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END 18 TH CENTURY AND1 ST HALF 19 TH CENTURY (GOES ON NEXT TO VICTORIANS IN 2 ND HALF) PUBLICATION LYRICAL BALLADS 1798 BY WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE ROMANTICISM

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Page 1: END 18 TH CENTURY AND1 ST HALF 19 TH CENTURY (GOES ON NEXT TO VICTORIANS IN 2 ND HALF) PUBLICATION LYRICAL BALLADS 1798 BY WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE ROMANTICISM

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