Title: Neoclassicism Vs Romanticism
Subject: Early Romantic Poetry, Nature Poetry: Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” Anne Finch’s “A Nocturnal Reverie”
Date: 16,05,24
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💡 Key Points:
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- Questions that connect points
- Important points
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✏️ Notes:
Neoclassicism
- Objective and impersonal
- Reality as a craft
- Reason
- Return to classical forms of satire
- Nature- Human nature
- Return to the past as a site of order
- Restraint and order
- Culture is made and nature is already exists
- Man as a part of the human species (the emphasis on the general
- Man can rule over nature
- Man as a rational being
- Probable events
- The civil war in England
- City is an industrial town
- The outer world as the center of poetry
Romanticism
- Meditation style poem, about death.
- Graveyard poets: Thomas Gray, Thomas Parnell, Robert Blair, Edward Young
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard became so popular that he offered a title but he did not accept cause he was a critic of himself.
- External nature
- Night time in a countryside
- auditory images such as beetle’s fly and moving herd’s sound
- Which sensory images try to make use of? First isi sight, auditory,
- Subjective observation of the nature that it creates an image in the writer, poet add emotion etc
- Narrow cell a metaphor for grave
- He suggest that our social status is not justified for mocking
- Can the fleeting breath be called back to its mansion by the storied urn or animated bust?
- Death presented as human being : personificaion
- All the ideas comes as a question. Rhetorical questions
- Primitiveness of the external nature
- Far from the madding crowd Thomas Hardy took it from this poem
- Despite their modesty, these memorials “implore the passing tribute of a sigh”, asking for a moment of remembrance or respect from those who pass by. This reflects the theme of mortality and remembrance that is central to Graveyard poetry.
- Melancholic moment
- Fair Science”, suggesting he was a man of learning.
- He is described as being marked by Melancholy, perhaps indicating a life touched by sadness or contemplation.
- the somber and solitary atmosphere
- How the poet is paradoxical to the Romanticism idea? Does he change anything?
- Presents of others disturbs the owl
- Neoclassical : conservative
- Romanticism : proggressive kind of a poetry
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Summary:
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