Dnglish Romanticidm Flashcards
(17 cards)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publishes a book about the raising of children “emile” praised the natural goodness and wisdom of children in contrast to oppressive adults
• The child outside of adult discipline is a symbol of creativity and genius
Thomas Chatterton
Commits suicide because nobody wants to publish his poetry, martyr of the romanticism movement
Goethe
Published romantic love story between doomed passionate love affair, about a man under pressure to conform to society but he can conform only to his heart.
Commits suicide at the end of the novel, sympathy for madness
Fransisco goya
Romantic belief limits of reason and power of irrational fragile human minds, sympathy for madness
William wordsworth
Loved nature during the industrial revolution, which he hated the industrial revolution as he hated industry. Speaks for natural simple life
Thomas cole
Paints images of landscapes who draws vast landscapes where man looks small and puny in comparison to nature, relief from city life in nature
Augustus Pugin
Made architecture with the intention of looking old and preindustrial as romantic romanticized life before the industrial era
Charles Baudelaire
Wrote a poem celebrating a character who he calls a stroller who has no job and spends his time observing life; walking instead of rushing, he enjoys life.
Paul gauguin
• Painter sent sail to tahiti and painted native women with the belief that civilization made society sick
Enumeration
the action of mentioning a number of things one by one.
Enjambment
the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
Volta
Turning point of a thought or argument
Caesura
Pause in the middle of a line of poetry
Pathetic fallacy
Type of personification that is specific to nature
Apostrophe
• When an author speaks directly to someone who is not present or is dead
Allusion
• An implied or casual or indirect reference to another work, history, or mythology
Frame narrative
The result of inserting one or more small stories within the body of a larger story that encompasses the smaller ones