Revolutionary+British

Authors during the Revolutionary British Literary Time Period:

 * William Blake
 * Often wrote about the French Revolution but wouldn't sign his name because he went against the government. He didn't believe what the government was doing was right and wrote about how he felt about it.
 * William Wordsworth
 * William was a romantic of the time and believed in the equality of all men. He believed that the government is taking away from his belief in all men are equal.
 * Jane Austen
 * Jane Austen would sign her books anonymously because it was frowned upon for women to be authors. Her books were somewhat influenced by the war but she did not reference them in her work. She was greatly hurt by the war because many of her family members were involved in the political side of the war.
 * John Keats
 * John suffered from many hardships when he was younger. He was poor and went through many different illnesses. Although many others of this time were affected by the revolution, John was not. He often wrote about his hardships.
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 * Unlike most of the other authors of this time, Samuel supported the revolution. Before he began to write he studied politics and he became a great supporter for the revolution and wrote about how great it was in his works.
 * http://britlitwiki.wikispaces.com/The+French+Revolution

Time Period Characteristics:
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 * The soldiers of Cromwell's army believed that they should have the right to vote and stopped believing in their leaders, going against the monarchy. With this happening Cromwell believed that he should be able to come into power and he beheaded the king. During this revolution the women started to speak out against how they were being mistreated. There were men who were called levelers who tried to get everyone to be equal who were sent to jail. The women tried to helped them but they were immediately made to keep quiet. If they still tried to speak up they were often publicly humilated and sometimes they had to watch their kids being drug across streets screaming for help. Kathryn Chitle was one of the most influential woman of the time. She was one of the leaders to try and get the women's message across to the rest of the public.
 * Things then changed for the worse. Some of the soldiers in Cromwell's army heard of these happenings and some joined together to go against the rest of the army. But, these soldiers were soon caught and the leaders of their movement were shot. This movement became very bloody. 3000 soldiers were butchered and the rest of them surrendered and turned in their gear. The soldiers who did not join this movement joined up with Cromwell and they burned down churches full of people who went against them and watched them burn to death.
 * As this happened the English people had Charles II become king of their country. He immediately went to war against Cromwell but that did not work in his favor. Cromwell surrounded them and the king had to be secretly swept from the country so that he was not killed. After this happened and Cromwell saw how powerfull he was he began to start thinking it was time to heal his country after 15 years of war. He saw how the English people still believed in their king and then decided that the best way for their country to run was to turn it into more like the English.

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 * Jane Austen ([])
 * **Sense and Sensibility**- A novel that describes the balance between sense (or being reasonable and following social responsibilities) and sensibility (the act of embracing romance, imagination, and impulsiveness). This book includes description of the ways that life followed social rules related to one’s social class. Those living in better economic conditions were respected as being socially superior to those living in depressed conditions.
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 * **Pride and Prejudice** tells of a courtship where social standings cause issues in the building of romantic relationship. Jane Austen used symbolism often to describe how relationships grow. Pride prevents Elizabeth from seeing Darcy as he truly appears. Meanwhile, Darcy’s class prejudice prevents him from viewing Elizabeth as worthy of his care. Bad social connections throughout the period hinder several couples from making good decisions.
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 * William Wordsworth
 * **Prelude**- Prelude is a psychological epic poem. Wordsworth used his memories and imagination to relay a story of a lifelong journey that ends where the life began. The poem provides an all-inclusive account of the author’s youth and early adult life during the turbulent time of the French Revolution.
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 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 * **The Nightingale**- Samuel Taylor Coleridge remarks how he believes the song of the nightingale is not melancholy as others have portrayed it in this poem. He believes that although people may feel melancholy, nature is not melancholy. Coleridge believes the music of the nightingale should be enjoyed and not interpreted to the mood of the person listening. Coleridge attempts to keep separate the interpretation of what nature means in human emotions against what nature is independently.
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 * John Keats
 * **Addressed to Haydon**-John Keats tells of a painter who is respected and admired because he works hard and is good at his job. This respect is paid even though the painter may not take similar pride in his own personal life. The use of imagery is prevalent in this poem and attracts the senses of the reader.
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Poem Analysis:
"I've a Pain in my Head" By: Jane Austen
 * This poem discusses how a woman goes to the doctor about a pain in her head. Together they try to figure out what they should do for her. The funny thing about this poem is that the doctor doesn't actually prescribe her a medicine, she asks him if she could take calomel brisk. He then says that she is able to take it and he as well will take some. Calomel brisk however isn't a pain killer. It is a type of laxative which helps to clean out your system. The calomel will make her have to go to the bathroom instead of fixing her headache.
 * This poem is told by a narrator. He or she is explaining the conversation of the lady with her doctor about her headache.
 * Different literary devices used in the poem is assonance, consonance, and caesura.
 * For assonance it repeats the vowel sound made by "ea" in head and dread in the first stanza, then again in the second stanza with the same words.
 * For consonance it repeats "sk" in risk and brisk in the third stanza.
 * There is a caesura after calomel brisk, when she asks if it would be okay to take.
 * The style of this poem is clerihew. Clerihew means that the poem is usually comical with a specific rhyming scheme which this poem has. These types of poems are about a person within the first rhyme. In this poem it discusses the headache which the girl has.[]
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