1. Supervisor
Asst. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Zeki
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2. VICTORIAN POETRY
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* Time Period
* General Features / Characteristics
* Romanticism vs. Victorian
* Dramatic Persona
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3. Time / Period
VICTORIAN POETRY
The period during the time of Queen Victoria
after Romantic movement
*
More intense and darker
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4. General Features of the age
VICTORIAN POETRY
• New use of language
• Changing & growing economy and society
• Changing views of religion, a new
perspective
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5. General Features of the age
VICTORIAN POETRY
Repeating themes of religious ideas,
language use and economy by
Robert – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
&
Matthew Arnold
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7. Romantic vs. Victorian
Romantic
• Kind
• Harmonious
• Common man
imagination
• Visionary
• Individual
VICTORIAN POETRY
Victorian
•Harsh
•Objective
•Reality
•Middle Class
•Work /Nation
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8. Dramatic Persona
VICTORIAN POETRY
* Theatrical Monologue
* Implied audience
* Assumed character spoken through the
poet’s words
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9. VICTORIAN POETRY
Alfred Tennyson :
“Victorian England was
a n awful moment of transition .”
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