Romantic and Victorian

1. the romantic period is to say that it started with the french revolution in 1789 and ended with parliamentary reforms of 1832 that laid the political foundations for modern Britain. the era was dominated by six poets: three (william Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge) were born before the period began and lived through most or all of it while three others (the scond Generation of percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keat, and George Gordon, lord Byron) began their shorts careers in the second decade of the new century but died before 1825. Beginning in America in 1776, an age of revolution swpt across western Europe, releasing political, Economic, and social forces that produced, during the next century, some of the most radical changes ever experienced in human life.

the American Revolution had lost for england her thirteen colonies. this was a great economic loss, but it was also a loss of prestige and of confidence. the more radical revolution in france, which started with the storming of the prison called the bastille on july 14,1789, had far more serious repercussions.

2. I think that life was kind of difficult for some of these normal people back in that time. i mean war was everywhere and people wasnt safe from anything. and they just tried to live a normal life and some didnt make it because of the lifestyle they were living in. it seems like things kept getting worse by the day. I truely honestly think that i wouldnt make it in that time period.

3. They wanted to express and responded to social and economic changes caused by rapid industrialization and to governmental policies that ignored the problems of the poor.romantic writers selfconsciously used the elements of romance in an attempt to go bak beyond the refinements of neoclassicl literature to older types of writing that they saw as more Genuine. the term romantic related to being fascinated with youth and innocence, to questioning authority adn tradition for idealistic purposes, and to developing an awarness of adapting to change. the in romantic poetry speack in the language of feelings, or of the heart. this exploration of the emotional experiences of ordinary people was revolutionary.the romantic poets found a way through the imagination to fullfill the poet's traditional role as "prophet, priest, and king" in a time of change.

• William Blake- http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/Garden_Of_Love.htm

this poem is a love poem. its basicly talking about he laying someone he truely loves to sleep. he also says that love lay sleeping. like someone or person he loves is sleeping and he is siting thier watching them go to sleep. and he sent himself out to look for love and garden where he found something he never saw before in his life. it seems like the person he loves is dead and he is daydreaming about that person. this poem is a good example of the Romantic period poetry because its talking about his heart and feelings for whom his talking about.

• William Wordsworth-http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/IWanderedLonely.htm

this poem is talking about how he is lonely as a cloud. and all of the sudden he sees a crowd. then beneath the tress was person that was dancing and fluttering into the breeze. he was saying that they where spirital dancers and that the ocean is dancing right beside them while they are dancing . he is a poet inlove and lost of fimding it. he gave up at first but he just but he found something that caught his eye. this poem is a good example of the romantic period because they are talking about love and how to find it.

• George Gordon-http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/She_Walks_In.htm

this poem is talking about a woman that is very beautiful to this man. and he says that this woman is was in beauty. her eyes is best dark and bright.when he looks at her he think of the good things he would like have with her. and he is sayin the way he feels for this female.and that his heart is so innocent. because he loves this girl to the fullest. this girl brings joy to his soul. this poem is a very good example of romantic period because this poem is talking about the feel of love and where it comes from.

• Percy Bysshe Shelley-http://www.artofeurope.com/shelley/she2.htm

this poem is saying, why he cant get the kisses the love that everybody gets from there partner. he is basicly saying that everybody kiss but him. he dont kiss nobody. people kiss in heavan. and he is very lonely. it sounds like he is jelouse in a way being sarcastic about the whole kissing thing. and he was talking about how the heavan mixed with sweet emotions.this peom is an example of the romantic period because it has this lonely attitude in it.

John Keats-http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/The_Human_Seaso.htm

this poem is mainley talking about the seasons of the year. and it is also talking about how beauty takes an easy span. and he is saying how summer is when it is luxuriously. he talking about the spring and how it honied cud of youthful thought he lovesTo ruminate. that his soul has in its Autumn, when his wings He furleth close. this poem is the example of the romantic period because the detailing of the poem.

STEP THREE: THE VICTORIAN PERIOD.

1. the Victorian era was a time of a relative peace and economic growth. the britsh empire grew steadily, the industrial revolution extented to the middle and working classes.after Napolean's defeat at water loo in 1815, Britain was not involved in a major European war until world war I began in 1914.the empire that had begun in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with british interests india and north america grew steadily until by 1900, victoria was queen -empress of mor than two hundred million people living outside great britain.reform Act in 1867, which gave the right to vote to all working-class men except for agricultural workers.
2. after reading these events i think that life for the people that lived back then was hard for some.but to others it was alright. kids where homeless and had to work in factories and making little of nothing. and kids dieing from the factory dust in it. i think i was hard period for the normal people that lived there.

3.biggest difference between the romantic period and the victorian period is that the two periods has a diffrent style and texture from each other. the both periods changed alot. in time when the victorian period became it was alot of change in it . the facory act came. and etc.

4. over the Century, the trust in a transcendental power inherited from the Romantics eroded, giving way to uncertainly and spirtual doubt. Late-victorian writers turned to a pessimistic exploration of the human struggle against indifferent natural forces.victorian writing reflects the danger and the benefits of rapid industrialization, while encouraging readers to examine closely thier own understanding of the era's progress.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson-http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/Fatima.htm

this poem is talking about how much he love this person and his heart throb for this person and his love for this person is bitter sweet. he is saying that his love is falling from my constant mind, and Last night he wasted hateful hours Below the city's eastern towers. that his love is deep for this person he would roll in flowers for them. he gets nervouse around this person and his blood feel like fire when they call his name. this poem is an example of the romantic poetry. because its telling the real feelings for the person he love.

Robert Browning-http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/My_Star.htm

this poem is about an certain star. the colors on the star is different and its kind of romantic because the poem is talking about how he really like this star. and his friends know about this star . this poem is about a man interested in a star. but star to me a female or a person he is trying to connect to. this poem is a very good example of the romantic poerty. because he is using his imagination.

Matthew Arnold-purple book pg.848 Dover beach.

this poem is about the beach that is so calm at night. and the tied is full and the moon lies fair on the straits. he is talking about how the england and french coast the light gleams. he mainly talking the sea and how the waves come on the shore and wash away everything thats near the shore. this poem is the example of the romantic poetry because the poem is the same but different style of the romantic poetry.

Thomas Hardy-

this poem is about this couple in a sunless church. the man was about to die in her arms. and he told her to tell him that she loved him but she lied to him. and his life was gone. he died in her arms and she thinks about the lie she said to him for a long time. this poem is an example of the romantic poetry. because this is a love and a hate poem.

Restoration

1. Charles II had a number of illegitimate children, but no longer heir. when he died in 1685, he was succeeded by his brother James II, a practicing Roman Catholics had not only set fire to london and caused other disasters, but were activity plotting to hand the country over to the pop. when jame's queen produced a little boy-a catholic heir pressure on the royal family became so great that in 1688, they suddendly fled to france. the so called Glorious (bloodless) Revolution (1688) was accomplished. James II was succeeded by his protestant daughter, Mary, and her dutch husband, William of orange. Ever since, the rulers of england have been, at least nominally anglicans. I think that the event was so important, because they wanted to hand the country to the pope and they wanted to battle it all out. this event was a history to learn. and they didnt have to kill to put sombody as king.

2. "Satire" means- when a group of people or an idea or attitude dealing with graphic arts and performing arts. of ten very funny, its not humour but criticism of an event.

• The Simpsons
• king of the hill
• south park
• family guy
• my wife and kid
• source magazine
• people magazine

3. the modest proposal is talking about the kids that is born into this world poor and on the backs and side there mother. and that the female sex is followed by three, four, or six children, and they are all in rags. it was talking about instead of the mothers working to take care of their kids they beg strangers to give them money in the streets to feed their kids. when the kids become 1 years old he will provide for them. he calculated that about two thousands wives are breeders in his kingdom.

• this Satire, because it is critcizing the woman out here that doesnt take care or there children. the modest proposal is mainly a Satire in a sarcastic way . in different forms of speach.

4. from the Diary of Samuel Pepys- october 13, 1660. Apublic execution, private Explosion:

• Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and Quartered which was done there he looking as cheerfully as any man could do in that condition. he was presently cut down and his head and his heart shown to the people, at which there was a great shouts of joy. it said that he said that he was sure to come shourtly at the right hand of christ to judge them that now have juged him.and that his wife doth expect his coming apart.from thence to my lords and took captain cuttance amd mr. sheply to the sun tavern and did give them some oysters.

5. what was most important for the people that lived in that time period. was finding a lord or king or etc. i think the people at that time was doing the same thing that's going on in today's standerd went on in a differnt way in that period of time. they main focuse was god and who they belived in .they wanted to do things that they thought was right back then.

the people was so into god and chooseing the king or queen . and if somebody do something wrong that they didnt like they get execucted. they wanted the best for the people.

my sonnet...

Oh is the answer to every question that comes out of my ex’s mouth (A)
Is there any better things in life rather than sex, drugs, and get money (B)
Why is everybody coming out the closet and kids going done a bad rout; (A)
And what is it with the president of USA why is this Cat so funny (B)
Now a day’s woman don’t like to put trust into men anymore, (C)
Is it because the brotha’s out there being a dog and not caring? (D)
The hood is full of pregnant woman that’s barley poor, (C)
Brotha’s in the hood has started a whole cool thing dealing with hustling, (D)
Hip-Hop is the Key to the Mind of Soul and thunder to your ears, (E)
Music is the nation that’s around me; tears come from R&B, (F)
Me and music connect like a turn table and pair of speakers, (E)
Hip-Hop will soon be no more Rhymes and Beats, (F)
When it comes to TLC and T.I Beef Isn’t what is (G)
Its Just T.V and music Biz.(G)

The Renaissance

• what really stuck out to me, was when the printing press was starting to become very big at that time. bibles was selling heavily and that the monks wouldn't have to translate the words to the people could just read it already.and another thing that i liked was that once Henry VIII, he had 3 kids and the sons had to be crowned first because of the laws at the time. after the sons death and Mary's death, Elizabeth became queen and never gotten married. Elizabeth had written some of Shakespeare's plays,that was very interesting to me.

1. the difference of them is that both of them are translated differently and that Spencer grammar is very difficult to read and Shakespeare are somewhat easy to read . and i prefer Shakespeare's poem, because he is good writer and he just knows exactly what to say.

2. The first poem Shakespeare's Stating:

• that he love a girl but he is not going to compare her to summer's day, because she is more lovely and more calm.
• the winds blow the flowers away in may and that summer is on it s way but its not going to stay here long.
• in his second line he is talking about when it is so hot outside, the sun beams on earth.
• and a man block the sun from beaming on earth with complection.
• beauty has changed nature.
• the conclusion is that beauty will never die in this poem, because humans in time will read his work and while there are reading it, it will live forever.

The Second poem Edmund spencer stated:

• that he is in love with a girl and that his love for her is fire and her love for him is ice. and the more he tells her how he feels she get colder and he get hotter, the more she dont like him.
• he tires to show her that he love her but she doesnt care that he loves her and he is getting very upset and frustrated,because he wants this girl so bad.and he is asking himself why is her heart cold and his hot.
• to him its not making any since to him for why his heart for her is getting hotter and hers getting very cold by the min.
• that his love for her is never going away and that he is going to keep loving her with this poem until she answers him.

3.
A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted (A)

Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion; (B)

A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted (A)

With shifting change, as is false women's fashion; (B)

An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,(C)

Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;(D)

A man in hue, all hues in his controlling,(C)

Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.(D)

And for a woman wert thou first created, (E)

Till Nature as she wrought thee fell a-doting,(F)

And by addition me of thee defeated,(E)

By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.(F)

But since she pricked thee out for women's pleasure,(G)

Mine be thy love, and thy love's use their treasure.(G)

Shakespeare's poem:

• he is talking about a boy that he is in love with and that nature had painted his face.and that the man heart is gentle and he is giving him a complement on how his heart doesn't change.and that he is not like other woman.
• and that his face that nature has painted shows that when he looks at somebody he golden or make things look pretty.and nature has falling in love with him and that he will defeat nature for that mans love.and the man loves Shakespeare. but the man was sent on earth for woman's treasure.

Edmund Spencer poem:

Comming to kisse her lyps (such grace I found)

Me seemd I smelt a gardin of sweet flowres

That dainty odours from them three around

For damzels fit to decke their lovers bowres

Her lips did smell lyke unto gillyflowers

Her ruddy cheeks lyke unto roses red;

Her snowy browes lyke budded bellamoures,

Her lovely eyes lyke pincks but newly spred,

Her goodly bosome lyke a strawberrry bed,

Her neck lyke to a bounch of cullambynes;

Her brest lyke lillyes ere theyr leaves be shed,

Her nipples lyke yong blossomd jessemynes.

Such fragrant flowres doe give most odorous smell,

But her sweet odour did them all excell.

• he is say ing that is in love with a girl and that when he kisses her lips, her lips smell like gilly flowers. and that the flower smell on her brings him joy and more love he has for her.
• he is also talking about how her face and beauty looks like flowers and smell like flowers and that her eyes is calling him over to her .
• he talking about how he loves to lay in her and smell strawberry and there love making bring him joy to his heart.
• he bascially saying that her smell period brings love to his heart.

The middle ages

1.The Crusades: wars had waged by the European Christian's against the Muslim's,with Jerusalem and the holy land as the prize.the Europeans failed to hold Jerusalem,they benefited enormously from contact with eastern mathematics,astronomy,architecture, and crafts made possible the rich.the crusades exposed Christian Europe to the middle East's sophisticated civilization.

• The Murder of Thomas a Becket: Thomas a Norman, had risen to great power as chancellor(prime minister) under his friend king Henry II. at that time, all Christian's Belonged to the Catholic Church.

• The Magna Carta: democratic tendencies in England was the signing of the Magna Carta by king john in 1215,at Runnymede.the vicious but pragmatic John was strongly backed by the pope, but the English barons forced him to sign the document.the signing was a defeat for central papal power .but the Magna Carta Later became the basis for English Constitutional law,in which such rights as trial by jury and legislative taxation were established .
  The Black Death: The Black death , or Bubonic Plague, Which struck England in 1348-1349,delivered another blow to feudalism.by that time king Henry VII's 1485 marriage reconciled the warring houses of York and lancaster, the middle ages were at its ending point .The Black death caused a labor Shortage,leading to the serf''s freedom and to the end of feudalism.king henry was a strong man that began the tudor line that would lead to Elizabeth1. and at that time the England's Renaissance was about to begin. .

2.The Knight: was a gentlemen, he had honour, freedom, and courtesy.he loved chivalry and honoured everywhere for worthiness.he was At Alexandria winning battle,often put in the place of honour.

• EX:He was a truly perfect, noble knight.
  But now, to tell you all of his array,
  His steeds were good, but he was not gaily dressed.

• 2.Squire: is an lover, and a well known bachelor. he was very active, and had a great deal of strength, twenty something years old.had locks well curled, as if they 'd laid in press.

• EX:He'd ridden sometime with the cavalry
  In Flanders, in Artois, and Picardy,
  And conducted well within that little space
  In hope to win thereby his lady's grace.

• 3. The Prioress: is an nun, she was called Madam Eglantine.she sung the service devine,through her nose.she spoke french fairly and fluently.

• EX:She wore a small coral trinket on her arm
  A string of beads and gauded all with green;
  And therefrom hung a brooch of golden sheen
  Whereon there was engraved a crowned "A,"
  And under, Amor vincit omnia.

• 4. The Monk: hunting was a monk favorite sport to do. a monk has very many excellent horses. when he rode men, his wife hear the jingling in the whistling in the wind.

• EX:He was an easy man in penance-giving
  He knew how to gain a fair living;
  For to a begging friar, money given
  Is sign that any man has been well shriven.

• 6. The Shipman:he was a sailor that was living far west. he was from a town called Dartmouth.he road a carthorse in a gown,Of thick woolen cloth that reached unto the knee.

• EX:But as for craft, to calculate his tides,
  His currents and the dangerous watersides,
  His harbours, and his moon, his pilotage,
  There was none such from Hull to far Carthage.

• 7. The Parson: he was very poor, and religious. but he was rich in holy thought and work.he was truly sought to preach.

• EX: Wide was his parish, houses far asunder,
  But never did he fail, for rain or thunder,
  In sickness, or in sin, or any state,
  To visit the farthest, regardless their financial state,
  Going by foot, and in his hand, a stave.

• 8.The Miller: he was a strong fellow that was very known.he was big of brawn and big of bone.
  EX:He was stoutly built, broad and heavy;
  He lifted each door from its hinges, that easy,
  Or break it through, by running, with his head.

• 9.The Manciple: was from the inner temple, to whom all buyers might think of as an example to learn the art of buying victuals.
  EX:Of masters had he more than three times ten,
  Who were in law expert and curious;
  Whereof there were a dozen in that house
  Fit to be stewards of both rent and land
  Of any lord in England who would stand
  To make him live by his own wealth and fee,
  In honour.

• 10.The Reeve: he was a slender choleric man. who shaved his beard as close as ever he can.his was cropped around his ears;his head, the top was cut alike a pulpiteer's.

• EX:Very rich and well he was provided all secretly,
  He knew well how to please his lord subtly,
  By giving him, or lending, of his own goods,
  And so got thanked - but yet got coats and hoods.

• 11.The Summoner: who had fiery-red,cherubic face,all pimpled it was. his eyes was narrow as hot he was,and lecherous.he also had black scabby brows and scanty beard.

• EX: There was no mercury, sulphur, or litharge,
  No borax, ceruse, tartar, could discharge,
  Nor ointment that could cleanse enough, or bite,
  To free him of his boils and pimples white,
  Nor of the knobs located on his cheeks.

• 12.The Physician: he was a doctor with medicine. u could call him for any thing back then. he would tell wheather or not your going to die or not.

• EX:Prepared he was, with his apothecaries,
  To send him drugs and all electuaries;
  By mutual aid much gold they'd always won-
  Their friendship was a thing not new begun.

• 13.The Wife of Bath: she had a skilled hand at making clothes.her head dresses of finest weave and ground.bold was her face, and fair and red of hue.

• EX:Upon a pacing horse easily she sat,
  Wearing a large wimple, and over all a hat
  As broad as is a buckler or a targe;
  An overskirt was tucked around her buttocks large,
  And her feet spurred sharply under that.
  

3. The tale is basicly talkin about how a knight takes a young woman virginty by forcing the young to have sex. for his punishment he leaves his wife(the Queen). he wanted the queen to take his life for what he has done to the young woman and to the queen. the queen had came up with an conclusion by telling the knight to take a journay for 12 months and a day.she also told him while he is out on his journay, he should think about one of the things that a woman desire. it was some kind of home work he had to accumplish for a year and a day.he didnt really get the answer to his question while he was on his journay . on the last day he saw a group of woman dancing around, at that moment he was thinking that maybe the women could help him find his answer to his question before he left going back home.but when he got them the vanished in from a blink of an eye.then there was an old woman leaning on the ground. he decided to talk to the woman about his problem he had. after he told her the problem, she made him give her his hand and to swear to the old woman, to what she require next and he did. then she told him the answer that wanted. He finaly went back to the Queen and gave the answer she was looking for. the old that was leaning on the ground told the queen that she told him the answer to his question. and the she made him promise her that he would do the next thing that she would tell him to do. the old woman ask him to do somthing for her and he ask what was it, and she ask him would he marry her, and he did. at the wedding he was very upset and the wedding night he was mad at the fact that he married an old woman. he changed the whole idea about the woman being old. at the end the old woman turned into an beautiful woman and they lived happily ever after.

4. the piece that i have chosed it reflected the middle ages writting for ex: loyalty, poetry, romance.

• Some of the most familiar figures from the Middle Ages were knights who were loyal protectors of the king.
• The adoration of the lady was meant as a means of self-imporvement for the knights, and they would spend their idle hours composing poetry and songs of praise. This gave birth to a new form of poetry: the romance
  

reading log

The book i have been reading, is called "I say a little Prayer,By E Lynn Harris.

Its about this homosexual guy named Chauncey Greer, he is an owner of Cute boy car card comapany.he is living a good life style. but until he gets feed up of being a heartbreaker and his suppused to be boyfriend, that has another life in another state, with his wife and kid. so Greer has a problem with that, Because he begain to start having feeling's for this guy. so he breaks up with him, because his partner doesnt put all his attention on him, but on his wife.so he got feed up with all of his down-Low stuff. so now he has started his life around. and started going to church.

i started liking this book when i read the first page. i mean it has alot of detailing things in the story. like how when he gets mad or when he is talking about people or other thing. he gets low down and dirty. what really makes this book stand out was that the fact the he is gay . and he knows the meaning life period.

The Anglo-Saxons

1. The story Beowulf was interesting to me. I mean, the story told me some tales about Anglo- Saxons. And think story was so cool and new to me when i first read,Because Beowulf had so much power and pride. and that caught my eyes when i read it . The that got to me,was that the Celts culture are still strongly with Ireland.

What made me really like the story, when the Angles and Saxons attacked Germany. I didn't know that until i read the story. I mean just think about then and now, that was a long time ago and Germany is well known. That's very interesting to me. Then another that caught my eye. Was that Anglo-Saxons England was very unorganized.

That what made me think, of course they wasn't going to be organized.Because they didn't have any desk nor computers like the new generations.that's like 400 years ago. And that was a long time ago.

There was a king in each area. I mean different kings. I think that if there wasn't any king's in the area's, the area's would be screwed up.There was other features in the Anglo-Saxons religion the Thonor. They keep up with the Warriors graves and Treasure. I thought that was kinda cool to know, and put some thinking into what really happened in the story.

2. first, the Anglo-Saxons had attacked Germany. And wasn't very organized.
second, Christianity was on the rise in england, the old Anglo-Saxon religion was still strong.
third,The most important Anglo-Saxon god was odin, the god of death, poetry, and magic. Then there was a Anglo-saxon name for odin it was woden and this is where we get the name for wednesday. There was a different King for each area, and none of the laws nor customs were similar.This all changed when King Alfred of Wessex, or Alfred the great organized the defeat of attacking Danish pirates we know as Vikings. In Beowolf early history prologue, was telling about all of the kings in the history of the Danes.You have heard of the Danish Kings in the old days and how they were great warriors.

3.Beowulf, remines me of spiderman, because he like to save people, just like beowulf likes to do the same the thing.and he is different from him, because spider man had webs to save and capture mean people.and beowulf had tools to do the same.but beowulf, loved his kingdom, just like spider-man, loves his people. Beowulf, saved his people by killing grendle.Beowulf had fulfilled his promise to the Danes and all the distress they had endured,all the trouble and sorrow,had reached an end.
The fact was plain when Beowulf laid that arm and shoulder down, there altogether, Grendel's claw,under the vaulted roof.

4.well, from when i read the ending of beowulf.it was sad and interesting to me. because he dies after he kills the monster. i really dont know what was the cause of his death. but im guessing that he died because he put so much pride into what he was doing for his kingdom, and he just collapsed and died. Beowulf spoke,despite his wounds.He knew wellhe'd seen the lastof this world's joys,that he'd numberedhis last day.
or he was so excited in his mind that he finally killed the monster and just died. well it was sad either way it goes, because he was so loyale into what he was doing. And thats why his name is still wellknown until this day.The young man lookedon his beloved lord,wretchedly killed,lying on the ground.His killer, the terrible cave-dragon, also lay bereft of life, overwhelmed in destruction.The dragon no longercoiled round the hoard,but was taken by iron,hacked in battleby the hammer's creation