The Romantic Period (1789-1850)
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Bold new ideas inspired romanticism which challenged and earlier focus on reason and order, love was only only one meaning of this very complex term. Romanticism was inspired by the beauty and power of nature and the value of feeling and emotion. Three big ideas during this time were the stirrings of Romanticism and Nature and the
Imagination and the quest for Truth and Beauty. During Romanticism imagination not science held the secrets of this universe. Stirrings of Romanticism were a new cultural outlook that placed an emphasis on feelings and imagination. Romantics sought the untamed nature, because they believed nature inspired all. |
The Victorian Period (1850-1900)
During the sixty-four year reign of queen Victoria Britain experienced a change the Victorian age brought revolutionary shifts and social thought and brought in the industrial revolution. Three big ideas that helped shape the literature of the Victorian age were British optimism and the belief in progress, the emergence of realism, and the disillusionment and Dark Visions of naturalism. During the 19th century Britain reached the height of it political and economical power. The British believed they had a God given duty to civilize the world.During the Victorian age Britain's power, wealth and self-confidence encouraged optimism and the belief in progress. Moral values and a desire to do good was the Victorian out look. |
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A Child's Evening Prayer
Ere on my bed my limbs I lay God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear In strength and health for many a year; And, O! preserve my father too, And may I pay him reverence due; And may I my best thoughts employ To be my parents' hope and joy; And O! preserve my brothers both From evil doings and from sloth, And may we always love each other, Our friends, our father, and our mother: And still, O Lord, to me impart An innocent and grateful heart, That after my last sleep I may Awake to thy eternal day! Amen. |
An Analysis of Samuel Taylor Coleridge ¨A Child's Evening Prayer¨
Template by E. Everett Poems in English literature, particularly those from the Romantic Age, contain a variety of heavily-used rhetorical devices in order to convey the meaning intended by the author. In Coleridge’s ¨A Child's Evening Prayer,” for instance, the reader finds a number of devices that aid in conveying the tone and, ultimately, the theme of this poem. Concepts such as faith,belief, religion, and family pervade the poem in the poet’s attempt to convey the theme that praying for the family is always effective. To begin to understand a poem, one must deal with the basics. These involve knowing general information about the speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, and subject. The speaker of “A Child’s Evening Prayer” reveals himself (or herself) to be a young child praying to God . The occasion is a child in bed, and the time is at night. The speaker’s audience is God and his/her purpose involves asking God for his family. The child in bed acts as the subject of the poem. To paraphrase the events of the poem, one might say that this child is praying for his parents health, that he may please them and that his brothers may be kept from evil doings. In terms of tone, the poem begins with a humble or innocent mood or atmosphere but ends up hopeful and peaceful. Some diction that suggests this involves the speaker first using the words ¨God grant me,” and ¨Oh God preserve me¨ but then later in the poem by employing words like ¨I may¨ and ¨may we always¨ the speaker reveals a positive tone by the end. This suggests that the boy trust and confides in God. The speaker’s attitude also becomes apparent in the poem. The speaker’s tone first reveals a humble attitude with the use of the words ¨God grant me¨ “ but his/her attitude becomes of asking with the use of diction like ¨And may I ¨ The three most significant rhetorical devices that the poet uses to convey the theme in the poem involve the use of metaphor, allusion, and apostrophe. The poet uses metaphor to help the reader get a sense of what it is all about with words and phrases like ¨strength and health¨ and ¨hope and joy¨ S/he also uses allusion as a way of showing what God can do , specifically with phrases like ¨to me impart¨. Finally, the poet uses apostrophe to give deeper meaning to the poem by portraying the child's hope and trust in God. Thus, the devices used by the author give the reader the idea that God always hears us even the smallest amongst us. Essentially, this poem is about a child who deeply loves his family and prays for their safety and health. To create this meaning, the author uses numerous devices of rhetoric and the effects of tone to create an atmosphere that is innocent and humble among the eyes of God. As a result, we can see how the use of rhetorical devices and tone give meaning to poetry and other forms of literature. |
III. FINAL PROJECT:
The Original Poem My Precious Little One I come to you today with a heart so heavy and ready, as they stand and preach in their black suit and red tie. Let go, let be, for it has passed. Let go, let be. But how? Tell me how, how can such divine, a savior take away what he has given. A million words cannot bring you back. I thought of you, as I woke up today, as I do everyday. My precious little one, quiet as a whisper, you silently slipped away. I held you, I felt you, you were mine. So tiny, so innocent, so precious. I never knew I could love so much. Two months was too little. To think that providence to would take a child from his mother while she prays. But now all this heart is bitterness But this is what feels to have the sacred torn from life, and you survive. |
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