ROMANTICISM!

Each of you needs to choose a different literary movement, research it - the characteristics, major themes, styles, employment of literary devices, authors, and bring one example of a poem from the period to share with the class and to discuss. You'll need to post all of these things on your blog so that your classmates can use it to study.

The Romantic Movement started between the 17th and 18th centuries, and produced many of the stereotypes of poets and poetry that do exist to this day; the poet, as a highly tortured and melancholy visionary. Romanticism is philosophical and mystical, it is an art and a statement. Some main ideas, or themes include dreams and visions, imagination, emotions, rebellion and creativity of the individual artist. Romanticism can employ styles of free verse, sonnet...long ones...and some poets refer to the bible. This type of poem is usually fitting as a song.


Some Poets

• Germans (these two worked together)
• Fredrishch Schiller
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (supreme genius of modern german literature; wanted to be a painter-color!)
• Brittish
• William Wordsworth (SONNETS; wrote "magnum opus" for Coloridge
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (wrote lyrical ballads with Wordsworth)
• Percy Bysshe Shelly
• George Gordon Lord Byron
• English
• John Keats
• French
• Victor Hugo
• American
• Walt Whitman (father of FREE VERSE; concerned w/politics)
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Not sure
• Charles Baudelaire
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• William Blake
• Talks about the bible
• called mad -idiosyncratic views- others called it creativity
• kinda symbolizes Romanticism
• Matthew Arnold
• John Clare