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4. Romantic poets
§ The best known Romantic poets were William Blake, William
Wordsworth, Samuel T. Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and John
Keats.
§ Their poetry was dependent on various features peculiar to their
time: a reaction against previous literary styles, arguments with
eighteenth century and earlier philosophers, the decline in formal
Anglican worship and the rise of dissenting religious sects, and the
rapid and unprecedented industrialization of Britain and
consequent changes in its countryside.

5. Lyrical Ballads
book of poems (1798) by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor
Coleridge. It was the first major work of Romantic literature, and
contained Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey and Coleridge's The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner. In the second edition (1800) Wordsworth
added a famous introduction saying that poetry should be drawn
from ordinary life and written in plain language.

6. Tintern Abbey
§ a beautiful ruined abbey (= religious building) by the River Wye,
near the border between England and Wales. It was originally built
in the 12th century. It has been painted by many artists,
including Turner, and Wordsworth wrote a romantic poem about
the landscape around it in his Lyrical Ballads.

7. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
§ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, poem in seven parts
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that first appeared in Lyrical
Ballads, published collaboratively by Coleridge and William
Wordsworth in 1798. The title character detains one of three
young men on their way to a wedding feast
and mesmerizes him with the story of his youthful experience
at sea—his slaughter of an albatross, the deaths of his fellow
sailors, his suffering, and his eventual redemption.

11. § "My Heart Leaps Up" is a short lyric poem
by the Romantic poet William
Wordsworth.
§ It was written on March 26, 1802 (while
Wordsworth was living at Dove
Cottage in the scenic Lake District of
northern England, according to the
diary his sister Dorothy kept of their
day-to-day lives), and later published in
1807 as part of Wordsworth's Poems, in
Two Volumes.

13. § Like many of his poems from this period, "My Heart Leaps Up"
was inspired by nature, as the speakers describes the feeling
of joy upon seeing a simple rainbow.
§ The poem also appreciates the importance of carrying child-
like enthusiasm and wonder throughout life, an idea that
Wordsworth returns throughout much of his work.

14. § "My Heart Leaps Up" is a short lyric poem by the Romantic poet
William Wordsworth. It was written on March 26, 1802 (while
Wordsworth was living at Dove Cottage in the scenic Lake District
of northern England, according to the diary his sister Dorothy kept
of their day-to-day lives), and later published in 1807 as part of
Wordsworth's Poems, in Two Volumes. Like many of his poems
from this period, "My Heart Leaps Up" was inspired by nature, as
the speakers describes the feeling of joy upon seeing a simple
rainbow. The poem also appreciates the importance of carrying
child-like enthusiasm and wonder throughout life, an idea that
Wordsworth returns throughout much of his work.

16. nature
childhood
beauty
aging

17. § The poem’s simplicity carries over into its use of rhyme scheme.
There are a total of nine lines in this piece. Each line ends with one
of 4 sounds, each sound is repeated twice, except “man,” which
ends two lines and is rhymed with “began.”
§ The rhyme scheme of this piece can be sketched as ABCCABCDD.
Regarding the meter, the poem is written in iambic tetrameter.
There are three variations: the second line is in iambic trimeter, the
sixth line contains two iambs, and the last line is in iambic
pentameter.

18. § literary devices that make the poetic thoughts more appealing to
readers.
• a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa : It
occurs in the first line “My heart leaps up when I behold”.
• repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses,
sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect : Lines three to five begin
similarly. It is an example of anaphora.
§ exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. : It occurs in “Or let
me die”. This line is also a rhetorical exclamation.

19. • a figure of speech in which a word or phrase denoting one kind of object or
action is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them: : In
the line “The Child is the father of the Man,” Wordsworth implicitly
compares a child to a would-be father.
• an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an
indirect or passing reference. : This poem probably contains an allusion to the
rainbow of Noah.