ENGL 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Kio, Onomatopoeia, Freaked
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Tennyson: modernizing ancient myth much like ode to psyche and keats. In the victorian period so there is a change in perspective. Where as the romantic period is one of revolution and inspiration (democratic revolution in usa and france) a critique and revolution of social norms. Victorian is conservative: maintaining the traditional values of the form of the family and the nation, including the monarchy; a perspective that wants to hold on to royalty, the enchantment and prestige of it in a modern context. Even more than keats, he"s an outsider poet. The peasant poet; hardly read during his time. The crucial role of delacey in mary shelley"s treatment in the function of narrative. He is crucial because he is the one who hears the creature story initially. The fact of his blindness is a crucial part of what shelley is telling us of the potential of literature.
