about political matters and ideas, commenting books that were published, commentaries on how these books were received. Rise of philosophies against rationalism German idealism: explored the relationship between the mind and the external world. Art began to be seen as expressive (of feelings, emotions, inner conflicts). Focus in the expression from the individual point of view. Rousseau: emphasis of freedom, natural goodness of man (noble savage). Ridiculed scientific progress. Condemned tyranny (absolutist monarchy) and corrupted institutions. William Godwin: attacked social inequality and defended freedom. Shelley was attacked by William Godwin´s Philosophy. General notions of abstract romantic poetry in general • Subjective rather than objective. • Fragmentary rather than complet • Organic rather than preconceived in form • Interested in nature, the self, the wonderful and the supernatural • Interested, too, in confusion, fluidity, indetermining. • Interested in the moment of inspiration, the first idea that came to their mind. • Form of poems related to the moment of inspiration. Preconceived forms: poetical forms that previously existed like for example the sonnets. • Form that comes together with the inspiration • The supernatural The Romantic Poet • The poet has a sense of enjoyment (of life, world and his apprehension and understanding of them). • Extraordinary sense of life and energy, of freshness and excitement, they tried to answer questions about their individuality, their existence and their role in society, about art and politics, about the future, and formulate the answers using their own way and own poetic technique. • Interested in nature, but also in dreams, fairy tales, legnds, gothic, enchantments and magics, etc. • Interest in the SELF, that individuality “which imprisons and gives freedom”. The Romantic Poet and nature • Except Blake, all the Romantics celebrated nature. • Nature was opposed to cities. There is a genuine pleasure at seeing, hearing, and feeling the freshness of the natural world. • Landscape is seen for its ability “to express some of the elusive truths and perceptions of the mind”. • “Nature is associate with physical health. • Nature is a site of the numinous, and a source of the sublime, can perceived supernatural powers. The Romantic Poet and the imagination • The poet as visionary • The imagination enjoys a creative freedom (for revelation, political change, spiritual truth, and for purely excitement). • The imagination is God-like (it parallels that of God in creation), and unique to every individual. 1805: He completed the Prelude. 1807: “Intimations of Immortality”. 1814: The Excursion The Prelude (1805,1850) As early as march 1798, Wordsworth had written a contemplated vast philosophical poem to be entitled The views on man, nature and society. He planned the structure of the Prelude: introduction; first part (book I) and the seconda part (nine books published as the Excursion). The Prelude or Growth of a Poet´s mind. An autobiograpohical poem is Wordsworth completion of the introduction. THE POET IS NOW THEW HERO. It is the greatest verse autobiography in English, but not a conventional autobiography. It omits many factual details. Its purpose is to portray the development of the Romantic Imagination, that is to explore the psychology of a poet, determining what forces moulded him to poetic utterance. “Immense and awful”: the sources of the sublime. From Book First Iambic Pentameter Blank Verse like in Paradise Lost. Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798 By William Wordsworth Five years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a soft inland murmur.—Once again Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky. The day is come when I again repose Here, under this dark sycamore, and view These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard-tufts, Which at this season, with their unripe fruits, Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves 'Mid groves and copses. Once again I see These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines Of sportive wood run wild: these pastoral farms, Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke Sent up, in silence, from among the trees! With some uncertain notice, as might seem Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods, Or of some Hermit's cave, where by his fire The Hermit sits alone. These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind With tranquil restoration:—feelings too Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered, acts Of kindness and of love. Nor less, I trust, To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened:—that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on,— Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. If this Be but a vain belief, yet, oh! how oft— In darkness and amid the many shapes Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart— How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee, O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer thro' the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee! And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again: While here I stand, not only with the sense Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts That in this moment there is life and food For future years. And so I dare to hope, Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first I came among these hills; when like a roe I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, Wherever nature led: more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all.—I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, not any interest Unborrowed from the eye.—That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power 2nd stanza: images that he saw the first time. The landscape is precious because I have kept the image in my mind these moment of stress in the city daily life think in this image and produce a sweet sensation. Pleasure is more important than what one thinks everyone we do a favour we feel good. He compares the image of nature with alive things that we do everyday that are unremembered. Unintelligible world: confusion and burthen among us: the world in which we move. Corporeal: the body Transformation from body to soul mind flouring, mind soul becomes active the mind in the state we are able to perceive other things in our surrounding world. Place joyful. The nature I have in my mind is there, alive. I have been here again. Recalling when he was there for the first time. Cannot remember myself 5 years ago what I was like. I save that: I enjoyed that, I enjoy the landscape what I had in front of my eyes. Perception of young days is past. The perception that he had when he was younger. A sense SUBLIME. He has learnt to appreciate, to hear what nature has to say. There for Am I still a lover.... Now pleased to recognize in nature sus pensamientos más puros. The nurse: the person who takes care, the guardian of his emotions he describes the effect of nature in him. Banks: los márgenes del río. He calls her friend but is his sister Dorothy, he can perceived the language how Dorothy was five years ago. To pray to nature which is the powerful spirit. Spirit of nature. Repetition of nature as the spirit to be worshipper. Use a service as a religious service, at the ned landscape in the presence of woe. Interaction between nature and the poet. Five years has passed since he saw the landscape and now he can appreciate the sublime, he can appreciate now more things about the effect of nature on him: guardian, guide... At the end he expects that Dorothy in the future could see and appreciate things in nature. When he sees the landscape he does not recognize himself as he was 5 years ago now he realizes about things, he has a higher awareness of humanity, of himself, of nature and also a higher awareness of his sister. THE WORSHIP OF NATURE THAT WORDSWORTH IS PROPOSING IS REALLY IMPORTANT!!! PODEMOS VER EN ESTE POEMA LA TEORÍA DE ROMANTIC POET AND NATURE mis apuntes SUBLIME IN THE SENSE THAT KNOW HE CAN UNDERSTAND BETTER HIMSELF THAN IN THE PAST. In this poem, Tintern Abbey, does not appear, he is miles away and above this abbey, HE IS NOT THERE!!!. “My Heart Leaps Up When I behold” Natural piety and children innocence had this experience child developed a man and died but keep innocence. Him being born in nature. Samuel Taylor Coleridge He was interested in political experimentation. Began taking Laudianism in 1796. Coleridge describes effects of opium. He studies philosophy in 1789 1802 became addictive; his friends took care of him until the end of his life. Poetical works: 2 types. Conversational poems: written in blank verse (iambic pentameter feet with no rhyme) that reproduce the rhythm of conversation. Supernatural poems: Christabell, Kubla Khan. Prose works: Aids to reflection; On the Constitution of the Church and the State (1829). Kubla Khan and Daffodils. Wordsworth: the imagination: campus virtual. Primary vs second imagination. Kublakan: particular dream that gave different meaning from other dreams. Primary imagination: just one perception. What we perceive. Secondary imagination: at the root of all poetic activity EXAM APLICAR THEORY OF THE IMAGINATION QUE ESTÁ EN EL CAMPUS VIRTUAL CON KUBLA KHAN.