Beckett is believed to have said that the name Godot comes from the French "godillot" meaning a military boot. Beckett fought in the war and so spending long periods of time waiting for messages to arrive would have been commonplace for him. The more common interpretation that it might mean "God" is almost certainly wrong. Beckett apparently stated that if he had meant "God," he would have written "God". Godot: it is relatively common name in French
Beckett is believed to have said that the name Godot comes from the French "godillot" meaning a military boot. Beckett fought in the war and so spending long periods of time waiting for messages to arrive would have been commonplace for him. The more common interpretation that it might mean "God" is almost certainly wrong. Beckett apparently stated that if he had meant "God," he would have written "God". Godot: it is relatively common name in French
Beckett is believed to have said that the name Godot comes from the French "godillot" meaning a military boot. Beckett fought in the war and so spending long periods of time waiting for messages to arrive would have been commonplace for him. The more common interpretation that it might mean "God" is almost certainly wrong. Beckett apparently stated that if he had meant "God," he would have written "God". Godot: it is relatively common name in French
Beckett is believed to have said that the name Godot comes from the French "godillot" meaning a military boot. Beckett fought in the war and so spending long periods of time waiting for messages to arrive would have been commonplace for him. The more common interpretation that it might mean "God" is almost certainly wrong. Beckett apparently stated that if he had meant "God," he would have written "God". Godot: it is relatively common name in French
Beckett is believed to have said that the name Godot comes from the French "godillot" meaning a military boot. Beckett fought in the war and so spending long periods of time waiting for messages to arrive would have been commonplace for him. The more common interpretation that it might mean "God" is almost certainly wrong. Beckett apparently stated that if he had meant "God," he would have written "God". Godot: it is relatively common name in French
Beckett is believed to have said that the name Godot comes from the French "godillot" meaning a military boot. Beckett fought in the war and so spending long periods of time waiting for messages to arrive would have been commonplace for him. The more common interpretation that it might mean "God" is almost certainly wrong. Beckett apparently stated that if he had meant "God," he would have written "God". Godot: it is relatively common name in French
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Romanticism
Romanticism was a movement of the 18th and 19th centuries that marked the reaction in literature, philosophy, art, religion, and politics from the neoclassicism and formality of the 17th century. It may be defined as “liberalism in literature”, meaning especially the freeing of the artist and writer from restraints and rules and suggesting that phase of individualism marked by the encouragement of revolutionary political ideas. Romanticism is the predominance of the imagination over reason and formal rules.
Among the aspects of the romantic movement in English literature are love of nature (the most important—nature is the living garment of God), interest in the past (especially the Medieval period), individualism, a reaction against whatever characterized Neo-Classicism, interest in the common man and human rights, sympathy with animal life and children, and the idea of democracy. The Romantics preferred the simplicity of natural scenery to modern industrialized life. The Romantic movement in English poetry is said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of The Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge. In this course we will examine the poetry of 5 major English romantic poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats.
William Blake’s Poetry
In 1789 William Blake published his Songs of Innocence. These were poetic songs, printed in colored letters accompanied by decorative pictures intermingling with the text and hand painted by Blake himself. The environment of the Songs of Innocence is one of harmony, and Nature is undisturbed in her feminine role of tending to the needs of children. The world of childhood is an imaginative existence that is sympathetic and reassuring.
“Introduction to Songs of Innocence”
The “Introduction” to the Songs of Innocence is perhaps the single most perfect lyric ever written by Blake. It anticipates the poet’s intent to write songs that “Every child may joy to hear.” His very inspiration has come from a child situated upon a cloud who has at first requested, “Pipe a song about a Lamb,” then repeated, “Piper, sit thee down and write in a book that all may read.” The poet at the child’s wish has devoted himself to writing for “every child” in a book that all may read.
“The Lamb”
An important poem in the group, “The Lamb” deals with the figure of Jesus and is typical of Blake’s enthusiastic acceptance of New Testament doctrine. The first verse begins with a question: “Little Lamb, who made thee?” The second verse refers to the divine answer: “Little Lamb, I’ll tell thee…He is called by thy name…He became a little child…I a child, and thou a lamb, We are called by his name.” The unstated answer is, of course, the infant Jesus, the child and lamb in all of us, also the spirit of innocence. The lamb is Blake’s symbol of innocence. Note the poem’s simplicity of language and its easy flow.
“The Little Black Boy”
One of the most famous poems in the Songs of Innocence is “The L ...
LITERATURE I UPHELD- THE ROMANTICS AND SUBJECTIVITY: SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGERituparna Ray Chaudhuri
Coleridge's Treatment of nature and the Tranquillity : The phenomenal description on own thoughts regard me to describe Coleridge, along with William Wordsworth, was instrumental in initiating a poetic revolution in the early nineteenth century which is known as the Romantic Movement. Coleridge invokes the Divine Spirit that blows upon the wild Harp of Time. Time is like the stringed musical instrument on which the Spirit produces sweet harmonious melodies. Coleridge is perhaps best known for his haunting ballad Rime of Ancient Mariner, the dream-like Kubla Khan and the unfinished Christabel, but he wrote several other smaller poems, quite remarkable for their imaginative power. (Edited with own analysis)…
7. Theme: Creation
• The opening question enacts what will
be the single dramatic gesture of the
poem, and each subsequent stanza
elaborates on this conception. Blake is
building on the conventional idea that
nature, like a work of art, must in some
way contain a reflection of its creator.
8. Theme: Creator
• One of the central themes in his major
works is that of the Creator as a
blacksmith.
• Blake identified God's creative process
with the work of an artist. And it is art
that brings creation to its fulfillment --
by showing the world as it is, by
sharpening perception, by giving form
to ideas.
13. Key Images:
• The Tyger: symbolizes much that is
terrible and frightening.
• The Smithy: represents a traditional
image of artistic creation; here Blake
applies it to the divine creation of the
natural world.
15. Refrain
• Repetition in the first and last couplet
of each stanza makes these lines into a
refrain, and helps to give the poem its
song-like quality.
16. Apostrophe
• The poem's apostrophic form
contributes to the effect of naiveté
since the situation of a child talking to
an animal is a believable one, and not
simply a literary contrivance.
17. Symbolism
• It shows the whole connectedness of
all things, it connects it all with the
creator, the lamb, Jesus, through the
use of the extended metaphor. He tells
him how Jesus was just like a lamb,
using symbolic language, comparing
Jesus to a child. This creates a third
connection, a child is like a lamb,
Jesus is like a child. ”
19. Rhetorical Question
• "The Tyger", which actually finishes
without an answer, is (on this level)
about your own experience of not
getting a completely satisfactory
answer to this essential question of
faith.
20. Allusion
• "When the stars threw down their
spears / And watered heaven with their
tears"
• A reference to the battle in Heaven
between God and the rebel angels
21. Imagery
• Words work together to reinforce the
concept of God as a blacksmith
• anvil, hammer, chain, furnace, frame
22. Repetition
• The repeated use of word the "dare" to
replace the "could" of the first stanza
introduces a dimension of aspiration
and willfulness into the sheer might of
the creative act.
23. Engraving from Songs
of Innocence. How does
the image convey the
tone, mood, setting, and
action of the poem?
24.
25. • Colors are pastel and light by nature:
representative of nature
• A gentle, pastoral setting
• The trees gently intertwine to create a
sense of protection
26. Engraving from Songs
of Experience. How
does the image convey
the tone, mood, setting,
and action of the poem?
27.
28. • The darker colors create a menacing
atmosphere
• The oranges of the tyger are symbolic
of hell
• The smile of the animal suggests
slyness
29. How do the poems
work harmoniously to
convey a similar theme
or message?
30. • The two poems give a perspective on
religion that includes the good and clear
as well as the terrible and inscrutable.
• These poems complement each other to
produce a fuller account than either offers
independently.
• They offer a good instance of how Blake
himself stands somewhere outside the
perspectives of innocence and experience
he projects.
31. In what manner do the two
poems show the two
contrary states of the
human soul?
32. • The contrast is made explicitly in a comparison
between `The Lamb' and it's counterpart `The
Tyger.”
• The former is all gentle rhythms and simple,
comforting question-answer dynamics, there are no
such eases in `Tyger.”
• “The Tyger” evokes a persistent, driving, even tribal
feeling, and the poem is all problematic inquiry
without resolution or answer.
• these two worlds are animals as antithetically paired
as tigers and lambs.
