COR 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Luddite, Ned Ludd, Romantic Poetry
12 Apr 2017
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Summary: looks at exps from best-known poets & is testing connections & revealing places where they hold as well as where they don"t. Began with blake and wordsworth and bryon. Repulsed by satanic mills & getting-and-spending of modern day: mindful of the ruined past. Association of luddites w romantic poets: a clich . It is usually supposed by the luddite comparison that poetry is mostly about the. Themes it contains, that romantic poetry un-problematically reflects an anti- technology theme and that we only need to apply the truths of poetry to the facts of history (and vice versa) in order to better understand both. Writers were able to express what the luddites could only do: the poets were amazing for being able to give real meaning to the. Examples of poems: keats"s romantic nature, robin hood. John keats: accused of being a suburban poet.
