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.