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END 18TH CENTURY AND1ST HALF 19TH CENTURY(GOES ON NEXT TO VICTORIANS IN 2ND HALF)
PUBLICATION LYRICAL BALLADS 1798BY
WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE
ROMANTICISM
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Characteristics of Romanticism:
Nature : poetic theme man & natureReturn to the past (older mediaeval and
renaissance poetry)Deepening interest for primitive & uneducated
mankind and childrenNaturalness : return of emotion & imagination to
poetry (more natural and simple language)Passion of love : for mankind and nature and
passionate love between the sexes, strong emotions instead of reason (Rationalism/Enlightenment)
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Content
In each stanza a different aspect of the season is described.
What are these aspects ?
In each stanza the aspect can be subdivided in 3.Try to find them (look for words in the text)
*This structure creates a 3-part-symmetry*The personification of Autumn is 3 times different
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To Autumn (1820)
Form:The poem consists of 3 stanzas of 11 lines each
ABAB CDED CC EABAB CDEC DD EABAB CDEC DD EIambic Pentameter ( 5 feet, 10 syllables)to swell the gourd, and plump the ha-zel shellsx / x / x / x / x /
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Explanation
1st stanza : fruitfulness
2nd stanza : labour
3rd stanza : ultimate decline
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Fruitfulnes1 early autumn (maturing sun, swell, plump, ripeness)2 day turning from morning (mists)3 Sense ( warm days, buds still opening in warm weather, motion :
swelling, plumping, bending
Labour1 mid-autumn (exhausted labourer)2 mid-afternoon (drowsed, sound asleep, sitting, watching ) 3 Sight (watch last oozings, patient look )
Ultimate decline1 heralding of winter ( swallows migrating, full-grown lambs, gourds,
grapes etc will be harvested for winter2 Dusk (chirping crickets, soft-dying day, rosy hue3 Sound ( gnats wail, redbreast = common sound of winter
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Personification of Autumn
*One who conspires ( with the sun), who ripens fruit
*One who harvests* One who makes music