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The Passionate Shepherd To His Love
pastoral - shepherd to flock - David - Bible
Seductive Poem
Return to nature - society restricts
Sonnet 73
older man to younger man
Shakespearean sonnet - end of Renaissance so popular
‘Addressing the Fair Youth’ 73 of 154 abt age 71-4 abt mortality
To Virgins, To Make Much Of Time
ironic - group of poems - Hesperides - nymphs guarding apples of immortality -
Carpe Diem - Seize the day -importance of youth
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
Gulliver’s Travels - satirical depiction of human nature
Modest proposal -adopted voice of heartless English
General John Churchill - extend war and diff political views
London
chartering
French Revolution - Romantic
influenced by visionary experiences
on decay of society and political corruption
The Schoolboy
Pastoral Poem - commune w nature
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
Romantic and French Revolution
Extract from The Prelude Book IV
Romantic
Lake District - his home
autobiographical - spiritual growth of poet - published posthumously - narrative - colloquial
The Collar
conceit - extended metaphor
parliament then holy orders then death
written while ill + struggling w devotion
There is a Garden in Her Face
Renaissance love song - originally to music - in anthology of his songs
Shakespeare’s ideas of lives like seasons and lovers like summer days
Ozymandias
Radical - leaflet on atheism
Ozymandias reflects him
Can be read as criticism of ppl/systems having ultimate power
Romantic and French Revolution - not Reign of Terror tho
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
To France - illegitimate daughter - apprehension but also optimism
sisters journals ‘various troubles and disasters’
Petrarchan Sonnet - Romantic - typically don’t like cities
Kubla Khan
opiates for pain - Mongolia vs Lake District - forgot half after dream - unfinished and dream-like- supernatural
very influential and controversial Romantic - mates with + wrote book w Wordsworth
The Sublime and Awe
Epitaph on a Well Known Poet
Ireland not happy due to religious turmoil
Satirist and political propagandist - catholic and hero to Irish nationalists -Romantic and Patriotic
disliked him diff political/religious/social views + brownnosed king
She Walks in Beauty
Cousin’s widow - at a ball - poem next morning
Blazon - poetic list of woman’s beauty hyperbolic and similes
Incredibly famous Romantic - known for loose morals
England in 1819
King George III - mad - son ruling in stead - Anti-Royalist
Romantic and French Revolution - power to the ppl - no tyranny
Peterloo Massacre peaceful protest on voting rights but cavalry sent in - 15 dead - Romantic link
To Autumn
written in Winchester - took same walk every day - in letter to a friend
knew dying when he wrote it - fits Shakespeare’s and Romantic Ideas on lives linked to seasons
Sonnet 43 How do I love Thee
Sonnets from the Portuguese - misleading - my little Portuguese
Devoted to Catholicism and classics
Eloped with husband as father disapproved - poems dedicated to him
The Kraken
key figure in maritime history since 13th century
Norse mythology
poems have common theme of mythology or myths of sea
industrial revolution and fire
Remembrance
Gondall Story - invented w sister - elegy from Princess Rosina to Prince Julius 15 years after death
fitting typical Victorian poetry - alienated lonely woman without male companion
Bronte same - no known partner and died single and young
Set in Britain Burial Ground
Song
soul sleep - between life and death
popular at funerals — to those left behind
written at 18 - rare to succeed - Victorian era
had been ill - 15 - acceptance of her mortality
lived single - with family
The Darkling Thrush
‘By the Century’s Death Bed’ -originally as written end of year and century
inspired by home in Dorset and famous author/poet - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Voice
Emma Poems - to his wife
married for decades but estranged and he has affairs
‘What I think of My Husband’ - lived in regret
God’s Grandeur
Jesuit Priest - ascetic life - no luxuries
Sprung Rhythm - speech like poetry
Victorian v religious and converted R.C. late in life
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Maude Gonne - unrequited love
Irish myth - Aedh Wishes for…
Irish God of Death
Leisure
‘songs of joy and others’
move away from industry and business - didn’t like industrialisation - aftermath of industrial rev.
spent time as a tramp travelling America - lost foot and returned to England
