Bouazza Azzouzi
Professor Micheal Rumore
English 302
April 20, 2020
- Why Nature plays a huge part in Romanticism era ?
“The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending we lay waste our powers.
Little we see in Nature that is ours.
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon” (1-6) William wordsworth.
The oxford learner’s Dictionaries defines nature as “ all the plants, animals, and things that exist in the universe that are not made by people, and the way that things happen in the physical world when it is not controlled by people” the poets in romantic era gave tremendous respect to the nature against the material changes. With changes that happened people started to shift to material word and left the nature behind, so the romantics specifically the poets put themselves in the first lines to remind people of nature. In addition to that nature has the power to shape the mind ad the imagination of the poets than an industrial revolution cannot achieve.
- What “Shepherd” symbolize in the poem of “The Sea View” by Charlotte Smith
“The upland shepherd, as reclined he lies
On the soft turf that clothes the mountain brow,
Marks the bright sea-line mingling with the skies.
Or from his course celestial sinking low
The summer sun in purple radiance glow” (1-5) Charlotte Smith
Smith uses the Shepherd which refers to a man who control a group of cheap. Smith
Chose “the upland Shepherd” as a symbol of peace mind in a place far away from the
The dirty city. Smith also uses Shepherd to connect spiritually god and earth. Shepherd
Also has a literal meaning of being an innocent person and the closest one to nature
Whom knows the value of the nature. Thus, Smith maybe is tying here to compare two
type of people the one who evaluate the nature, and the ones who destroy it.
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“His face was not of that brown rusty black which most of that nation are, but of perfect ebony, or polished jet. His eyes were the most awful that could be seen, and very piercing; the white of ’em being like snow, as were his teeth. His nose was rising and Roman, instead of African and flat. His mouth the finest shaped that could be seen; far from those great turned lips which are so natural to the rest of the negroes. The whole proportion and air of his face was so nobly and exactly formed that, beating his color, there could be nothing in nature more beautiful, agreeable, and handsome. There was no one grace wanting that bears the standard of true beauty.” Aphra Behn (Oroonoko)
In this passage, we see that Oroonoko described as a European hero. However, throughout the novel, these high European qualities such as roman name or his color are different than Africans, eventually all these fake names and could not help him defeated to fight enslavement because it is too powerful to be solved by European qualities. None of these European old forms and honor gave him the freedom to choose his life as he wants to live. Adapting European characteristics never been a solution for enslavement. The solution is to fight the enslavement disease until you be free as you are as an African man not a free man with European qualities.
- Why many of poet’s chooses “the sea” in their poems
“Is there a solitary wretch who hies
To the tall cliff, with starting pace or slow,
And, measuring, views with wild and hollow eyes
Its distance from the waves that chide below.
Who, as the sea-born gale with frequent sighs?
Chills his cold bed upon the mountain turf,” (1-6) Charlotte Smith
The sea was the central subject for many poets throughout the romantic era. the sea
has a strong connection with nature knowing that nature was one of the main thems and held at a higher level of attention from the poets in the romantic era. Thus, the sea was a symbol of being free from the rules of human and dirty cities during the 1800 century.
- ON BEING BROUGHT FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA.
“Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
Their colour is a diabolic die.”
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,
May be refin’d and join th’ angelic train.” (5-8) PHYLLIS WHEATLEY
This passage gets my attention because of its powerful of imagery that Wheatley used
To deliver her thoughts. Reading the poem in the first time was hard to understand, but
After reading it for the second time, I started to get its meaning by its strong imagery
that Been used “A poem, however, must build its pictures from words. by taking note of its imagery.” Kennedy a Dana Gioia (443). The poet used imagery in such a way that
makes me engage and entering the rooms of the poem. And makes poem enjoyable For readers.
Work Cited
Kennedy, X.J and Gioia Diana. backpack Literature “an introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing.” California, Pearson.2016
Osborn, Michael. The evolution of the Archetypal sea in rhetoric and poetry. Quarterly Journal of speech 1977, vol.63, p.347.
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/nature
