Britské studie - seminář-zápisky

First generation of poets:

• William Blake

• William Wordsworth

• Samuel Coleridge

• Dorothy Wordsworth [vočvrth]

• They lived in Lake District, only Blake was in London

• They escaped in nature – there were many lakes, they wrote poems

• A woman author was not regarded in those times, Dorothy lived in the shadow of her brother

The second generation of poets:

• Lord Byron

• Percy Bishe Shelley – he was an atheist, he was interested in politics, in the life of common, poor people

• John Keats

• Mary Shelley – wife of the Shelley

• They were more interested in society, in politics

• Lyrical Ballads – poems written by Wordsworth and Coleridge – 1798 – the prefix of collection was written by them

• Wordsworth was born in 1770 – romanticism was a bit earlier in England

• William and Dorothy were well connected – they loved each other very much

• He was sent to Cambridge to study

• She was not, because girls were not admitted to university

• He was admirer of French revolution

• He visited France

• He considered that England is too slow in giving rights to people

Bishe Shelley

• The Solitary Reaper (reaper = farmer) – a woman who is alone in the field and she reaps the crop and she sings a song, this song fascinates him, it is an escape for him

• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

• Don Juan

• Childe Harold

• The Giaonr – giaonr = muslims use it for people who don’t believe in Allah

• Ode to the West Wind

• Prometheus Unbound

Book by Wordsworth - Daffodil (narciska) – it is a yellow flower

Poem from this book:

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I wandered lonely as a cloud – it is a comparison

That floats on high o’er vales and hills, → o’er = over, vales = valley

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils; → a host = a multitude; golden = it is not ordinary colour, yellow would be banal

Beside the lake, beneath the trees, → beside = near the lake

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. → fluttering = wind blows and flowers move, they seem to dance, it is a motion – it follows a rhythm

Rhyme –embraced rhyme and then couplet, it is a sound rhyme

Tropes -

Continuous as the stars that shine – comparison – it reflects the beauty of the flowers and the sky

And twinkle on the milky way, → twinkle = třpytit

They stretched in never-ending line → stretch = natahovat;never-ending line-hyperbole – there are so many flowers

Along the margin of a bay: → margin = okraj , bay = zátoka

Ten thousand saw I at a glance, → glance = rychlý pohled; ten thousand = hyperbole, ten = good number

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. → tossing = házení , sprightly = čilý, bujný – full of life; movement

• Rhyme – the same pattern

The waves beside them danced; but they – they move in regular way, in the rhythm

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: → out-did = překonat, glee = happiness – the colours are very strong, powerful

A poet could not but be gay, → gay means happy in this poem – a poet must be happy – this is escape

In such a jocund company: → jocund = happy, in a good mood