ENG 360M Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Romantic Poetry, Ironism, Antihero
13 Oct 2016
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Introduction: long 19th century, 1789, french revolution > challenge to monarchic structure of europe (important to. 1st generation: william blake, visionary mythologist, creates his own mythologies, wordsworth, nature poet, priviliges nature over imagination, coleridge, nature poet, but privileges imagination over nature, often seen as the inventor of systematic . Parliament: catholic church believes the relationship between an individual and god is a mediated one, **take a look of the book of thell, read the marriage of heaven and hell** ***wordsworth next week, read tenternabby, resolution&independence, the intonations ode, Essentially having an anxiety attack about being a poet. The leech gatherer is used to symbolize/embody resolution and independence. The leech gatherer is described as being part of the natural world. He is bearing the weight of existence (doubled over with it) Questions posed in the poem are never truly answered. The leech gatherer is not as profound as he tries to make him.
