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Concetti Chiave

  • Romanticism marked a stylistic revolution by rejecting classical poetic diction in favor of individuality and free language.
  • Unlike Classicism's focus on urbanity and rationality, Romanticism emphasized imagination, nature, and the countryside.
  • The term "Romanticism" is linked to medieval "romance languages," reflecting a desire to reconnect with national origins.
  • In England, Romanticism began in 1798 with Wordsworth and Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads," highlighting subjectivity and medieval influences.
  • Wordsworth aimed to make the ordinary extraordinary, while Coleridge sought to make the supernatural relatable through different poetic techniques.

Indice

  1. La rivoluzione stilistica del Romanticismo
  2. Origini e significato del termine Romanticismo
  3. L'inizio del Romanticismo in Inghilterra
  4. Differenze tra Wordsworth e Coleridge

La rivoluzione stilistica del Romanticismo

The Romanticism is first of all a stylistic revolution. The poetic diction that characterized the classical elegy (according to which the language of the poetry must be different from the common language with different and particular vocabulary) is completely rejected by the romantics. The romantics rejected every rules and they focused on the individuality and on the free language that should be suitable for the personal vision of the poet. While the Classicism focused on the urbanity, on the city, on the society, the Romanticism focused on the individuality, on the countryside, on the nature and while Classicism means rationality, the Romanticism means imagination. So the Romanticism is a revolution because we can see a total rejection of the poetic rules. The most used verse in the Classicism was the "heroic couplet" (rima baciata), now the new romantic poets started to use a free and personal poetic language.

Origini e significato del termine Romanticismo

The word "Romanticism" comes from the word "romance". This word refers to the medieval age when the "romance languages" (lingue romanze) were born, after the fall of the roman empire. This type of languages will become the national languages; for this reason the romantics wanted to come back to the medieval ages to recuperate the origins of the national folks (unlike the Enlightenment which rejected the medieval age and studied the classical wolrd).

L'inizio del Romanticismo in Inghilterra

In England there is an exact date that mark the beginning of the Romanticism: the 1798. This was the year of publication of the "Lyrical ballads" written by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Already in the title we can drow two important element that will characterized the Romantic movement: the focus on the subject (marked by the word "lyrical" that refers to an interior, intimate, subjective and personal world), the interest for the medieval age and so the need to take back again the medieval poetic form of the ballad (marked by the word "ballads").

Differenze tra Wordsworth e Coleridge

The two poet that work together to write this poem were very different from each other; in fact they had two different finality. The finality of Wordsworth was to make uncommon an common thing; so his start point is the natural and he used the process of "recollection in tranquility" to make an ordinary thing extraordinary, while the finality of Coleridge was to make an uncommon thing common; so his start point is the supernatural and he used the process of "suspension of disbelief" to make an extraordinary thing acceptable to the human mind.

So we can say that Romanticism is the recombination of a world made of reality and imaginary.

Domande da interrogazione

  1. Qual è la principale rivoluzione stilistica del Romanticismo?
  2. Il Romanticismo rappresenta una rivoluzione stilistica poiché rifiuta la dizione poetica classica, promuovendo un linguaggio libero e personale adatto alla visione individuale del poeta.

  3. Qual è l'origine del termine "Romanticismo"?
  4. Il termine "Romanticismo" deriva dalla parola "romance", che si riferisce al medioevo, periodo in cui nacquero le lingue romanze, e i romantici volevano recuperare le origini dei popoli nazionali.

  5. Qual è l'importanza del 1798 nel contesto del Romanticismo inglese?
  6. Il 1798 segna l'inizio del Romanticismo in Inghilterra con la pubblicazione delle "Lyrical Ballads" di William Wordsworth e Samuel Taylor Coleridge, che evidenziano l'interesse per il soggetto e il recupero delle forme poetiche medievali.

  7. Quali sono le differenze tra Wordsworth e Coleridge nel loro approccio poetico?
  8. Wordsworth mirava a rendere straordinario l'ordinario attraverso la "recollection in tranquility", mentre Coleridge cercava di rendere accettabile l'incredibile tramite la "suspension of disbelief".

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