THE CITY AS FIGURE OF DARKNESS, STRESS, SADNESS…(from Georgians to
Post-Modernism)
1.INTRODUCTIONŕ Carmina Peiró Doménech
2.ROMANTICISM
‘Romantic’ is a term that covers the most distinctive writers who
flourished in the last years of the 18th century and the first
decades of the 19th c, ‘Romantic’ is indispensable but also a little
misleading: there was no self-styled ‘Romantic movement’ at the time, and the
great writers of the period did not call themselves Romantics. www.britannica.com/eb/topic-508675/Romanticism
The publication, in 1798, by the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel
Taylor Coloridge of a volume entitled Lyrical Ballads is a significant
event in English literary history. This
volume, a watershed in literary history, presented a liberating aesthetic:
poetry should express, in genuine language, experience as filtered through
personal emotion and imagination. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrical_Ballads
2.1 Romantic characteristics
Resulting in part from the
libertarian and egalitarian ideals of the French Revolution, the romantic
movements had in common only a revolt against the prescribed rules of classicism. The basic aims of romanticism were various: a return
to nature and to belief in the goodness of humanity; the rediscovery of the
artist as a supremely individual creator; the development of nationalistic
pride; and the exaltation of the senses and emotions over reason and intellect.
In addition, romanticism was a philosophical revolt against rationalism. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0860797.html
2.2
Romantic poetry
Romantic poetry
displays a return to nature by man, which is strongly seen in the works of Wordsworth.
Further, the Romantic poets were frustrated by the limitations placed on
knowledge and the human condition by the Enlightenment's valorization of reason
over emotion. As a result, the Romantics often praised imagination as a means
of furthering systems of knowledge they believed were truncated by embracing
reason soley. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_poetry
3. DARK ROMANTICISMŕ Horte Pla Blasco
5.ANALYSIS FROM
WWI POETRY UNTIL POST-MODERNISM POETRY
5.1. GEORGIANS VS
ROMANTICIMSŕ Carmen Bernabeu Sanvictorino
World War I has inspired great novels, drama and poetry. During
the war itself, it has been estimated that thousands of poems were written
every day by combatants and their relatives. After the war, many participants
published their memoirs and diaries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature_of_World_War_I
A common subject for fiction in the 1920s and
1930s was the effect of the war, including shell-shock and the huge social changes
caused by the war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature_of_World_War_I
Shell-shock, is a term used to categorize the
long-term results of stress in war conditions during World War I
and World War II.
The most common symptom is fatigue: slower reaction times, indecision,
disconnection from one's surroundings, and inability to prioritize. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_shock
One of the themes that we have to analize is the
darkness, sadness, stress…in the city. Romantics reject the idea of living in a
city, they thought that the city brought that three aspects. Romantic believed
in the senses and passions instead of the reason.
Poetry of the WWI is characterised by the use of
feelings, they wanted to recreate the situation with a great use of adjectives
and descriptive words. All WWI poets wanted to express the horrors of the war,
because of it they used a perfect vocabulary to recreate this atmosphere. But,
did the WWI poets want to show the darkness, sadness, stress? I think that they
use that language in order to affect our sensitivity, so they showed the
darkness of the war, the sadness…
Most of the WWI poems showed the cites, dark
cities where we can feel the horror, the sadness. Poets used to describe alone
people, so, here the poets transmit the loneliness. We can find poems where
they talked about the combats, with a fluid language we can feel the stress of
the soldiers.
So, the purpose
of the romantics is to show the sadness of the city, the WWI poets wants to
make feel to the reader the consequences of the war, when they arrived to the
city, they found a dark city tainted by the war and the sad people.
5.3.MODERNISM vs ROMANTICISMŕ Horte Pla Blasco
5.4POST-MODERNISM vs ROMANTICISMŕ Xavi Moreno Estruch
6. CONCLUSIONŕ Carmina
Peiró Doménech