Wednesday, October 29, 2008

step one Romantic period

1. Historic Events:
During the times of the romantic period the united states banned outlawing in the british empire of importing slaves for . Also during this time one of the most important was the international bill of rights was signed just another step toward people having much better lives, alongside with the statue of liberty being unvieled. Then finally in 1865 the American Civil War ended, this restored some order of peace to the people in America.

2: i think that life for them was just too much overwhelming, like slavery and the civil war happening at the same time which people just asked for peace and to be safe untill many things had changed over time making their lives a little bit better.

3:some poems were based on the average everyday lives of some people that has experienced effects from the war, The poetry of the major Romantic writers mostly concerned with the war—Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley, talking about liberty and justice. The French Revolution provided a ready focus for British poets. Even before the Revolution took place, the thinking which they got inspired.

Shelley also made use of the broadside to circulate war verses. His early opposition to the war, as well as to the aristocracy and Napoleon, is demonstrated in his Esdaile Note-Book poems. Since poets who supported the war as well as those who opposed it use the same terms, some distinction must be made between them according to the context in which the terms are used. Certainly the use of "liberty" in the lines:
Yet, happy Britain!—with proportion'd weightsGuard the just balance of thy three Estates;For, in that balance only, canst thou findOrder and rule, with Liberty combined. Cautions to England


differs alot from the concept expressed by the author of Ode, Written on the opening of the Last Campaign:
. . . if on this hour The fate of Freedom shall depend—If o'er this earth th' Eternal Pow'r The scale of Justice now extend.For then, O Spring, thy sun shall see The patriot flame triumphant shine;GALLIA shall bid the world be free,And WAR his blood-stain'd throne resign!

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