3) 757i84h   French Revolution extended its ideas of freedom and equality in Europe.

Romanticism

· 757i84h     Reaction against the important role of the reason in the ages before with the supremacy of individual feelings and emotions.

· 757i84h     A new way to see the role of man in the Universe.

· 757i84h     A growing interest in humble and everyday life.

· 757i84h     Great attention to the country.

· 757i84h     The rediscovery of the art and popular traditions of the Middle Ages (Gothic vogue: horrific, irrational, supernatural).

· 757i84h     A child was very pure, because he wasn't still civilisation and he was closer to God.

· 757i84h     The Imagination was a way to express emotional experience far from the reason.

· 757i84h     It was exalted the individualism, so the rebel, outcast and atypical.

Nature wasn't an abstract idea or something submitted by man, but was seen as a real concrete part of man's life, something that exist.

The country was the place where man's relationship with nature was still intact in contrast of industrial town.

Childhood was accompanied by the willingness to explore less conscious aspect of feelings.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) though that natural or individualism behaviour were good and society with its rules represented an obstacle for it.

The cult of exotic was anything that was exotic, because it was strange and unpredictable. It was far away both in space and time, because the inexplicable became symbols for modes of humane experience.

Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth

Fist edition without the Preface

with Preface (First Document): explains role and theme of this poetry.

1) 757i84h   lines 1 - 9 the author's objective is to describe situation from common life and make them interesting

2) 757i84h   lines 9 - 18 the subject of poetry is low and rustic life.

3) 757i84h   lines 18 - 35 the language of poetry is less under the influence of society vanity and it's more simple and unelaborated.

4) 757i84h   Lines 36 - 44 the writer thinks contemporary poets are snobbish and higher than the Romantic ones.

5) 757i84h   Lines 45 - 64 the poets qualities compared with common men he has greater sensibility, tenderness, enthusiasm, comprehensive and knowledge of human nature.

6) 757i84h   Lines 65 - 66 the definition of poetry: the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, it origin is from emotions recollected in tranquillity.

7) 757i84h   Lines 67 - 74 the working of poet imagination:

o 757i84h    Sensory experience

o 757i84h    Emotions

o 757i84h    Emotions are recollected in tranquillity

o 757i84h    Contemplation of emotions

o 757i84h    Production of similar emotions

o 757i84h    Poetry

The language is: complex, concrete, didactic, specific, formal.

The speaker is inside the text

The memory of poetry is created.