romantic/vic

During the romantic period the French Revolution happened. The rising prices in bread were leaving a lot of people in France hungry. The king doesn’t do anything to fix this and his wife spends more and more of the nation’s wealth away on jewelry and other non important things. So they sieged a fort and beheaded the king and queen. They then abolished feudalism.
In England around the romantic period the industrial revolution happened. Which started with the invention of powered machinery. Also with a lot commoners losing work in as farmers because nobles bought up lots of land for themselves many people were moving in to the cities. With the new machines they were able to make clothing cheaper. This changed a lot of the view people had.
It seemed that like during this time the people faced so many changes from the old life. Unlike with the renaissance which was the bring back of the arts. These changes were in the change of living and government. It was more about how they lived instead of what they thought.
One of the main things the romantics thought was that nature was prefect. So nature should be the example that people follow. So that is what a lot of them wrote about and used nature to compare people to.
Also they liked to write a lot about happier things instead of depressing tragedies like they did before. That it was to express peoples thoughts.
Little lamb, who made thee?Dost thou know who made thee?Gave thee life, and bid thee feedBy the stream and o'er the mead;Gave thee clothing of delight,Softest clothing, woolly, bright;Gave thee such a tender voice,Making all the vales rejoice?Little lamb, who made thee?Dost thou know who made thee?
Hes asking the lamb if he knows how he was made and why it grows its fur. It should be happy because it gets it gifts for free from nature.
It talks about how nature takes care of stuff on its own for all that people need. That is why this is a good example of romanticism. It shows that nature is its own and takes care of its own.
Composed upon Westminster Bridge
He looks out and sees the city and finds it beautiful. In the morning light it is fine and he can see everything. He then compares it to things in nature like valleys, rocks and hills and this makes him clam in the morning.
It just says how beautiful it looks. How if you compare it to nature it is even better. That is what I seemed like made it mostly a romantic poem I think.
So we’ll go no more a-roving
As with everything he grows out of his partying. As he says like a sword outwears its sheath that basically everything grows out of what it does. That it finally happened to him.
As for romanticism it fits it as it talks about the natural order of things. Like how everything grows out of something that it was natural. Also how he compares night to day light to moon so like his life also is part of the style.
England in 1819
The poem is what is wrong with what is going on in England in that time. Like in line 7 it talks about how innocent people were killed. How the nobility don’t care because they don’t know and can’t see what is really going on in the country how bad it is.
I don’t see a lot of things that stick out as romanticism at least not as much as the other poems. The main thing I see is how it talks about things could be better if you treat things in a better order I think.

When I Have Fears
What he’s saying is he’s afraid he might die before he finishes his work. That he won’t be able to write all he wants to write "that I may cease to be before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain." Also that he will be able to look at his love because he will be dead.
Like the poem before the romanticism doesn’t jump out at me. Besides that he makes a lot of comparisons to nature like "when I behold, upon the night’s starred face" or huge cloudy symbols of a high romance."
Victorian
One the big things that was happening was that England had expended its empire so that over 200 million people outside side of Great Britain were under its control. This gave England a lot more resources that it didn’t have already. Also opened up people minds more to the people they had under their control.
Another thing was the rise of the middle class. The industrial revolution effects were still being felt and through it some people were able to rise to middle class. So the standard of living was thought to have been increased through these years.
It would have been very dirty I think for a normal person to live back then seeing how the commoners were living like 20 to a room at times. Working 12 hour shifts just to get by in life. If you were part of the new middle class or of nobility I think it would have been pretty nice. If you weren’t one of these kind of people I think it wouldn’t be that nice of a time.
The biggest difference I think is that people were held to a higher standard I think. Like it was more uptight, especially with the women. The clothing everyone had to wear was much more formal it seemed. How people had to act was very different and more polite.
One of the main things with Victorian literature was to ask question and raise doubts in people. Not about how beautiful the world is or how things were perfect. More so about things that were right or wrong. If something was true or if your life isn’t as good as your thought it was.
Another was that materialist ideas over looked the spirit or soul. They weren’t what made life just and beautiful. They were just hold people back and they shouldn’t be worried about stuff like that.
Crossing the bar page 782
This one was the one I could understand the best. So I think that would make it the best I could find. I like what he’s saying about it. Like how he wants no one to mourn when he finally dies. "And may there be no sadness of farewell," line 11. He doesn’t fear the death that he know is coming it sees to me.
He wasn’t really questioning anything that I could see. He though was talking about a peace of things even if he does die. He is just going to greet it as something natural. "I hope to see my Pilot face to face when I have crossed the bar"
Meeting at night page 805
He walks in the night at first just describing the terran. The thing he is going for the farm, which he gets to. He taps on the door which someone answers and they are trying to be secret about it.
The secretness of this I think deals a lot with the time period because women were surpose to be pure and if they have sex before they were married were the fallen and looked down a pon by others. "A voice less loud, though its joys and fears," shows that she was trying to be secret about it.
requiescat page 815
Its about a lady dying but not being sad that she is dying. She is actually happy and peaceful as shes does "she bathed it in the smiles of glee"

I think that the death is coming and you should accept it is the main victoroian in this poem. like how each it is a part of people and should be accepted as best as it can be.
drummer hodge 840
what I think this poem is about is how this guy drummer hodge was killed during the Boer. It explains how young he was "Young Hodge the drummer never knew-- fresh form his Wessex home".
How real it is what I think that ties it to Victorian. How he rights about something so real about a young boy dying in a war. Also not really making it into a tradgey I think is a big thing why its Victorian.

resteration

After James I died his son Charles I took the throne but after 24 years he was beheaded. Charles II fled and hid in France afterwards. Fore eleven years the country was ruled by parliament then Charles II returned. After he died his brother James II took over he then had a catholic son so the people were worried to have another catholic king so they got William of Orange to try and take over England because he was married to James II protestant daughter Mary. So when William went to try and take the crown from James II, James fled to France. And William and Mary were accepted into England as King and Queen with out a fight.

Satire is like making fun of how people are in a sarcastic way so that people could think what you were saying you meant. A lot of popular comedy shows today us satire as their whole idea. Family Guy and The Simpson’s are the two biggest examples that come to my mind. As they make fun of all common people.

It throws you off at the beginning because he talks so serious as well as throws in a lot of facts as if it was real scientific study. When he finally says his idea of eating children it really does sound like he’s being serious but later you can tell he’s using satire. He is making fun of how the upright English people think of “lower” people.

In the diary of Samuel Pepys it is him just writing about cretin days of his life. Just through his eyes. It shows what it is like through a normal person eyes back then. Not just a fictionally story from someone else’s view. Like during a public execution he talked about how it was in the crowd like the great shouts of joy he said.

He then was part of the famous Great Fire of London. He apparently woke up at first and thought little of it and went back to sleep but then woke up again to find it spreading. So he then leaves and sees all the people leaving the fire and how it engulfed peoples homes.

During this time what was really important was that people liked to trust facts, instead of what people just think. That is very important because it changed a lot of the writing that people came up with. Also people questioned a lot more of what has been said for a long time.

mentor log 2

11/26/07

5:30pm
After I got everything set up with trixbox the Ethernet card wasn’t working properly so I wasn’t getting a IP for the server so I wasn’t able to connect to the web site. So I called up Richard to ask him how to fix it. We went though a good amount of commands to try and get it to work but it still wasn’t. we event tried reinstalling it but it still didn’t work. So he scheduled the next appointment for me to bring in my pc on Thursday.
6:10pm

11/30/07 12:00pm
He was sick Thursday so he told me to come back Friday. I came in to his office with my PC. We got it my PC running in his office and I loaded up the server program. As we worked on the VM server we got it working for the most part but since I run off of a modem directly at home instead of a router so it has a hard time coming up with another IP for the separate machine so it doesn’t come up. So at my house unless I get a router I can’t have the VM server up and running on the web because it can’t form its own IP. So after numerous small tries we were unable to change the settings to change.
2:10 pm