THE SYMBOLISTS

Megan Gonzales, Jessica ChavezJanrel Leano, Russell Soberano

SYMBOLIST MOVEMENTThe link between the schools of

romanticism and modernismOriginated in France in the 19th centuryMany of the poems will seem obscure on

first few readingsMany symbolists poems deal with dusk,

dawn, and with the time between waking and sleeping

French Symbolists use 3-4 meanings for words to create a resonance among groups of these words

QUESTION #1:What concept links with Romanticism to form the

Symbolist Movement?

Romanticism

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SYMBOLIST MOVEMENT

QUESTION #2:Many symbolist poems deal

with the time between _______ and _______.

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SYMBOLIST MOVEMENTSome refer to the symbolist movement as

the decadent movementDreams or dream states are often showed in

symbolist poemsSymbolists are tempted to write poems that

have to deal with music that concentrates on simultaneous effects

They believed the purpose of art was not to represent reality but to access greater truths

Symbolists love to use the mode of synaesthesia (using of one sense to describe another)

QUESTION #3:The symbolist movement is also referred to as the _ _ _ a _ _ n _ _ _ _ _ m _ n

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QUESTION #4:When did the symbolist

movement begin?

Arthur SymonsBRIEF LIFE:

Born in Milford Haven, Wales, of Cornish parents, Symons was schooled privately, spending much

of his time in France and Italy. 1884–1886 he edited four of Bernard Quaritch's

Shakespeare Quarto Facsimiles, and in 1888–1889 seven plays of the "Henry Irving" Shakespeare.

He became a member of the staff of the Athenaeum in 1891, and of the Saturday Review in 1894

His first volume of verse, Days and Nights (1889), consisted of dramatic monologues

Arthur Symons

Notable works of poetry“White Heliotype”“Colour Studies”“Perfume”

Arthur Symons TPSFASTT: Title: The poem is going to be about the smell of a

woman and how it reminds the speaker of her. Paraphrase: As the smell of her stays, he continues

to think about how everything leaves him but the smell is always there. Other thoughts come and go and so do their memories. Only thoughts of her remain.

Shifts: A shift from the first stanza to the second stanza because it goes from his thoughts and how it always stays in her head then goes to how their memories come and go. Then it shifts from the second stanza to the third stanza because it goes from the memories to how he is left with thoughts of her that always stays.

QUESTION #5:PICK AN EXAMPLE OF

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE FROM THE POEM AND EXPLAIN HOW

IT IS RELATED TO THE SYMBOLIST MOVEMENT

William Butler Yeats

BiographyBorn in Dublin, Ireland in 1865At the age of 15, he was studied painting but

realized he preferred poetry.His writing drew mainly from sources in Irish

mythology and folklore.Maud Gonne, who he met in 1889, was a potent

influence on his poetry.She was an Irish revolutionary who was famous for

her passionate nationalist politics and her beautyMarried to Georgie Hyde LeesWas deeply involved in politics in Ireland.Died at the age of 73 in 1939.

William Butler YeatsNotable Works

His work after 1910 was strongly influenced by Ezra Pound, becoming more modern in its concision and imagery.

Appointed as senator of the Irish Free State in 1922One of the founders of the Abbey Theater in DublinAwarded the Nobel Prize in 1923.“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”“Towards Break of Day”“Broken Dreams”“Leda and the Swan”“Sailing to Byzantium”

William Butler YeatsTitle: The title is stating a place, particularly an island

called Innisfree.Paraphrase: The speaker will wake up and go to Innisfree

where there is a small cabin made of clay. He has rows of beans and a hive for the bees. He will live alone with the swarm of bees. He will have peace alone, but it will come slow. The peace will come from the dropping light of the morning to the point where the crickets chirp. At night is really clear, and noon has a dark shade. He will wake up and go now for everyday he hears lake water splashing on the shore. But he still hears it in his heart when he is away from the island.

Shifts: There is a shift at the beginning of the third stanza when the speaker says he will arise and leave. It shows a shift in setting from an island back to land.

Figurative language: Yeats uses a metaphor in line 6 when he says “veils of morning”. This is saying that the speaker is in a dream-like state. In line 8 Yeats uses imagery to describe the sky. He says “evening full of the linnet’s wings” which can mean a sky full of birds.

AP Style Writing Prompt #1

In the following poem by W.B. Yeats, the speaker addresses the island of Innisfree. Read the poem carefully then write a well-developed essay in which you analyze how specific figurative languages portray Innisfree as a dream-like state.

QUESTION #6:Discuss with your table the theme of the poem.

BONUS CARD if you can relate the theme of the poem to the movement

Oscar Wilde

BIOGRAPHY: Founded St. Mark’s Opthalmic Hospital with his

personal expense Graduated 1871 at Portora Royal School with a

scholarship to attend Trinity College in Dublin Received a Demyship scholarship for further

study at Magdalen College in Oxford. On the year of his graduation he won the

Newdigate Prize for his poem Ravenna. Commenced an affair with a young man,

whose father sued him for libel. Came out of prison 2 years later, emotionally

exhausted, and broke.

Oscar WildeNotable Works:

Vera (1880) The Duchess of Padua

(1883) Salomé (1883) The Happy Prince and

Other Stories (1888) The Picture of Dorian

Gray (1890) Intentions (1891)

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891)

A House of Pomegranates (1891)

Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

A Woman of No Importance (1893)

An Ideal Husband (1895) The Importance of Being

Earnest (1895) "The Ballad of Reading

Gaol "(1898) De Profundis (1905) 

Oscar WildeTitle:

A small part broken or separated from something

Someone had something taken away from them

A metaphor of someone being hurt emotionally

Paraphrase: A subject who is beautiful with

dark red lips and silky hair attracts the poet. He wants her to come back. He tries to persuade her to come back from the sea because it’s overrated and that people can get sick from it. He then talks about the beautiful star, but this time around it’s plural, meaning that the first one was an individual, but with plural the subject stands out. The poet feels sick when he thinks about the sea. He then compliments the subject who is supposedly leaving

to North America where Niagara falls is at. He finishes it with a sense of isolation.

Shifts: The mood of the poem changes

from being sad to desperate.

Figurative Language: “Beautiful star with the crimson

lips” – A subject w/ dark red lips- Personification

“Come back, come back, in the shaking ships”- Being persuasive to get the subject to come back- Metaphor

“O beautiful stars with the crimson lips”- More than 1

“Neath the flag of the wan White Star”- How much the poet thinks about the subject

“On the desolate sea”- Feeling of isolation- “Alliteration

Oscar WildeAttitude:Persuasive- He tries to tell her all the

positive stuff w/ him & all negative w/ where she’s going.

Depressed- He wants the subject to come back.

Title: Someone attractive to the writer has been

separated from him. Passion- The poet shares a kind of passion

for the subject who he wants back due to her attractiveness.

QUESTION #7:Discuss with your table one literary device that catches your attention

and why

Thomas Stearns Eliot(1888-January 4, 1965):Born in St. Louis, Missouri –New

England familyGraduated Harvard; did philosophy

at the Sorbonne Harvard and Mertin College, Oxford

Was a schoolmaster bank clerk, and eventually a Literary Editor for publishing Faber & Faber

Thomas Stearns EliotNOTOBALE WORKS OF POETRY:

Prufrock (1917) Four Quartets (1943) The Waste Land (1922Ash Wednesday (1930)Four Quartets Murder in the Cathedral

(1935) The Family Reunion

(1939) Notes towards the

Definition of Culture (1948)

The Waste LandMurder in the Cathedral

(1935)The Family Reunion

(1939)The Cocktail Party (1949)The Confidential Clerk

(1954)TheElderStatesman(1959)

TECHNIQUES: allusions, lines in a number of foreign languages, aloofness to reality

THEMES: time, death-rebirth, levels of love, quest motif on psychological, metaphysical, and aesthetic level

Thomas Stearns Eliot Title: Hysteria= uncontrollable emotions

◦ Fear and panic Paraphrase:

◦ His attention went towards his lady’s laughter and felt connected to it.

◦ He was so focused on her laugh and thought about it in more depth

◦ A waiter then approached them asking if they wanted to sit in the garden instead

◦ The lady was laughing so much that it made her breasts shake

◦ If her breasts stopped shaking he would be able to focus more on the afternoon until it comes to an end

Tone: imaginative

Thomas Stearns Eliot Figurative Language:

◦ Personification- “involved in her laughter and being part of it”

◦ Metaphor- “her teeth were only accidental stars”◦ Personification- “bruised by the ripple of unseen

muscles” Structure:

◦ Memory◦ Sequence of events

Title: The hysteria was the lady’s laughter

AP Style Writing Prompt #2

In the following poem by Thomas Eliot, the speaker carefully analyzes the woman in front of her. Read the poem carefully and write a well developed essay in which you analyze how the use of figurative language shows the strong connection between the speaker and the woman.

QUESTION #8:Discuss with your table the

theme of the poem.

BONUS CARD if you can relate the theme of the poem to the movement

SYMBOLIST MOVEMENTRESOURCES

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Symbolist_Movement_in_Literature

Books on the symbolist movement:◦http://www.amazon.com/s/?

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QUIZ. QUIZ. QUIZ. QUIZ. QUIZ.

1. What are the two concepts that come together to form the symbolist movement?

2. When did the symbolist movement begin?

3. What is the symbolist movement also referred to as?

4. Whose first volume dealt with dramatic monologues?