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The Victorian Era

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Romantic/Victorian distinction not sharp. long era--lots of poetry and it varied ' ... Could represent doubt and fragmentation directly, e.g. 'Dover Beach' ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: The Victorian Era


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The Victorian Era
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Finding a representative poem difficult, because
  • Romantic/Victorian distinction not sharp
  • long era--lots of poetry and it varied
  • representative implies a unified entity, but
    the Victorian era was the one which called unity
    into question

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Era of exposure to other ways of thinking
  • Railroads
  • Age of Empire

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Era of rapid change
  • Industrialization
  • Political reform
  • Beginnings of womens movement
  • Beginnings of religious doubt on wide scale
  • Progress

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So the representative poem
  • Could represent doubt and fragmentation directly,
    e.g. Dover Beach
  • Could invoke issues of perspective and point of
    view in its form dramatic monologue
  • In comparison, then...
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