THE ROMANTIC AGE
This year we'll study a great period full of emotions and feelings both in poetry and prose.
The so-called "Romantic Poets",like W. Wordsworth, S.T.Coleridge, P.B. Shelley and the others wrote emotional poems bound to the relationship between man and nature as a whole essence in the Universe.
"Daffodils" or "I wandered lonely as a cloud" , one of the most famous Wordsworth's poems.
You can listen to the poem in the video below
the link below for the poem's analysis
S.T.COLERIDGE and his "Rime of the ancient mariner"
Surely, S.T.Coleridge's vision of Nature is quite different from his friend William Wordsworth's : much more powerful and misterious , punishing and rewarding to man when he challenges its rules. This is the case of the "Rime", a ballad according to the Middle Age 's taste when mistrels sung their stories at the king's court. A taste of "gothic" is its leit-motif with water snakes , monsters, storm and tempest to punish the disobedient old man who killed the holy albatross.
to know more about :http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/coleridge/section1.rhtml
If you click on the pic below, you can listen to the famous band Iron Maiden's song whose title is just "The rime of Ancient Mariner", hard rock music which fits the topic of our lesson.
Women in literature in the Romantic age
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
