Ch 17: The Romantic Era See Course Outline for reading assignment. You should print the slides for any paintings that are not shown in your book.

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Ch 17 The Romantic EraSee Course Outline for
reading assignment.You should print the slides
for any paintings that are not shown in your book.
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Featured Works All of the Romantic paintings
shown in this slide presentation or referred to
in the chapter. Shelleys Ode to the West
Wind Whitmans Song of Myself

• Terms
• Romanticism
• nocturne
• opera
• ode (in literature)
• iambic pentameter

Other important works Compositions by
Beethoven Chopins nocturnes Operas by Verdi and
Wagner that we discuss
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Overview of Romanticism

• What are the four characteristics of Romanticism
  described early in the chapter?
• (add information on Romanticism and the cultural
  background from class lecture to your notes)

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Instrumental Music

• Ludwig van Beethoven Know about his life (pp.
  450-51). In what ways does the Pathetique
  express the Romantic spirit?
• http//music.barnesandnoble.com/Beethoven-The-Pian
  o-Sonatas-Vol-2/Andr-s-Schiff/e/028947631002
• Frederic Chopin Be able to define the term
  nocturne and explain how it is romantic.

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Opera Music

• Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner How did opera
  begin to move in a different direction through
  these composers?
• In what ways does Verdis La Traviata exhibit
  Romantic characteristics?
• How did Wagners opera fulfill his goal of
  creating the complete artwork?
• What are Romantic characteristics of The Ring of
  the Nibelung and Tristan and Isolde?

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Art

• Be able to describe the Romantic elements in the
  following paintings.

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• Goya Saturn Devouring One of His Sons

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• Friedrich Cloister Graveyard in the Snow

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• Constable Dedham Lock and Mill

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• Delacroix Liberty Leading the People

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• Heade Two Fighting Hummingbirds with Two Orchids

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• Cole The Clove, Catskill Mountains

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• Eakins Cowboy Singing

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• Eakins Swimming Hole

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Literature

• Because we lack the time to read and consider
  many of the great Romantic writers, we will focus
  on Percy Byshe Shelleys Ode to the West Wind
  and Walt Whitmans Song of Myself. Read these
  poems on the following slides.
• Other writers of the Romantic period include
  Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, Hugo, Tolstoy,
  Dickens, and Thoreau.

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Ode to the West WindPercy Bysshe Shelley

• I
• O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's
  being,Thou, from whose unseen presence the
  leaves deadAre driven, like ghosts from an
  enchanter fleeing,
• Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic
  red,Pestilence-stricken multitudes O thou,Who
  chariotest to their dark wintry bed
• The wingéd seeds, where they lie cold and
  low,Each like a corpse within its grave,
  untilThine azure sister of the Spring shall blow
• Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and
  fill(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in
  air)With living hues and odors plain and hill
• Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhereDestroye
  r and preserver hear, oh, hear!
• II
• Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's
  commotion,Loose clouds like earth's decaying
  leaves are shed,Shook from the tangled boughs of
  Heaven and Ocean,
• Angels of rain and lightning there are spreadOn
  the blue surface of thine aery surge,Like the
  bright hair uplifted from the head

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• Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim vergeOf
  the horizon to the zenith's height,The locks of
  the approaching storm. Thou dirge
• Of the dying year, to which this closing
  nightWill be the dome of a vast
  sepulchre,Vaulted with all thy congregated might
• Of vapors, from whose solid atmosphereBlack
  rain, and fire, and hail will burst oh, hear!
• III
• Thou who didst waken from his summer dreamsThe
  blue Mediterranean, where he lay,Lulled by the
  coil of his crystalline streams,
• Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay,And saw in
  sleep old palaces and towersQuivering within the
  wave's intenser day,
• All overgrown with azure moss and flowersSo
  sweet, the sense faints picturing them! ThouFor
  whose path the Atlantic's level powers
• Cleave themselves into chasms, while far
  belowThe sea-blooms and the oozy woods which
  wearThe sapless foliage of the ocean, know
• Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear,And
  tremble and despoil themselves oh, hear!

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• IV
• If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bearIf I
  were a swift cloud to fly with theeA wave to
  pant beneath thy power, and share
• The impulse of thy strength, only less freeThan
  thou, O uncontrollable! If evenI were as in my
  boyhood, and could be
• The comrade of thy wanderings over Heaven,As
  then, when to outstrip thy skiey speedScarce
  seemed a vision I would ne'er have striven
• As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.Oh,
  lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!I fall upon
  the thorns of life! I bleed!
• A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowedOne
  too like thee tameless, and swift, and proud.
• V
• Make me thy lyre, even as the forest isWhat if
  my leaves are falling like its own!The tumult of
  thy mighty harmonies
• Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone,Sweet
  though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,My
  spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!
• Drive my dead thoughts over the universeLike
  withered leaves to quicken a new birth!And, by
  the incantation of this verse,
• Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearthAshes
  and sparks, my words among mankind!Be through my
  lips to unawakened earth
• The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,If Winter
  comes, can Spring be far behind?

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excerpts from Song of MyselfWalt Whitman

•  1I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what
  I assume you shall assume,For every atom
  belonging to me as good belongs to you.
• I loafe and invite my soul,I lean and loafe at
  my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
• My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from
  this soil, this air,Born here of parents born
  here from parents the same, and their    parents
  the same,I, now thirty-seven years old in
  perfect health begin,Hoping to cease not till
  death.
• Creeds and schools in abeyance,Retiring back a
  while sufficed at what they are, but never
  forgotten,I harbor for good or bad, I permit to
  speak at every hazard,Nature without check with
  original energy.
• . . .

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•   2Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the
  shelves are crowded with    perfumes,I breathe
  the fragrance myself and know it and like it,The
  distillation would intoxicate me also, but I
  shall not let it.
• The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste
  of the    distillation, it is odorless,It is
  for my mouth forever, I am in love with it,I
  will go to the bank by the wood and become
  undisguised and naked,I am mad for it to be in
  contact with me.
• . . .
• Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have
  you reckon'd the earth much?Have you practis'd
  so long to learn to read?Have you felt so proud
  to get at the meaning of poems?
• Stop this day and night with me and you shall
  possess the origin of    all poems,You shall
  possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are
  millions    of suns left,)You shall no longer
  take things at second or third hand, nor look
  through    the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the
  spectres in books,You shall not look through my
  eyes either, nor take things from me,You shall
  listen to all sides and filter them from your
  self.

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• 52The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he
  complains of my gab    and my loitering.
• I too am not a bit tamed, I too am
  untranslatable,I sound my barbaric yaws over the
  roofs of the world.
• The last scud of day holds back for me,It
  flings my likeness after the rest and true as any
  on the shadow'd wilds,It coaxes me to the vapor
  and the dusk.
• I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the
  runaway sun,I effuse my flesh in eddies, and
  drift it in lacy jags.
• I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the
  grass I love,If you want me again look for me
  under your boot-soles.
• You will hardly know who I am or what I
  mean,But I shall be good health to you
  nevertheless,And filter and fibre your blood.
• Failing to fetch me at first keep
  encouraged,Missing me one place search
  another,I stop somewhere waiting for you.