The poem describes a calm night scene by the sea near Dover Beach. The speaker hears the waves crashing and sees it as a metaphor for human suffering and misery. The poem reflects on the loss of religious faith as the "Sea of Faith" recedes, leaving humanity feeling uncertain and adrift "on a darkling plain". The discoveries of science have revealed a world without absolute truths or certainties, replacing faith. The speaker urges clinging to human love and connection in a world now bereft of spiritual meaning.
Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. His sonnets talk about love, friendship etc.The sonnets to the young man express overwhelming, obsessional love. The main cause of debate has always been whether it remained platonic or became physical.The first 17 poems, traditionally called the procreation sonnets, are addressed to the young man urging him to marry and have children in order to immortalize his beauty by passing it to the next generation.Other sonnets express the speaker's love for the young man; brood upon loneliness, death, and the transience of life; seem to criticise the young man for preferring a rival poet; express ambiguous feelings for the speaker's mistress; and pun on the poet's name. The final two sonnets are allegorical treatments of Greek epigrams referring to the "little love-god" Cupid.
Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. His sonnets talk about love, friendship etc.The sonnets to the young man express overwhelming, obsessional love. The main cause of debate has always been whether it remained platonic or became physical.The first 17 poems, traditionally called the procreation sonnets, are addressed to the young man urging him to marry and have children in order to immortalize his beauty by passing it to the next generation.Other sonnets express the speaker's love for the young man; brood upon loneliness, death, and the transience of life; seem to criticise the young man for preferring a rival poet; express ambiguous feelings for the speaker's mistress; and pun on the poet's name. The final two sonnets are allegorical treatments of Greek epigrams referring to the "little love-god" Cupid.
The ancient mariner is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In this poem, he talks about an old sailor who happened to stop one of the three wedding guests to listen to his woeful tale. The wedding guest was bewitched by the mariner's glittering eye and he sat down to hear his narrative of his disastrous journey he undertook.
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1)
Read chapter 20 in Coffin/Stacey.
(read something about Coffin/Stacey and write just one pragpragh about it)
2)
read some selections of
Romantic Poems
and write a one-page paper in which you examine some of the main characteristics of the Romantic era. Please be sure to include quoted material.
Romantic Poems
:
Samuel Coleridge
, "Kubla Khan" (1798)
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree;
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But O, that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced;
Amid whose swift, half-intermittent burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail.
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean;
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw.
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
`Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
William Wordsworth
, "The Solitary Reaper" (1807)
Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lassl
leaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently passl
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strahl;
O listen for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shally haunt,
Among Arabian sands:
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard
In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.
Will no on.
Apresento aqui uma introdução à poesia de Samuel Taylor Coleridge, que em colaboração com William Wordsworth, é considerado fundador do movimento romântico na Inglaterra. Poeta inspirado e profícuo, seus versos foram as sementes das principais ideias que vicejaram durante o final do século XVIII e início do século XIX. .
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OUT of the cradle endlessly rocking,
Out of the mocking-bird’s throat, the musical shuttle,
Out of the Ninth-month midnight,
Over the sterile sands, and the fields beyond, where the child, leaving his bed, wander’d alone, bare-headed, barefoot,
Down from the shower’d halo, 5
Up from the mystic play of shadows, twining and twisting as if they were alive,
Out from the patches of briers and blackberries,
From the memories of the bird that chanted to me,
From your memories, sad brother—from the fitful risings and fallings I heard,
From under that yellow half-moon, late-risen, and swollen as if with tears, 10
From those beginning notes of sickness and love, there in the transparent mist,
From the thousand responses of my heart, never to cease,
From the myriad thence-arous’d words,
From the word stronger and more delicious than any,
From such, as now they start, the scene revisiting, 15
As a flock, twittering, rising, or overhead passing,
Borne hither—ere all eludes me, hurriedly,
A man—yet by these tears a little boy again,
Throwing myself on the sand, confronting the waves,
I, chanter of pains and joys, uniter of here and hereafter, 20
Taking all hints to use them—but swiftly leaping beyond them,
A reminiscence sing.
2
Once, Paumanok,
When the snows had melted—when the lilac-scent was in the air, and the Fifth-month grass was growing,
Up this sea-shore, in some briers, 25
Two guests from Alabama—two together,
And their nest, and four light-green eggs, spotted with brown,
And every day the he-bird, to and fro, near at hand,
And every day the she-bird, crouch’d on her nest, silent, with bright eyes,
And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never disturbing them, 30
Cautiously peering, absorbing, translating.
3
Shine! shine! shine!
Pour down your warmth, great Sun!
While we bask—we two together.
Two together! 35
Winds blow South, or winds blow North,
Day come white, or night come black,
Home, or rivers and mountains from home,
Singing all time, minding no time,
While we two keep together. 40
4
Till of a sudden,
May-be kill’d, unknown to her mate,
One forenoon the she-bird crouch’d not on the nest,
Nor return’d that afternoon, nor the next,
Nor ever appear’d again. 45
And thenceforward, all summer, in the sound of the sea,
And at night, under the full of the moon, in calmer weather,
Over the hoarse surging of the sea,
Or flitting from brier to brier by day,
I saw, I heard at intervals, the remaining one, the he-bird, 50
The solitary guest from Alabama.
5
Blow! blow! blow!
Blow up, sea-winds, along Paumanok’s shore!
I wait and I wait, till you blow my mate to me.
6
Yes, when the stars glisten’d, 55
All night long, on the prong of a moss-scallop’d stake,
Down, almost amid the slapping waves,
Sat the lone singer, wonderful, causing tears.
He call’d on his mate;
He pour’d forth the meanings which I, of all men,.
2. The poem
The sea is calm to-night.
The Sea of Faith
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand;
But now I only hear
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Retreating, to the breath
Only, from the long line of spray
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,
And naked shingles of the world.
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand, Ah, love, let us be true
Begin, and cease, and then again begin, To one another! for the world, which seems
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring To lie before us like a land of dreams,
The eternal note of sadness in. So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Sophocles long ago
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
Heard it on the A gaean, and it brought
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Of human misery; we
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
3. Mood: calm/ beautiful
Power of three A The sea is calm to-night.
B The tide is full, the moon lies fair
A Upon the straits; on the French coast the light Looking
Talking to C Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand;
someone D Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Smelling
B Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Hearing D Only, from the long line of spray
C Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,
E Listen! you hear the grating roar
Rhythm of the F Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
waves C At their return, up the high strand,
G Begin, and cease, and then again begin, Mood: sad
F With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
G The eternal note of sadness in.
enjambement
personification
simile
metaphor
4. Mood: melancholy/
sad
Sophocles long ago
sound- a metaphor for
Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought
human misery
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
enjambement
personification
simile
metaphor
5. Faith- sea The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
sea going away as But now I only hear
faith: Bright and visual
faith becomes less Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
important Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
lack of faith: dark and bleak, heard
enjambement
personification
simile
metaphor
6. new discoveries- Ah, love, let us be true
seem amazing and To one another! for the world, which seems
beautiful To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
new discoveries-
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; Dark- no faith
taken away faith
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
enjambement
personification
simile
metaphor
7. Matthew arnold
Born 24 December 1822
British
Saddened by the loss of faith as
science became more important
to people
Died 15 April 1888
Most well know poems are
‘Dover Beach’, ‘The Scholar-
Gipsy’ and ‘Thyrsis’