Isn't It Romantic?
This Romantic Era Poet wrote "Ozymandias," and "Ode to the West Wind" before dying at sea. His friends tried to to stage a funeral pyre, only to cause his corpse to explode.
Percy Shelley
“Generations have trod, have trod;/ And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Frankenstein is an example of this genre, an offshoot of Romanticism.
Gothic Literature
This is the inspiration for the era's name of The Victorian Age.
This literary device describes an extreme exaggeration that serves to illustrate an author's point.
Hyperbole
This historical event significantly influenced British Romanticism, including its focus on freedom, emotion, and equality.
The French Revolution.
“And all her/ In one long yellow string I wound/ Three times her little throat around.”
Robert Browning
Mary Shelley wrote multiple layers of narrative from multiple perspectives in Frankenstein, creating a complex and layered story of this type.
A Frame Tale
Gerard Manly Hopkins used the word "charged" to describe a sense of the divine's presence in everything as a form of this.
Electric Current, or Electricity.
This poetic meter is composed of five sets of feet, which contain two beats per foot, that equals out to ten beats per line of poetry or verse.
Iambic Pentameter
This poet is considered one of the pre-Romantic poets who gave inspiration to the Romantic Era with his focus on everyday subjects and reverence for the natural world.
Robert Burns.
In his famous dramatic monologue, this poet urged readers, "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The captain of the ship that Victor Frankenstien dies upon, before the Creature comes to see him one last time.
Robert Walton
This was the dominant literary form during the Victorian Era. It's popularity influenced the success of the newly created "dramatic monologues."
The Novel.
Romantic Poets and Victorian Poets alike appreciated this Italian poetic form, utilizing for poems such as "God's Grandeur," "The World is Too Much With Us," and "Ozymandias."
Petrachan Sonnet/Sonnet
The 1798 publication of this book is often considered the formal start of the Romantic Era.
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads.
“Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:/ Little we see in Nature that is ours;/ We have our hearts away, a sordid boon!”
William Wordsworth, "The World is Too Much With Us"
In Chapters 9 & 10, Victor meets the Creature, agreeing to speak with him in his hut on the top on this mountain in the Swiss Alps. This mountain also served as an inspiration for many Romantic era poets and painters.
Mont Blanc
This disease, used by Victorian Poet Robert Browning as inspiration, may have been the inspiration for early Vampire Myths.
Porphyria
This literary device used the repetition of vowel sounds to highlight certain lines of a poem, or to enhance the metric or aural quality of the compostion..
Assonance.
This later Romantic Poet was also a trained surgeon and apothacary. He suffered from Tuberculosis, and died in 1821. Though, not before published works such as "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be."
John Keats
"The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"
Percy Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind"
The Creature learned to speak and read French, as well as a basic history of Europe and Christianity, from this book that Felix DeLacey used to instruct Safie.
Volney's Ruin of Empires
This Greek Figure served as the inspiration for Alfred, Lord Tennyson's dramatic monologue, which focused on aging and the acceptance of age.
Odysseus
The subject of this early Romantic poem, composed with the help of an opium fever dream, was the thirteenth century Mongol ruler of the Yuan Dynasty, and grandson of Genghis Khan. Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote it in 1797.
"Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream"