Romantic period

The Industrial Revolution- During this period of time was where there were not only changes in the industry, but economically as well. These changes took place mainly in N. America and in Europe. This particular movement made a difference in everyones life. It influenced atleast one persons life in some way or another. It changed the the way peole thought, worked, or even lived.


It also increased the country's population. it helped many people that had come to the country to farm and grow their own crops. With them growing their own crops, they didn't hve to worry about diseases and they didn't have to worry about spending useless money within the gov't
On Feb. 1, 1793, France declared war on Britian and this war lasted for 22 years. By the time this war ended, Britian had control over S. Africa and the W. Indies.

Like for normal people was hard. I mean they went through so much with the war and it causes prices to rise and alot of people lost their family, jobs and so on and so fourth.
I mean look at peole today. To be honest i don't think that normal people during this time would have lasted. Today people are so into technology, that they don't understand the meaning of hard work. Like now with the economy like it is, it's like people are going crazy and they don't now what to do. Like for instants, gas...when people heard that we were running out of gas they quickly started going to the gas stations and started trying to fill up their gas tanks. Instead of American trying to peserve and save it, and saying that they were just going to limit where they are going to go, they decided to do the complete opposite.

During the Romantic period they where trying to express economic changes, political changes and expand peoples imaginations.
With political and economic changes, they were trying to express the different changes that their country was facing. With the french revolution and the parlimentary reform it was a big change during the romatic period. It help to lay foundations for Great britian.
Trying to expand imaginations, they wrote different stories about also known as lyrical ballads. Often times they were use to express how the author feels and its trying to get you to see out of the eyes of how they see things. it also talked about devesating break ups as well.

The poem that i wrote about is William Blake's poem, Garden of Love, And the gates of this Chapel were shut, "And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door;So I turned to the Garden of Love That so many sweet flowers bore." and basically what i think he was talking about was a peace place like heaven where there angels and peace. I think that it is a good piece of poetry, because it lets you know what he was doing and it has a subject. It says where love lay sleeping and everything is calm.
He talks about how he went in the forest and talked to the animals and the animals didnt have to worry about being killed, and their also was a church. He talked about how there was a garden and the garden was filled with love. But at the end it also seems as if he might have been talking about a gravesite because he also talked about hoe there were priest and gravesites.

the next peom that i read was a poem by william wordsworth perfect woman. "And steps of virgin liberty;"
A countenance in which did meet yes i think that it is a good poem, it talks about how he found the perfect woman. he talks about how she is still a virgin and basically she just glides on air. How there is no one else like her and she is one of a kind. i do think that it is a good romantic piece because it lets you know how he feels about someone.

The poem by george gordon When we two parted." WHEN we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
Colder thy kiss;
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this." This was i think about a divorce, or either a bad break up. I think it to is also a good poem. it talks about how dramatic the break up was and how they didnt want to part but they had to, but you could tell they was deeply in love. It also talked about waking up in the morning alone and how hard it was.

the poem by Percy Bysshe Shelly Night was really confusing. "Death will come when thou art dead,
Soon, too soon--
Sleep will come when thou art fled.
Of neither would I ask the boon
I ask of thee, belovèd Night--
Swift be thine approaching flight,
Come soon, soon!" it seemed like it talked about death. it was an ok piece of poetry but it not romantic. I didnt unerstand anything that he was talking about.

The last poem by john keats To Sleep was ok. "Around my bed its lulling charities;
Then save me, or the passèd day will shine
Upon my pillow, breeding many woes;
Save me from curious conscience, that still lords
Its strength for darkness, burrowing like a mole" it really talked about death and how peaceful death should be. Death shouldn't be painful it should be something where you just close your eyes and thats it. no its not a good piece of poetry because its not romantic.


The Victorian Period
During the Victorian period Neopleon deafeated waterloo in 1815. During this time britain also had nothing to do with this. They didnt get involved until WWI in 1914. During this time the economy started to grow tramindisly. The Industrial revolution went through alots of ups and downs, dealing with depressions that took place for quite some time. New things were constantly coming about between new towns being created new health programs goods and jobs.

Queen Victoria came uponthe throne in 1842. She came upon the throne in the year that the country was going through a great depression. that had more than half a million people out of work, and majority of the families were faced with poverty. they found alot of dead children when they were working in these factories for 12 hours a day. Most of these shifts contained children that didnt even get to see daylight on Sundays most weekends.

Life for everyday people was hard. They had to work without pay and if they were getting paid it wasnt for very much. I think that most peole had to struggle to make ends meet and provide or their family the best way they could. I don't think the the children got many times to act as a child. I think they had to grow up rather quickly.

During the romantic period and the victorian period the biggest change to me was the industrial boom. You had some periods during the romantic period were things were okay, and during the victorian period it wwas like when Queen E went upon the throne she started to make people suffer. She felt that she was all for herself and no one else. She made these innocent children work in sweat shops and they had to time to be a child. They had to grown up to fast. it was like she was bitter and she wanted everyone to suffer because of it. One of the tings that caused this change is when she became Queen.

The poets in this time they tried to express religion, and policitcal causes and the abolition of slavery. They tried to help people to understand that slavery was wrong. They also help to try to let everyone know that religion was okay. She shpuldnt and you dont have to be afraid of expressing and letting people know how you feel. They wanted people to know what was going on in the country.

Read a poem from each of the following poets, and then write a short review of each poem that: 1) Summarizes its content; 2) Analyzes how it is a good example of Romantic poetry; and 3) Uses direct evidence from the poem to support the claims you make in #3 and 4. Each of these reviews should be two paragraphs. Check to be sure each response includes the information for which I am asking. This will save you time. You can find many examples on the Internet by searching these poets' names. It would be helpful to create links to the poems you are describing. You can do with the link button above. I can show you how.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Robert Browning Matthew Arnold Thomas Hardy

What alfred Nothing will Die. "When will the stream be aweary of flowing
Under my eye?When will the wind be aweary of blowing
Over the sky?When will the clouds be aweary of fleeting?When will the heart be aweary of beating?
And nature die?Never, O, never, nothing will die;
The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die." was saying in his poems was that nothing in nature will die. We will never die because we are a part of nautre. it is a good example of poetry because it helps to show his feelings for nature and how he feels. He talks about how the heart will continue to beat, and the rivers and things will never stop flowing.
basically what robert browning was saying was that nothing can compare to how him and whoever his other half is, how they feel about eachother. nothing is better than the feeling of how to people feel about eachother. it is a great way to show romanticism in this poem because its letting you know how they feel about one another. He talks about how the two hearts are beating and how nothing can keep them from eachother.


matthew arnold A Wish "ask not that my bed of deathFrom bands of greedy heirs be free;For these besiege the latest breathOf fortune's favoured sons, not me.I ask not each kind soul to keepTearless, when of my death he hears;Let those who will, if any, weep!There are worse plagues on earth than tears". Was basically talking about how when he dies he thinks no one will care. He knows no one will cry, because no one had ever cared about him..
It's a great piece of poetry becuse it shows how he felt and his emotions toward people.
The whole poem talks about how he will take his last breath and no one will weep.


Thomas's I look into my Glass "LOOK into my glass,
And view my wasting skin,
And say, “Would God it came to pass
My heart had shrunk as thin!”
was talking about how he looked in the mirror, and noticed that he was getting old. it expresses how he feel because he doesnt want to get old and he never thought that he would. He woke up one day and asked god, why, he sees all this wrinkled skin and wants to know why he is getting old. no, i dont think it's a good piece of poetry, even though he expressed how he felt it doesnt really tell how it has someting to do with him being romantic.