Gulliver’s Travels, Pre-Raphaelites, and Blake: Key Themes
Gulliver’s Travels: Frontispiece
Which are the main elements appearing on it? The horses, a giant (Gulliver), the island, etc. Most of those frontispieces depict the arrival of Gulliver to Liliput. Mervyn Peake: Important illustrator. The implication is that the economy of Ireland depends on the existence of England. Everything in Gulliver’s Travels is understood from a political point of view.
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
It was founded in 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), John Millais, and
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Literary Analysis: Shelley, Blake, Keats, and Wordsworth
The Necessity of Atheism – Percy Shelley
Shelley writes about his own life:
“A love of truth is the only motive.” He attended a lecture on science which piqued his interest in the properties of electricity, magnetism, etc., and it was here that he started to believe in science and not in religion. He also invites the readers “who discover any deficiency in his reasoning” to write and give their own opinions.
He also expressed his political and religious views in a struggle against social injustice,
Read MoreRomantic Literary Movement: Authors and Works
Romanticism: A Literary Revolution (1798-1850)
Romanticism, as a literary movement, spanned from 1798, marked by the publication of Lyrical Ballads, to sometime between the First Reform Bill of 1832 and Wordsworth’s death in 1850. Amidst political upheaval in Europe and the burgeoning Industrial Revolution, this era witnessed a dismantling of rigid societal structures and established worldviews. Emphasis shifted to the individual’s experience and subjective interpretation, rather than dictates
Read MoreAnalyzing William Blake’s Poetic Works: Themes and Context
William Blake’s Poetic Works: Themes and Context
“A Dream” Analysis
“A Dream” is a poem from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789), set during the Romanticist period, also known as Pre-Romanticism or The Age of Blake.
William Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered an influential figure in the history of Romantic Age poetry. Considered mad by contemporaries for his eccentric views, Blake is held in high regard by later critics
Read MoreThe Influence of Nature in Miguel Hernandez’s Poetry
7. Miguel Hernandez and nature
Miguel Hernandez was born in 1910 in Orihuela, a small village in the Spanish Levante, surrounded by the rich garden of the River Segura. His father had won, his childhood and adolescence were spent in the cool mountains and bright Orihuela caring for their herds of goats in the family.
Continued to spend so much time before nature, begins to contemplate carefully and since then was evident in his thinking and ideology, even many of its most beautiful elements appear