Romanticism+vs.+Realism


 * || Romanticism || Realism ||
 * Time Period || * 1800-1855
 * Response to emphasis on reason during the Enlightenment era.
 * Gothicism is a submovement || * 1865-1914
 * Response to Romanticism after war and industrial revolution
 * Naturalism: nature is indifferent towards us ||
 * Major Ideas || * imagination
 * The simplicity and beauty of nature
 * passionate emotion
 * Individualism
 * Exotic elements
 * Idealism || * Showcase the gritty truth
 * Offer commentary and solutions to prevalent socioeconomic dilemmas of their time
 * Authors of this era tried to maintain objectivity in their work when discussing solutions
 * gender inequality
 * social class discrepancy
 * uneven wealth distribution ||
 * Major Authors || * Alexander Dumas
 * William Blake
 * "The Lamb" and "The Tyger"
 * William Wordsworth
 * "The World Is Too Much With Us Late and Soon"
 * Percy Shelley
 * Mary Shelley
 * John Keats
 * "Ode on a Grecian Urn" || * Charles Dickens
 * //Great Expectations//
 * //David Copperfield//
 * //Oliver Twist//
 * Mark Twain
 * //The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn//
 * //The Adventures of Tom Sawyer//
 * Kate Chopin
 * //The Awakening//
 * Henrik Ibsen
 * "A Doll's House"

"Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats (1795-1821 THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Though winning near the goal—yet, do not grieve; <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair! <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">And, happy melodist, unwearièd, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">For ever piping songs for ever new; <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">More happy love! more happy, happy love! <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">For ever panting, and for ever young; <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">All breathing human passion far above, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">A burning forehead, and a parching tongue. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Who are these coming to the sacrifice? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">To what green altar, O mysterious priest, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">And all her silken flanks with garlands drest? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">What little town by river or sea-shore, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">And, little town, thy streets for evermore <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Will silent be; and not a soul, to tell <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">O Attic shape! fair attitude! with brede <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Of marble men and maidens overwrought, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">With forest branches and the trodden weed; <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Thou, silent form! dost tease us out of thought <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">When old age shall this generation waste, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.' <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Keats the role of a Grecian urn in preserving history speaking in a reverent tone with fanciful diction. Keats elevates the urn from merely being pottery with aesthetic appeal by giving it a persona with near omniscience in mankind's history up until the time of its creation. Keats gives the urn this persona by using epithets such as "bride of quietness" and "foster-child of Silence and slow Time." The Grecian urn also serves as the concrete aspect of Keats extended metaphor, showing how the idealized version off history portrayed on hardened tapestry can easily be shattered or dwindle in importance as time passes.

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