ENG308Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lake Poets, Jane Austen, Calvinism
ENG308 November 28 2017
Test:
Part 1: Passage identification, author given
-12 passages, answer 10 of the 12
-1st sentence: identify what the poem is, broad generalized statements that show
that we know how one talks about this poem: think about saying the obvious, the
kinds of things you think other people in the class might say
-2nd sentence: use your second sentence to say something a bit more specific, draw
conclusions about words, images, etc.
-balance between saying the big issue type things, introduction to romantic
literature, then use the second sentence to say something a bit more surprising,
interesting
2nd Part
-4 passages, write paragraphs on three of them
-read the passages carefully, think about what you want to say about the paragraph,
how the images and the metaphor’s in the passage communicate the author’s or
speaker’s understanding of him/herself
-talk about what’s there in close detail, but also how it relates more broadly to the
text, the author, or romanticism as a whole
-studying: make sure you’ve read through most of the authors
-bring your own lined paper
-be
Byron
-our first romantic celebrity
-becomes the idea of what a romantic poet is in the 19th C
-global literary phenomenon
-often his poetry was read as a way to get into the man himself
-use literature in order to create a certain kind of romantic self
-literary market place gets going
-one of the first celebrity authors
-not separating your writing from who you are
-modern day equivalents , Madonna, David Bowie
-art as a reflection of who you are
-Bowie was very close to Byron in many ways, Byron was also bisexual
-he also crossed cultural boundaries
-he was a Scottish aristocrat
-family was poor: most of the money he got was from his career as a writer
-made a lot of enemies, notorious for attacking Coleridge, wordsworth, Southey
-saw himself as someone who balanced reason and passion, saw the lake poets as a
bunch of adolescents with isolated, narrow provincial ideas
-byron and vampires
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Document Summary
1st sentence: identify what the poem is, broad generalized statements that show that we know how one talks about this poem: think about saying the obvious, the kinds of things you think other people in the class might say. 2nd sentence: use your second sentence to say something a bit more specific, draw conclusions about words, images, etc. Balance between saying the big issue type things, introduction to romantic literature, then use the second sentence to say something a bit more surprising, interesting. 4 passages, write paragraphs on three of them. Read the passages carefully, think about what you want to say about the paragraph, how the images and the metaphor"s in the passage communicate the author"s or speaker"s understanding of him/herself. Talk about what"s there in close detail, but also how it relates more broadly to the. Studying: make sure you"ve read through most of the authors text, the author, or romanticism as a whole.
