Romantic Period

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Gothic
This period was mainly just imagination. There was the Lure of Gothic. Horace Walpole buit a mansion as we see today called the "Little Gothick Castle". This was idelized back then as we in the U.S. idelize the White House. In 1764 Walpole built another Gothic Ruin and filled it with monsters. His novel "The Castle of Otranto" used ghosts and living statues in a forest to illistrate a royal family's fall. He was one of the best known Gothic writters of this time.

Tyranny of Laissez Faire
So....I guess this is when the Government started to become corrupt. Nice little villages had these townspeople to hand make all of there goods. Hand made wheels, baskets, pottery, etc. Life was all fine and dandy as you would say. Now the government pops up and makes all of these factories to make all the goods. Hince the Industrial Revolution. This put all of the working people out of jobs. Eventually they would go to the big rich guys to find a job that put them out of business. They didnt get paid good at all because all of their work was not valuble to them. They had all of the big equipment to do all of the major work.


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To me they seemed to have a hard life back then. The poet's had alot to write about, but despite it all, it just seemed tough. With the industrial revolution comming, it brought alot of markets in the city down. But everybody seemed busy bak then.

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The Tyger By: William Blake
This seemed to point out the danger and the discription of a tiger. As well as the atrinilen of the person that saw the tiger.
And what shoulder, & what art. Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet?

Composed upon Westminster Bridge By: William Wordsworth
A village that is dull and ordanary. But the ordanary is the highlight of the words used in the poem. I think he's pointing out that plain dull thigs are still beautiful, and it's so true when you think about this.

And Thou Art Dead, As Young and Fair By: George Gordon
This guy was in love with this girl. No matter any aspect of life, he still loved her til the end. And when she died, he still cared. Pretty much said love will never fade, no matter the circumstances.

Bloodless Revolution

1. The bloodless revolutions was pretty much an over through in a way...to me. England was pretty much thought as a dictatorship like Cuba is today. The rulers they had were not good to the people. They even had one of thier rulers beheaded (Wow!). After going through many rulers, the bottem line was what they called the Pope. As of today, England is still powered by a Pope.

I thought it was pretty interesting about the background they had. Even the acts they did were not shocking then, but now they would be herendous. I mean think about it, killing president Bush would be so shocking today. Then you've got all of these charges brought up. But back then they didnt have charges. The interesting thing to me is, after all of the rulers they went through and settled on a Pope in 1688, and is still present to this day.....just not the same one of course.


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Satire- Pretty much the use of sarcasm like imitating someone using sarcasm.
To me its kinda like making fun of or mocking a person.
Examples- Saturday Night Live. They make fun of celebs by dressing up and mocking them.


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The was an weird story. It talked about this English guy in his cure for Ireland's problems. His plan for hunger and high population was to kill the children for population, and eat them for hunger. Personally I wasnt impressed. It was sick and horrific to think someone would come up with this nonsence. They had crazy laws back then so I think he should have been beheaded or something of that nature.


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This was a very I guess cool piece of literature I read. It was the diary of Samuel Pepys. He wrote about his life in London for nine years, and recording everything in good detail. For the most part, he seemed to be happily married to a 20 year old, while he was 27. They had their arguments like many couples do of course. On Sep. 2, 1664 the great town of London cought fire and burned to the ground. The city was devistated. Everybody scattered to grab their things but the poor people stayed in their homes as long as possible.



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I liked all of the stories I read in this section. They were all true so it told alot about how times were way...back in the day. But the modest proposal was a pain to comprehend at times. For the most part I learned alot about the English past and got to compair the stories I read to what is going on today. As well as the differences.

Sonnet 89 By: Supra King

A day in school is likea piece of fruit,
sometime it turns out very sweet.
Too much work makes you wanna toot,
and my carful plans fall at my feet.
A day at work is like a cool drink,
a job well done satisfies my thurst.
One more beer and Im ready to think,
another turbo to install though its not my first.
A day driving is the best of all,
I hit the gas and watch the trees fly past.
I hit a drift without a fall,
with the blue lights behind me I knew I was too fast.
But no day has a sadder curse up on it,
than sitting here writting this stupid sonnet.

Renaissance Poems

1. In the Shakespeare poems, to me the rhyme scheme is less complicated and so is much easer to comprehend. The main difference has to do with the linking of the rhyme sounds between the quatrains of the Spenserian sonnets (A,B,A,B-B,C,B,C-C,D,C,D). In the the Shakespeare sonnets, the quatrains do not share any rhymes. There for, in the Shakespeare sonnet there is one more rhyme sound used (7 Sounds), where as in the Spenser sonnet the total rhyme sounds is only 5.


2. In the first quatrain, the question of compairing the lady to a summer's day has to do with "climate" (temperature, wind). The second quatrain focuses the question on whether the sun is out or behind a cloud. In the both of these quatrains the lady's beauty is preferred to the summer's day. But in the third quatrain the poet claims that the lady does not change as does every summer's day. In the final quatrain this claim is explained by the idea that the poem itself will ensure the lady's immortality.


3. Sonnet 29
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, (A)

I all alone beweep my outcast state (B)

And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries (A)

And look upon myself and curse my fate, (B)
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Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, (C)

Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, (D)

Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, (C)

With what I most enjoy contented least; (D)
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Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, (E)

Haply I think on thee, and then my state, (F)

Like to the lark at break of day arising (E)

From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; (F)
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For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings (G)

That then I scorn to change my state with kings. (G)

The first quatrain, it discribes the poet's mood of discontent and lack of success or aproval with other people. The second quratrain leads out from this to express his envy of those who are more fortuante or better off than he is. Then the third quatrain the poet expresses how the thought of his friend changes his mood to one of happiness and gratitude. The final quatrain claims that the poet's love or friendship makes his life on a par with any king himself.

Sonnet 75
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, (A)

But came the waves and washed it away: (B)

Again I wrote it with a second hand, (A)

But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.(B)
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Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay (B)

A mortal thing so to immortalize, (C)

For I myself shall like to this decay, (B)

And eek my name be wiped out likewise. (C)
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Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise (C)

To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: (D)

My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, (C)

And in the heavens write your glorious name. (D)
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Where whenas Death shall all the world subdue, (E)

Out love shall live, and later life renew. (E)


In the first quatrain, he repeatedly write his lady's name in the sand on the sea shore. Each time the tide comes and washes her name away.
In the second quatrain the lady reminds him that it is as pointless to praise her in verse as it is to hope that her name on the sand will resist the tide. In the third quatrain the poet denies her claim and argues that her beauty will live on forever in his poetry as it diserves to do. The final quatrain emphasizes that though death conquers everything else their love will live on and inspire the future.

Renaissance Summery

One of the things that happined back then, was a plague that killed 1/3 of Europe's population. A few years later the printing press was invented. This made it alot easer for books to be made. It made the prices go down on books and the Monks didnt have to copy books any more. King Henry VIII had one wife but wanted a divorse. The Pope didnt allow it though. He started his own church and had 6 wives. All but one dies or were killed. The one that lived, lived longer than King Henry.