A poet is not restricted to a set of guidelines when composing, but the use of a specific form gives the reader certain expectations that add to the meaning of a poem when they are (or are not) met. In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge resurrects the tradition of the Old Ballads in a manner that immerses the reader in a compelling world of fantasy. Vivid imaginative occurrences with a marked presence of the supernatural, and a straightforward sequence of events told in chronological order, are fundamental aspects of the Old
Shelley embraced these concepts and incorporated them into her novels, especially Frankenstein. There are many underlying themes and concepts that portray Frankenstein as a romantic novel. One notable impression that Romanticism left was the importance of nature as a source for seeking out ones identity, both emotionally and spiritually. Nature was seen as a place of awe and amazement, in contrast to the urban life that the Industrial Revolution brought about. This element is prominently emphasized in Shelley’s works.
2011 13 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION ○ ○ Gothicism in“The Fall of the House of Usher ” （ 476000） 【Abstract 】As one of the most controversial figures in American literature, most of Edgar Allan Poe ’s works show factors of Gothicism. By a brief analysis of “The Fall of the House of Usher ”, this paper trys to lead to a better understanding of Edgar Allan Poe and show readers a singular and beautiful flower — Gothic literature, and an extraordinary adventure far away from ordinary life. 【Key words 】Gothicism ；Gothic literature ；Adventure 1 Brief Introduction Poe , Edgar Allan, 1809 -1849, American poet, short -story writer, and critic. He is acknowledged today as one of the most brilliant and original writers in American literature ，at the same time, one of the most controversial figures. In recent years Poe is attracting more and more attention of literary critics.
“While writing with 18th century wit and precision, Jane Austen also questions the role of the imagination in developing autonomy.” Identify and evaluate the key “Romantic” elements at play in “Northanger Abbey” and one other related text of your own choosing. The Romantic Period was a sharp contrast to the strict rules and guidelines of the Eighteenth Century. Romantic literature features themes of the exotic, nature, and freedom. Rather than looking to reason and logic for wisdom, the Romantics believed that knowledge was gathered from nature. Northanger Abbey satirizes the popularity of gothic romances and excessive imagination, but Austen also less obviously satirizes the lives and values of the high middle-class and the social and historical paradigms of 18th century patriarchal society.
The most influential and distinctive poets of the American literature are undoubtedly Walt Whitman (1819 -1892) and Emily Dickinson (1830 -1886). When reading the poems of both writers one can realize that there are differences and similarities with respect to their literary style. The similarities that can be found between the poems of both authors are that both are targeted by the literary language and poetic structure which both use in their poems. There are also similarities in the way that both authors write about the same themes such as love, nature, death and religion. Both were as well the founders of their own styles of writing.
Elements of Romanticism in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Posted by Nicole Smith,Dec 6, 2011 Many of the main ideas behind the literary movement of Romanticism can be seen inFrankenstein by Mary Shelley. Although the dark motifs of her most remembered work, Frankenstein may not seem to conform to the brighter tones and subjects of the poems of her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their contemporaries and friends, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley was a contemporary of the romantic poets. Despite this apparent difference, Mary Shelley was deeply influenced by the romantics, and the reader of Frankenstein can certainly identify a number of characteristics of romanticism in this novel. Some critics have argued that Frankenstein is actually more sophisticated than the prose of other romantic writers, as this novel “initiates a rethinking of romantic rhetoric” (Guyer 77). This rethinking is achieved by Shelley’s engaging and simultaneously challenging the typical romantic tropes, which results in the production of a novel that is “more complex than we had earlier thought” (Goodall 19).
In this essay I will be analysing and exploring how the use of gothic conventions influence the reader and convey Wilde’s themes of art, influence, beauty and youth through the supernatural, subconscious and conscious, and the use of a gothic villain. The Picture of Dorian Gray is Wilde’s only novel, exploring the interrelationship of art, life and consequence. Gothic literature started to become popular in the 1800s; an important and innovative reinterpreter of the Gothic in this period was Edgar Alan Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson. Gothic sprouted from the tradition of Romanticism especially in romantic poetry. Gothicism's origin started with the English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, then increasing with
Emily Brontë by her poetic genius style achieved this success in her Gothic novel, Wuthering Heights. This study presents how the novelist shows her characters and how her main female character is considered as the opposite of traditional way of Gothic in presenting women, it also show how wealth and procuring money can change an innocent young lad to a brutal tyrant. To clarify Gender and its characteristics, theories and views of a major feminist critic, Judith Butler, is used in this study. As a conclusion the study shows that, it is the society with its patriarchal standards which defines the social roles based on sex differences for men and women; as Gothic shows how men are powerful and in possession of every aspects of women’s lives, and how they rules women, but Gender studies proves these traditional conventions are wrong and that sex and physics have nothing to do with the social roles. Keywords: Gender, representation, Female, Gothic, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights.
"La Belle Dame sans merci" by John Keats generally follows the characteristics of an old ballad such as "Bonny Barbara Allan", but deviates somewhat in order to give a different final effect to the reader. By comparing the relationships between women and men, the ballad stanzas, and the storycharacteristics of "La Belle Dame sans merci " and "Bonny Barbara Allan", this essay will show that the differences in these aspects contribute to a darker outcome in "La Belle Dame sansmerci". As with many other old ballads, "Bonny Barbara Allan" has a relationship of courtly love between the main characters. Sir John Graeme in the ballad "[f]ell in love with Barbara Allan" (4). There is no explanation to why Sir John Graeme loves her, but she suggests that the reason she never returned the love was because in the past he "slighted" her (20).
Romantic Poets in the 19th Century: A Comparison The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth basically encapsulates the definition of Romanticism in 19th century poetry as a result of Wordsworth adherence in the writing of this poem to most every aspect involved in the formation of that definition. Other famous poetry belonging to the same era also qualify as Romantic poetry based on the same definition, but none quite so fully as The World Is Too Much With Us. A comparison made between Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman and The Lime-Tree Bower My Prison by Samuel Coleridge effectively demonstrates the validity of this assertion. Romantic Poetry in the 19th Century Romanticism in the 19th century came about as a result of circumstances peculiar to the era, such as changes in philosophy, religious dogma, and a rapid growth of industrialization in both England and America. Romantic poets belonging to that era challenged rationalism in areas such as religion, science, and philosophy.