ENG 108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Enjambment, The Tyger, Trochee
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Romanticism: 1789-1930s reaction to classicism (age of reason-1700s) reaction to enlightenment (approx. 1760-1840: worried about the importance of art in the modern world importance of literature and art: poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world (shelley) Nature and landscape: divine in nature, rural > urban feeling and sympathy > reason and conduct celebration of the individual importance of imagination. Romantic hero: someone who speaks for no one but his/herself, focus on misunderstood individual. Songs of experience came up with relief etching. Mirroring principles that are mutually essential, though in apparent opposition. Ex: justice and mercy, innocence and experience, good and evil. To discern metre, count the # of beats in a line of poetry: Four beats per line (in the for-rests of the night) Words or phrases repeated to introduce successive clauses ( what, and ) The end of a phrase coincides with the end of a line (opposite = enjambment) In what distant deeps or skies (william blake)
