Concetti Chiave
- Romanticism emerged as a reaction against neoclassicism, emphasizing feelings and imagination over reason and order.
- Childhood was seen as the sacred phase of life, highlighting its importance in the Romantic Age.
- Poetry became a medium for poets to express their soul, using common language accessible to everyone with sensitivity.
- The first generation of Romantic poets, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Blake, initially supported the revolution, later facing criticism from the second generation.
- Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge served as the manifesto of Romanticism, focusing on everyday life and supernatural themes, with poetry as an emotional expression.
Romantic Age
The romanticism is born in opposition to the neoclassicism. The romantic age gives importance to feelings and imagination in opposition to the agustan values that give importance to the reason and the order. The childhood becomes the most important phase of the human life because the childhood was considered sacred. In this age the poetry is the strument through which one the poet express his own soul. Moreover the language is no more sophisticated but becomes a common language.
Lyrical Ballads And Wordsworth vision of poet and nature:
Lyrical Ballads was the result of the collaboration between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge . The first edition focused his attention on every day life and the second one on supernatural themes. The firs edition was publicated in 1798 and second one in 1800.
In those years was publicated also the preface of wordsworth that contained the main features of the new romantic poetry.
-As Subjects we have incindets and situation from every day life.
Language was ordinary , the language of common people.
Imagination: as a strument to transform common things in something special, special things.
Poetry: becomes the ''spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings''
that in Wordsworth derive from ''emotion recollected in
tranquillity'' through memories.
Wordsworth vision of poet and Nature.
Nature was for Wordsworth a ''livigin presence'' through which one man could discover the presence of God. The poet becomes a ''Priest'' because leads the mankind through the contemplation of nature to the
discovery of God.
Domande da interrogazione
- Qual è l'importanza dell'infanzia nell'età romantica?
- Quali sono le caratteristiche principali della poesia romantica secondo Wordsworth?
- Come vede Wordsworth il rapporto tra il poeta e la natura?
Nell'età romantica, l'infanzia è considerata la fase più importante della vita umana perché viene vista come sacra.
La poesia romantica secondo Wordsworth si concentra su incidenti e situazioni della vita quotidiana, utilizza un linguaggio comune e si basa sull'immaginazione per trasformare cose comuni in qualcosa di speciale.
Wordsworth vede la natura come una "presenza vivente" attraverso la quale l'uomo può scoprire la presenza di Dio, e il poeta diventa un "sacerdote" che guida l'umanità alla scoperta di Dio tramite la contemplazione della natura.
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