William Wordsworth romantic who wrote about the French Revolution sees imaginatively still knows pain of the world speaker operates in physical world world of facts and sensibility child can get past death child has imminence of imagination I Wander Lonely as a Cloud dancing flowers simple rhymes 4 stanzas written in iambic pentameter by comparing himself to cloud speaker expresses closeness with nature remembering nature even when it is not present The Solitary Reaper another meditation on a memory speaks of a women exotic other she speaks a language he doesn t understand shes singing as if her song could have no end line 26 3rd stanza shows he wants the possibilities long after it was heard no more Old Man Traveling speaks of a man who does not move with pain but moves with thought and is by nature led he is on a journey to see his dying son The Prelude About loss of self and los of hope in revolution based on paradise lost Michel Beaupuy soldier romantic hero gives Wordsworth hope and he finally understand the revolution It is a Beauteous Evening line 9 change in tone of poem this is Wordsworth meeting his daughter for the first time she is not moved by the beauty of the ocean like she is adult view vs childs view both have know experience encounter with adult and child Tintern Abbey talking about his sister she is wild and childish his sister reserves innocence type of encounter with adult and child language used to show simplicity of sisters mind title shows that the subject is a memory Nutting line 42 change in tone experience has enterf him child feeling guilt brings up sister child at end to teach lesson of respecting nature We are Seven based on actual encounter from view of another man or Wordsworth paralleled innocence experience girl operates in world of memory and spirituality William Blake was a radical never turns away form politics uses imagination to express his stand for Blake innocence is just as problematic as experience The Chimney Sweeper Innocence has dream that makes him happy Tom Dacre strong rhythm nursery rhyme interruption of rhyme symbolic of realization and break free speaker is in state of innocence innocent enough not to think too much physical world of sorrow mental world of happiness false or contructed happiness last line indicates experience as if moral end of fable The Chimney Sweeper Experience tones of resentment from knowledge or understanding of situation child called little black thing implies adults thrive on chimney sweepers misery child does labor like an adult and also speaks like an adult encounter with adult and child shows transformation or growth from adulthood to childhood London charter d corporatizing a public space weakness and woe of the faces we are eating away at nature irony political grids control the natural world and violate the greater power infants cry shows Blake s skeptical he is projecting fear he isn t acknowledging baby s innocence mind forg d manacles trapped in the mind The Lamb childs world repetition limited vocab world of innocence experience is seen in knowledge of lamb as Christ simplistic qualities The Tyger dark dread language complicated more complex then in the lamb symbol of revolutionary violence irony in picture of tyger Infant Joy story of 2 day old nameless baby takes on joy as name because its naturally joyful shift in speaker is unclear already in perspective of experience perspective of innocence from experience Infant Sorrow paralleled infant joy past tense looking back on infantry and birth negative reflection on a memory infancy is viewed as a prison every line comes from experience there is no innocence in this poem S T Coleridge John Keats Kubla Khan power of drama dreaming memory meditation antagonist Porlock interups dream lines 40 54 the end talks of creating new world something transgressive transformative powers makes room for new openness to mystery enigma over fact drank the milk of paradise line 54 Frost at Midnight conversation poem sits next to sons cradle and reflects on falling snow outside love of nature reflects on childhood and innocence motifs sleep dreams imagination shift in scene of 2nd stanza back to memory of his boyhood Letters male imagination female object escaping escapism freedom prophesy creates new world of perfection in alternate reality of the mind NEGATIVE CAPABILITY Ode on a Grecian Urn value of being fixed verses letting imagination be free does Keats want to be on urn Or to be free unravish d bride urn is unchanging and untouched physical integrity testament to our mortality what s in poem questions reveal quietness of the urn unheard melody prjects imagination and freedom art is capable of truth through beauty EKPHRASIS poetry about art visuals giving a voice to art Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind radical revolutionary force emphasis on verbal world over visual world preferred recollections over immediate experience INWARD EYE power of imagination wild spirit which art moving everywhere Destroyer and Preserver hear O hear lines 13 and 14 poem broken into 5 parts If winder comes can Spring be far behind last line in poem Jane Austen not a Victorian writer did not write as a member of the aristocracy wrote about mobility Persuasion experimental novel book about saying goodbye looking back and looking forward emphasis on memory self conscious leaving one place behind moving into world of renters socially of mobile people diving into great unknown of future gap between 1806 1814 Anne is 27 already grown coming into maturity learning to fit into social order unconventional love story end comes at beginning subtle account of the past what might not eight years do is central theme of novel time moves differently for Anne than it does for Captain Wentworth persuasion opens with an oode to what was it deviates from the past to the present asks can you indulge in memories without living in the past FREE INDIRECT DISCORSE constantly switching narrator choreography breaking down barriers Lord Byron late romantic writer raised in world or war distant from revolution cynical doesn t take things seriously led a scandalous life Don Juan Dedication Canto I published 3 years after Byron was exiled mocks epic poems I want a hero uncommon want begins with lack of hero arbitrary choice of hero Don Juan because there is no true hero Don Juan is passive innocent in a way that he is weak and easily seduced Stanzas 200 and 201 make fun of epics and sets self apart by