Romantic Romantic ElementsElements

ImaginationImagination• What is it?• Deals with:

– Creative ideas– Seeing what you want in the world around you– Paradoxes

• What is a paradox?– Two opposite ideas working together….these

ideas create one central idea.

ImaginationImagination• You have your own ideas!• You are an independent thinker!• You don’t have the same ideas as

everyone else!• People use imagination to think

creatively.• Poets use imagination to think

creatively AND to express ideas creatively.

When is your When is your imagination imagination most active? most active?

Explain.Explain.3 minutes to answer3 minutes to answer

NatureNature• What is it?• Deals with:

– Seeing plants, animals, and nature as a SYMBOL.– Everything except machines are natural

(organic).– Using precise language to describe nature.– Poetry of “meditation”

• What is meditation?– Taking the time to think about important things

carefully without interruption.

NatureNature• Everything around you can be taken back

to nature. (Except machines…Romantics hated machines!)

• Look at your desk. It’s partly made of wood. Nature is always around us.

• Poets loved nature. They were always trying to surround themselves by nature and understand it.– That’s why so many of their poems deal with

trying to explain the nature around them.

How do you feel How do you feel when you’re when you’re

alone in alone in nature?nature?

2 minutes to answer2 minutes to answer

Symbolism and MythSymbolism and Myth• What is it?• Deals with:

– Interpreting the hidden meaning of an object

– Having one object suggest many things– Representing ideas that can’t be put

into words– Drawing on ideas and traditions that

hold symbolic meaning

Symbolism and MythSymbolism and Myth• We all know the basic symbols. A <3

means love, a ? means you don’t understand something.

• One object can symbolize many different things.

• Star=bright=happy=shining=goodness

• Night sky=darkness=peace=openness• The poet won’t tell you what he thinks

the symbol means. He wants you to decide what you think it means.

What do you What do you think a tree think a tree

could could symbolize? symbolize?

Why?Why?3 minutes to answer3 minutes to answer

EmotionEmotion• What is it?• Deals with:

– Expressing your feelings– Paying attention to how things around

you make you feel– Explaining feelings in simple terms– Explaining feelings by comparisons

• What types of comparisons could poets use?

EmotionEmotion• Meditation can be an important

aspect of figuring out what emotions are.

• When you read your poem, try to “listen” to how the poet feels.

• Don’t use baby words like happy, sad, or angry.

• Instead use words that are specific.

List as many List as many different different

emotions as emotions as you can think you can think

of.of.2 minutes to answer2 minutes to answer

Lyric PoetryLyric Poetry• What is it?• Deals with

– The musical quality of the words– The rhythm– The sound of the poem

Lyric PoetryLyric Poetry• To understand lyric poetry you have

to read the poem aloud• You may have to read it aloud

several times• Think about the way your voice rises

and falls to sound like music• Most of these poems should have an

easy rise and fall like a song

How many How many different styles different styles

of music can of music can you think of?you think of?1 minute to answer1 minute to answer

SelfSelf• What is it?• Deals with:

– Making the poet the speaker– Having a personal expression– Seeing the poet’s perspective– Makes the poet the most important voice

• What is a speaker– The person whose voice you are hearing in the

poem

SelfSelf• You see everything around you from

your perspective• Romantic poems write poems from

their perspective• A lot of times they will say I”” or

“me” or tell a personal story

Describe your Describe your favorite place.favorite place.

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Romantic HeroRomantic Hero• What is it?• Deals with:

– Being bold and expressive– Suggesting meaning instead of saying

exactly what they mean– Not sticking to the “rules” of poetry

Romantic HeroRomantic Hero• The most important person is the

poet.• He is the one making all the

important decisions about the poem.• He doesn’t have to have specific

rhyme scheme or rhythm• The poet decides what to say and

how to say it.

Do you like being Do you like being able to express able to express

yourself yourself independently?independently?

2 minutes to answer2 minutes to answer

Do you remember all the Do you remember all the Romantic Elements?Romantic Elements?

1) Get creative by using your…2) Enjoy the … that surrounds you.3) Discover hidden meanings

through…4) Express how you feel by showing…5) Let the beat flow with…6) The one who REALLY matters is…7) Our bold, suggestive man is a…