1. Agenda To Get: To Do: Handouts from the front
Notebook pages for Romanticism
To Do:
Turn in Romantic Self Portrait – 40 points
Romantic Literature Mini-Lesson
Romantic Study Guide (Test Tuesday!)
Kahoot Review

2. Notebook Check Items 150 151/152 (20 points) Visual Art Day 2 158
159/160
English Romantic Lit. Notes
Study Guide

3. Romantic Literature
The subjects of many English Romantic literary artists included… -NATURE (along with morbidity, life and death)
-One of the central ideas that English Literary artists pursued was the SUBLIME in nature.

4. Two ways to view the sublime in nature
Threatening forces: scale, power or raw force
-which could be “terrible” and life-threatening, as well as curious and beautiful.
Subtle, tranquil beauty:
-sunrise, sunsets, relaxing beauty of the outdoors

5. Thomas Cole – Epic Landscapes

9. Romantic Poets Emily Dickenson Edgar Allen Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman

10. The American Romantic poet Emily Dickenson very often utilized themes of nature and life and death in her poetry.

11. Poetry Analysis: I Heard a Fly Buzz
I willed my Keepsakes - Signed away What portions of me be Assignable - and then it was There interposed a Fly - With Blue uncertain stumbling Buzz Between the light and me And then the Windows failed and then I could not see to see
I heard a Fly buzz - when I died The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air Between the Heaves of Storm
The Eyes around had wrung them dry And Breaths were gathering firm For that last Onset - when the King Be witnessed in the Room

18. Composers
Song Titles
Beethoven
Wagner
Tchaikovsky
Fur Elise
5th Symphony
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Ride of the Valkyries

19. Multiple Choice 15 minutes to answer the questions you know
5 minutes to ask me questions for ones you are clueless on
Find the rest of the answers on your own using your notes or the slides on my webpage!

20. Modern Example? Don’t Fear the Reaper