ENGL 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Lyric Poetry, Abstract And Concrete, Pantheism
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Curtailed civil liberties (political violence ie water loo) Rapid undustrialization and urbanization (factories, mines, manufacturing, textile industry, etc) Romantic poets react to this and retreat to the countryside and reflect. The poetic concerns of romanticism: working of human mind and memory, altered states of mind (wordsworth called states of excitement, unconventional spiritual beliefs; non-conformism (resistance to religion), pantheism, atheism, etc, public role of the poet. At least document whats gloing on around them, how they interpret the world that is going on around them, etc) How do we balance the concerns of this life and the afterlife: wordsworth. Makes you realize what is missing after it is gone. Mariner is technically pardoned but what"s the price to pay: shelley. John keats (1795-1821: a more private dream-like poetry, life. Grew up in the wake of wrodsworth and coleridge. Orphan, got tb from his brother, couldn"t marry because of his infection, etc. shitty life.
