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
Analysis of Bécquer’s Rhyme LXVI: Origin and Destiny
Rhyme LXVI by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer is a profound exploration of human existence, delving into themes of pain, anxiety, and the question of immortality. This poem, belonging to the fourth series of Bécquer’s works, projects unsent pain and anxiety onto the human condition, death, and the question of immortality. This series ranges from LXXIX.
Bécquer’s work aligns with the post-Romantic style, characterized by simplicity and melancholy. Observable topics include vocabulary.
Subject Matter
The central
Read MoreModern Age Literature: Victorianism to Edwardian Era
The Coming of the Modern Age
Queen Victoria’s reign ended in 1901, but the Victorian Age effectively ended about twenty years earlier. The spirit of Victorianism began to fade with figures like Swinburne, the rebel; Fitzgerald, the pessimist; and Butler, the satirist. Literature produced from 1880 to 1914 is characterized by either an attempt to find substitutes for religion, or by a sense of spiritual emptiness and hopelessness.
Many substitutes for religion were explored. One was Art, with Walter
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