Romantic Poetry Flashcards
(11 cards)
1
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When was the romantic period?
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18th to Mid 19th century
2
Q
What was the period before that?
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Neo-classical or Enlightenment era
3
Q
what did the romantics think about poems -wordsworth
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Radically- poetry should speak for everyone
and should be a moment of spontenious though as a reaction against englightenment
4
Q
Prizing of what above what
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Imagination above reason- Blake
5
Q
Desire to challenge what
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6
Q
celebration of childhood
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as a time of the greatest wisdom- children are closest to state of natural grace, divine
7
Q
Yearning of what -nature
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connection with nature, reaction against modernity and industrialisation
8
Q
Idealism
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9
Q
fascination with the exotic
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energy that cannot be fully understood-
10
Q
Great thinkings
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Russeu
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