Week Two
CRITICAL COMMENTS
Ok, so, just to clarify, in this post I shall be addressing the lecture we had in week one in conjunction with the tutorial we had in week two. So, passion and prudence was the hot topic for the week and the context for the romantic period became very evident. I had a brief knowledge of time periods such as The Revolution, The Enlightenment, Romantic Movement and such but this lecture really helped clarify things as MG put them in a consequential order. I could understand the Romantic period with so much more profundity by simply knowing it was a response of the enlightenment period.
The enlightenment period was an age intrigued by newfound ideologies of rationality and philosophical inquiry based on scientifical reasoning. I can see how this would excite some audiences but at the same time absolutely devastate and traumatise others!
This formed a new breed of people soon to be referred to as the romantics. From what I know about these romantics thus far, I have come to love them! They were passionate, free spirits determined to utilise all of the capabilities of the human imagination and restore aestheticism to analysis.
We scraped the tip of the iceberg in this week’s tutorial, which was delightful. I particularly enjoyed contrasting and comparing London’s Summer Morning by Mary Robinson and London by William Blake, two well-known romantic poets. William Blake’s views of London seemed that bit more tormented, whereas Robinson takes a much more light-hearted view of the busy going-ons of England.
Ok, so, just to clarify, in this post I shall be addressing the lecture we had in week one in conjunction with the tutorial we had in week two. So, passion and prudence was the hot topic for the week and the context for the romantic period became very evident. I had a brief knowledge of time periods such as The Revolution, The Enlightenment, Romantic Movement and such but this lecture really helped clarify things as MG put them in a consequential order. I could understand the Romantic period with so much more profundity by simply knowing it was a response of the enlightenment period.
The enlightenment period was an age intrigued by newfound ideologies of rationality and philosophical inquiry based on scientifical reasoning. I can see how this would excite some audiences but at the same time absolutely devastate and traumatise others!
This formed a new breed of people soon to be referred to as the romantics. From what I know about these romantics thus far, I have come to love them! They were passionate, free spirits determined to utilise all of the capabilities of the human imagination and restore aestheticism to analysis.
We scraped the tip of the iceberg in this week’s tutorial, which was delightful. I particularly enjoyed contrasting and comparing London’s Summer Morning by Mary Robinson and London by William Blake, two well-known romantic poets. William Blake’s views of London seemed that bit more tormented, whereas Robinson takes a much more light-hearted view of the busy going-ons of England.