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The Symbolist Movement

Originated from France: 1850’s-1900’s Symbolism was an idealistic movement, created by artists

discontented with their culture Is a link between Romanticism and Modernism. The poetry conveys very personal, irrational, and dream-

like state of consciousness.

What is the Symbolist Movement?

ImageryPersonificationSimileAllusionSynecdoche AlliterationMetaphorSymbolismAllusion

Poetic Techniques & Themes

Born [American] on September 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. Educated at Harvard University & Merton College, Oxford. Received a B.A in Philosophy Became a British Citizen in 1927, also becoming a member of the Anglican Church. Settled in England, where he was for a time a schoolmaster and a bank clerk, and

eventually literary editor for the publishing house Faber & Faber, of which he later became a director.

Became a poet, dramatist, and a literary critic. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Married a Cambridge governess, Vivienne Haigh-Wood, in June 26, 1915. Separated

in 1932, and re-married to former secretary, Esmé Valerie Fletcher (32) in 1957. He founded and, during the seventeen years of its publication (1922-1939), edited

the exclusive and influential literary journal Criterion T.S Eliot died of emphysema and was cremated in London

on January 4, 1965.

Thomas Stearns “T.S” Eliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1917)The Waste Land (1922)Ash-Wednesday (1930)The Rock (1934)Four Quartets (1944)

Notable Works of T.S Eliot

LET us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like a patient etherized upon a table;Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, 

The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument 

Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question. . .                              

Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" Let us go and make our visit. 

  In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. 

  The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes 

Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains, 

Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys, Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,                              

And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Imagery – The description of the setting enhances the story. It features a dark, smelly neighborhood of London. It’s October. Steam is rising from the streets, and a sick yellow fog circulates around the crooked houses. Drunks are stumbling out of the "sawdust restaurants" and sloppy-looking couples argue outside of "cheap hotels.“

“Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:”

“And seeing that it was a soft October night”  “The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes 

The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes ”

Personification - :Parts of the scene are depicted using personification. It’s not the "retreats" that are "muttering," but it seems that way because they are the kinds of places where you would run into muttering people. Also, the nights aren’t actually "restless"; they make people restless.

“Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels” 

Analysis of Figurative Language

W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist (playwright) Born in Dublin, Ireland on June 13th, 1865 Educated in London and Dublin

Godolphin School in Hammersmith Eramus Smith High School Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin

Founded the Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin, 1899,

along with Lady Augusta Gregory Married to Miss George Hyde- Less in 1917 who then too

became interested in poetry. Became elected as an Irish Senator in 1922 until his retirement in

1928. Received the Noble Prize in Literature in 1923. Died in Roquebrane, France on January 28, 1929.

William Butler Yeats

When You Are Old (1893) No Second Troy (1910) The Rose of the World (1893) The Unappeasable Host (1899) Men Improved with the Years (1919)

Notable Works of William Butler Yeats

A sudden blow: the great wings beating stillAbove the staggering girl, her thighs caressedBy the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.

How can those terrified vague fingers pushThe feathered glory from her loosening thighs?

And how can body, laid in that white rush,But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

A shudder in the loins engenders thereThe broken wall, the burning roof and tower[20]

And Agamemnon dead.

Being so caught up,

So mastered by the brute blood of the air,Did she put on his knowledge with his power

Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?

Leda and the Swan

Symbolism: “Leda and the Swan” (Title) The title is a symbol because the Swan is actually the Greek God, Zeus.

Personification: “How can those terrified vague fingers push..” The fingers cannot be ‘terrified’, only Leda can express that

emotion. Imagery: “A shudder in the loins engenders there..”

This emphasizes the actual sexual intercourse.

Allusion: “A broken wall, the burning roof and tower/ And Agamemnon dead.” The turning point in the poem; Consequence: from the rape to the fall

of Troy.

Synecdoche: “did she put on his knowledge with his power/ Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?” The ‘indifferent beak” = Zeus as a Swan.

Analysis of Figurative Language

British poet, critic, & magazine editor born in Wales on February 28, 1865 Privately educated Moved to London at 16 and joined a

literary community The Rhymer's Club

was a staff member of Athenaeum, Saturday Review, and The Savoy

had a psychotic breakdown in 1909 and was sent to an asylum 

died from pneumonia in 1945

Arthur Symons

Notable Works of Arthur Symons

Silhouettes (1896)The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899)

The Book of Rhymer's Club (1892)

The feverish room and that white bed,The tumbled skirts upon a chair,The novel flung half-open where

Hat, hair-pins, puffs, and paints, are spread;

The mirror that has sucked your faceInto its secret deep of deeps,And there mysteriously keepsForgotten memories of grace;

And you, half dressed and half awake,Your slant eyes strangely watching me,

And I, who watch you drowsily,With eyes that, having slept not, ache;

This (need one dread? nay, dare one hope?)Will rise, a ghost of memory, ifEver again my handkerchief

Is scented with White Heliotrope

White Heliotrope

• Imagery: The feverish room and that white bed,/the tumbled skirts upon a chair...o used to illustrate the poem's promiscuous settingo the room is described as "feverish" because it is hot and sweaty

•  Alliteration: Hat, hair-pins, puffs, and paints are spreado adds rhythm to the poem 

• Personification: The mirror that has sucked your faceo the mirror reflects the woman's character, secrets, and memories

•  Metaphor: This (need one dread? nay, dare one hope?)/Will rise a ghost of memory, if...o The image of the woman is compared to a ghost o the memory of her will haunt him

• Symbolism: White Heliotropeo White heliotrope is a beautiful flower that has a pleasant scent, however

it is also poisonous and can cause deatho May represent the affair or the woman

Analysis of Figurative Language

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde born 16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900

Irish writer and poet Went to Trinity College, Dublin

– Wilde became a quickly established member in the University Philosophical Society and was first in his class; presenting his philosophies on aesthetics.

One of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s Known for his epigrams, his plays and his imprisonment Also known for his involvement in aestheticism

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)

De Profundis (written in 1897 & published in 1905)

While in prison, originally a letter written to discuss his career up to date and his fall, blaming himself and taking responsibility.

Notable Works of Oscar Wilde

The Thames nocturne of blue and goldChanged to a Harmony in grey:A barge with ochre-coloured hay

Dropt from the wharf: and chill and coldThe yellow fog came creeping down

The bridges, till the houses' wallsSeemed changed to shadows and St. Paul's

Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.Then suddenly arose the clang

Of waking life; the streets were stirredWith country waggons: and a bird

Flew to the glistening roofs and sang.But one pale woman all alone,

The daylight kissing her wan hair,Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare,With lips of flame and heart of stone.

Impression du Matin

"The Thames nocturne of blue and gold,/ Changed to a harmony in gray;/ A barge with ocher-colored hay/ Dropped from the wharf..." Influence from   James A. MacNeill whistler from  Nocturne in the Blue and Gold: Old Battersea Bridge and  Harmony in Gray.

"But one pale woman all alone,/ The daylight kissing her wan hair,/ Loitered beneath the gas lamp’s flare,/ With lips of flame and heart of stone."  Uses of imagery conveying society’s view of prostitution as almost transparent, not seeing the poor, those who are forced to do what they would not otherwise do in order to survive

Analysis of Figurative Language

1. The Symbolist Movement conveyed a dream-like state away from their culture. Identify a poem and construct and essay which utilizes figurative language to portray symbolism as a whole.

2. The Symbolist Movement is made up of being personal, irrational, and dream-like. Analyze a poem and construct an essay in which it displays all three.

3. They Symbolist Movement utilizes a lot of figurative language, as does every poetry movement does, but explain how the Symbolist Movement separates itself from other poetry movements.

3 AP Style Writing Prompts

1. What is the Symbolist Movement a link between?

2. What 3 words describe the Symbolist Movement?

3. Name 1 Notable Work of T.S Eliot [besides the one we focused on].

4. In what year did Eliot become a British Citizen and turned to the Anglican Churh.

5. What is a synecdoche?

6. How does Greek Mythology relate to W.B Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan”

7.  In the poem Impression Du Matin, how does Oscar Wilde depict the mood of the city compared to the Thames?

8. What happened when Oscar Wilde was in the middle of writing “De Profundis”

9. Where was Arthur Symons born?

10. T/F Arthur Symons died from cancer.

QUIZ TIME!

Create your own poem that relates to the Symbolist Movement!

Make sure it’s personal, irrational, and dream-like ;)

AND GO!

Make it your OWN!

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1948/eliot-bio.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot#Life http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/

yeats-bio.html http://www.notablebiographies.com/We-Z/Yeats-William-

Butler.html#b http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/

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