Let's have an insight to our first lecture on "Romanticism"!
The lecture was initiated by research scholar "Vaidehi Hariyani (ma'am)".
At first she introduced a posture of autumn from her presentation, where leaves were pouring down from the tree, it was giving shadowy effect, in some manner aesthetic delight and as giving boonful effect.
She assigned us a meditative task to imagine ourselves in dense forest, where it is surrounded by orange and green trees/flowers and we must assume ourselves as sitting under a tree and try to narrate the insight of what we experienced by sitting there. One of my classmates said, he committed himself to writing, others said subsequently as singing song, while one of my classmates compared the posture with ma'am's dress's colour. But eventually we come to know these all tasks are associated with our unit's topic called "Romanticism".
Furthermore she discussed the concept of romanticism: At first she compared it with "neo-classical era's one of the characteristics". As it is the age of intellectuality and reason, it was replaced with imagination, emotions and feelings since the writers of this particular age, turned back to nature. It represents individualism rather than universalism which has connection with subjectivism. It is an age of poetry rather than prose(as is one of the characteristics of neo-classical era).
L.P. Smith in his words and idioms connoted : "false and fictitious beings and feelings, without real existence in fact and human nature".
She introduced "two generations of writers" belonging to romanticism. Which primarily focuses on William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. While another generation adds Walter Scott, Shelley, John Keats and Lord Byron. All have contributed adhering to the same concept, but their insights were differing in some manner, which we may come to know by referring their individual writing(poems). The former generation gain recognition and fame while the latter group wasn't so much recognized except Byron, due to their short life span. While the former group of poets were still surviving. John Keats and Shelley came to recognition in Victorian era, until then they weren't.
She also similarised aforementioned concept with "Indian writer" called 'Chetan Bhagat' who introduced in India 'Indianised English language'.
Second session: We discussed in detail about romantic era in today's session, as ma'am contrasted this particular age with its preceding and successive age to make its concept very explicit. She also gave a woman's example : though some women are free to live their life, they would cry on their sorrows, which is not at all existing. Perhaps can be said they have an adjustable tendency, according to the time they are befitting themselves into a specific design, designed by the people of society. While being a student/writer/scholar our prime task is to bring appraisal among people not getting succumb in it.
Then ma'am explained how the genre from neo-classical era called satire type in style, transformed into many poem genre forms called ballad, metrical rhyme, spenserian style etc. Which was since Shakespeare's times nowhere.
Furthermore she discussed how though being romanticists, all writers of this age were following their own tending nature rather than imitating anyone and proposed examples of Mary Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
As wordsworth was simplistic by his language of poetry and his poems don't have rhyming scheme but they were seeming rather written in prosaic style and he was a worshiper of nature(a teacher/artist).
While Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Mary Shelley were following supernatural things, the former's poems were melodious.
The poems of this particular age were individualistic(based on subjectivism) in nature, natural, simple in didacticism and comprises one of the figure of speeches called "personification" in it. Those were also based on 'folklore tradition', Thus can be said mimetic in nature though it was given an artistic effect.
For example: William Wordsworth : Daffodil poem-a lyrical poem.
"I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high over vales and hills".
Here Wordsworth himself seems to be personified : he himself is described as a cloud and as clouds while hovering are lonely he felt himself to be in lonesome situation.
To be continued..
L.P. Smith in his words and idioms connoted : "false and fictitious beings and feelings, without real existence in fact and human nature".
She introduced "two generations of writers" belonging to romanticism. Which primarily focuses on William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. While another generation adds Walter Scott, Shelley, John Keats and Lord Byron. All have contributed adhering to the same concept, but their insights were differing in some manner, which we may come to know by referring their individual writing(poems). The former generation gain recognition and fame while the latter group wasn't so much recognized except Byron, due to their short life span. While the former group of poets were still surviving. John Keats and Shelley came to recognition in Victorian era, until then they weren't.
She also similarised aforementioned concept with "Indian writer" called 'Chetan Bhagat' who introduced in India 'Indianised English language'.
Second session: We discussed in detail about romantic era in today's session, as ma'am contrasted this particular age with its preceding and successive age to make its concept very explicit. She also gave a woman's example : though some women are free to live their life, they would cry on their sorrows, which is not at all existing. Perhaps can be said they have an adjustable tendency, according to the time they are befitting themselves into a specific design, designed by the people of society. While being a student/writer/scholar our prime task is to bring appraisal among people not getting succumb in it.
Then ma'am explained how the genre from neo-classical era called satire type in style, transformed into many poem genre forms called ballad, metrical rhyme, spenserian style etc. Which was since Shakespeare's times nowhere.
Furthermore she discussed how though being romanticists, all writers of this age were following their own tending nature rather than imitating anyone and proposed examples of Mary Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
As wordsworth was simplistic by his language of poetry and his poems don't have rhyming scheme but they were seeming rather written in prosaic style and he was a worshiper of nature(a teacher/artist).
While Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Mary Shelley were following supernatural things, the former's poems were melodious.
The poems of this particular age were individualistic(based on subjectivism) in nature, natural, simple in didacticism and comprises one of the figure of speeches called "personification" in it. Those were also based on 'folklore tradition', Thus can be said mimetic in nature though it was given an artistic effect.
For example: William Wordsworth : Daffodil poem-a lyrical poem.
"I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high over vales and hills".
Here Wordsworth himself seems to be personified : he himself is described as a cloud and as clouds while hovering are lonely he felt himself to be in lonesome situation.
To be continued..
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