Applying I A Richard's theory in songs

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Name: Gohil Beenaba s

paper: Literary Criticiam

Roll No: 13

Batch:2015-17

Email Id: binagohil1995@gmail.com

Subject: Appling I.A.Richard's theory in verious hindi and gurati songs.

Submitted to: M.K.Bhavnagar university, department of English.

Kalaiyaan… Kalaiyaan…

Tu leya de meinu golden jhumke..
Main kanna vich paavan chum chum ke (x3)
Mann jaa ve… mainu shopping kara de
Mann jaa ve… romantic picture dikha de
Requestaan paayiaan ve..
Chittiyaan kalaiyaan ve
Oh baby meri chittiyan kalaiyan ve
Chittiyaan kalaiyaan ve
Oh baby meri white kalaiyaan ve (ho..)
Chittiyaan kalaiyaan ve
Oh baby meri teri hisse aayiaan ve (ok ok!)
Chittiyaan kalaiyaan ve
Oh baby meri chittiyan kalaiyan ve.. (ho..) (x2)
(chittiyaan kalaiyan means: white wrists)
Yeah
You’re my darling angel baby
White kalaiyan drives me crazy
Shiney eyes say glitt glitt glittery
You’re the light that makes me go hazy (x2)
Oh mainu chadhiya hai rang rang
Main khwabaan de sang sang aaj ud’di phiran
Main saari raat ud’di phiran
Oh badle jindadi de rang dhang
Meri neendein bhi tang tang, aaj ud’di phiran
Main saari raat ud’di phiran
Mann jaa ve… gulabi chunni diva de
Mann jaa ve… colourful chudi pavaa de
Requestaan paayiaan ve..
Chittiyaan kalaiyaan ve
Oh baby meri chittiyan kalaiyan ve
Chittiyaan kalaiyaan ve
Oh baby meri white kalaiyaan ve (ho..)
Chittiyaan kalaiyaan ve
Oh baby meri teri hisse aayiaan ve (ok ok!)
Chittiyaan kalaiyaan ve
Oh baby meri chittiyan kalaiyan ve.. (ho)
Ghumde phirde saare chitiyaan milgiyan
Chittiyaan kalaaiyan ve (kalaaiyan ve..)
Tere hathaan nu chumda rehnda
Kam tu lai laiyaan, oh chittiyaan ve
(oh chittiyaan ve!)
Mann jaa ve… mainu shopping kara de
Mann jaa ve… romantic picture dikha de
Requestaan paayiaan ve..
Chittiyaan kalaiyaan ve
Oh baby meri chittiyan kalaiyan ve
Chittiyaan kalaiyaan ve
Oh baby meri white kalaiyaan ve (ho..)
Chittiyaan kalaiyaan ve
Oh baby meri teri hisse aayiaan ve (ok ok!)
Chittiyaan kalaiyaan ve
Oh baby meri chittiyan kalaiyan ve.. (ho)

Singers: Meet Bros. Anjjan & Kanika Kapoor
Music: Meet Bros. Anjjan
Lyrics: Kumaar

This song is from movie Roy. I found is can be avery interesting study. Because if we listen his song very carefully ew find that in this song nothing is new though we find it very intersting and we enjoyed it. This song is one of the popolar song of the movie Roy. Lets see this song from I A Richard's theory.

Tu leya de meinu golden jhumke..
Main kanna vich paavan chum chum ke

Mann jaa ve… mainu shopping kara de
Mann jaa ve… romantic picture dikha de
Requestaan paayiaan ve..

Mann jaa ve… gulabi chunni diva de
Mann jaa ve… colourful chudi pavaa de

This are some selected wordings from the song. In this wording very basic women desires are reflected. Women's desaire about shopping'earings' dupatta and so on. Here we can compaire it with very famous gujrati song “Chelajiii re... mari satu Patan thi patola mongha lavjo....”

In this Gujrati song a girl similarly asking for Sari like Dupatta.

You’re my darling angel baby
White kalaiyan drives me crazy
Shiney eyes say glitt glitt glittery
You’re the light that makes me go hazy

Now we came to other stanza. This stanza is about paraising the womwn's beauty and her eyes and other. That her eyes are glittering and make carzy a man. This is what exatly we find in one of the Gujrati Gazal the wordings of the Gazal are: Tari aankh no afin. The other example of it is song from movie Dbangga “tere mast mast do nain , mere dil a legye chaine” this all are came from century about praising the women's different body parts.Eyes are by and large very effactive and made palce in poetry.

But notable thing in this song is changing martaphors . How metaphors are changed with time.

Main khwabaan de sang sang aaj ud’di phiran
Main saari raat ud’di phiran

In this lines sapressed women disre are reflected. That she wants freedom,she wants to fly in sky no one stop her.

The problematic thing the song if when we look it from feministic view than we find that this male domonated society think that women wiil be happy if u give tham expenciv gifts and shopping and like silly things but it is not so.

Jab Life Ho Out Of Control, Honto Ko Karke Gol
Honto Ko Karke Gol, Siti Bajaake Bol... (2)
Aal Izz Well

Murgi Ka Jaane Ande Ka Kya Hoga
Are Life Milegi Ya Tave Pe Fry Hoga
Koyi Na Jaane Apana Future Kya Hoga
Hont Ghuma Siti Baja, Siti Bajaake Bol
Bhaiya Aal Izz Well, Are Bhaiya Aal Izz Well
Are Chaachu Aal Izz Well, Are Bhaiya Aal Izz Well

Confusion Hi Confusion Hai Solution Kuchh Pata Nahi
Solution Jo Mile Toh Saala Question Kya Tha Pata Nahi
Dil Jo Tere Baat Baat Pe Ghabraaye
Dil Pe Rakh Ke Haath Use Tu Fusala Le
Dil Idiot Hai Pyaar Se Usako Samajha Le
Hont Ghuma Siti Baja, Siti Bajaake Bol
Bhaiya Aal Izz Well, Are Bhaiya Aal Izz Well
Are Chaachu Aal Izz Well, Are Bhaiya Aal Izz Well

Music : Shantanu Moitra
Lyrics : Swanand Kirkire
Singers : Shaan, Sonu Nigam & Swanand Kirkire

This song is from blokbuster hindi movie Three Idiot. This song is very interesting. Because in this song we find the truble of moodern life problems like stdent's wish and hrdwork for good marks and top rank. And comman man's stuggle for survive in this world of technology.

Confusion Hi Confusion Hai Solution Kuchh Pata Nahi
Solution Jo Mile Toh Saala Question Kya Tha Pata Nahi

This lines are proparly express the situaltion of cmman man in this era. That there is many confusion the world and we are constantly struggled to find out the solution but we ourself became confuse in the problrm and when we find the solution there no need of it and ut became meaningless. But in only next line there is solution.

Dil Jo Tere Baat Baat Pe Ghabraaye
Dil Pe Rakh Ke Haath Use Tu Fusala Le
Dil Idiot Hai Pyaar Se Usako Samajha Le

This lines are talking that our heart always wants to see which is not real it likes to be in illusion. So this lines says that let be your heart in illusion and be happy.

Murgi Ka Jaane Ande Ka Kya Hoga
Are Life Milegi Ya Tave Pe Fry Hoga
Koyi Na Jaane Apana Future Kya Hoga
Hont Ghuma Siti Baja, Siti Bajaake Bol

This lines have philisphical tiouch in the funny ways and on very light mood that no one is able to see their future that why we bother oueselves lie be iin present and enjoy the life. This is similarly goes with one Gurati line “ Na jnayu janki nathe su thvanu kale savre”

(4)Saami sanjno Dhol thabukto, jan ughlti mahle

kesariyalo safo ghar nu faliyu lay ne chale”

padar besi fafdi uthati

gharcholani bhat

duske duske hadselati

balpan ni vat

paidu sinchta rasto aakho

kolahalma khunpe

shaishav ni chitreli sheri

sunkar ma dube.

Jan vlavi pacho valto

divdo tharthar kanpe

khadiki pase ubho rhi ne

ajvala ne jhankhe.

Saami sanjno Dhol thabukto, jan ughlti mahle

kesariyalo safo ghar nu faliyu lay ne chale”

This Gujrati is written by Anil Joshi which is now in standared 9^th sayllabus. I find that this song can be a very interesting study for this therory. In this poem feeling of father and a daughter is very well captured by poet. Starting of the poem says that the tome is of noon which is itself symbol of something bad or unwanted. The line is “ Saami sanjno Dhol thabukto, jan ughlti mahle” the second line is “ kesariyalo safo ghar nu faliyu lay ne chale” which means

daughter is go to her in laws home and her father thinking that h light and heart of his home is also goes her with her daughter .

padar besi fafdi uthati

gharcholani bhat

duske duske hadselati

balpan ni vat

The next stanza is about feeling of girl that she recalling her childhood and get i rid of it by her tears.

paidu sinchta rasto aakho

kolahalma khunpe

shaishav ni chitreli sheri

sunkar ma dube.

The next lines are while doing the rituals women are singing a song and in that sound girls childood is goes in to dark.

Jan vlavi pacho valto

divdo tharthar kanpe

khadiki pase ubho rhi ne

ajvala ne jhankhe

The last stanza is teling many thing that after the marraige everybody came to home ant that time evrybody looking for a person whom that thmselve give ferwell.

        I tried to apply I A Richard’s theory in the song “Patakkha Guddi” in High way. Lyrics of this songs given by Irshad Kamil.  In this song many metaphors were, some are appropriate to the story and some are found far-fetched. The most attractive metaphors are:

·         tera mali

·         Maula Hariyali jungle wali

·         jugani

·         Rukh peepal

·         Chakk chakaute javve…

·         Fatte mar di billoari

·              mel mel ke kood,faand ke,

·         Fatte mar di billoari

·              mel mel ke kood,faand ke,

The very first line of the song is…..

Mitthe paan di gillauri

Lathha suit da Lahori

                Fatte maardi billori,

               mel mel ke kood,faand ke,

                 I this line  poet describe a girl hwo is having sweet paan and wearing Lahori suit,having fun.This song is from Bollywood and now Lahor is in Pakistan. So that the first image pope up in our mind is of Pakistani girl.so it can considered as inappropriate.

                              

     The next stanza is…..

Maula tera maali,

O hariyali jungle waali,

tu de har gaali pe taali,

uski kadam kadam rakhwali

 Ainweyi lok laj ki soch soch ke

Kyun he aafat daali

Tu le naam rab ka naam saai ka

Ali Ali Ali Ali

        In this line very old and familier metaphore was used like god is considered as a gardener  and people as their gardene or jungle. Here another Hindi movie song is also recall is title song of the movie Bagban that…

Bago ke har phool ko apna samje bagban

Bagban rab he bangban, bagban rab he bagban

    In this two selected lines again god is considered as gardener and the massage is god will take care of his all the child.

 The other lines are….

Jugani rukh peepal da hoi,

Jis nu pooje ta har koi,

Jisdi fasal kisi na boyi,

Ghar bhi rakh sake na koi…

         In this line comparision of the girl with the tree of peepal , which is worshiped by everyone, yet no one seeded it and also don’t want to put it near their home. To know the reason why people don’t want peepal tree near their home one should know the Hindu myth redarding this peepal tree. According to Hindu mythology ancestor were living in this people tree that’s why everybody worship it but do not seeded it.

    This is my small try to appy I A Richard’s theory with my understanding.

             
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post colonial studies

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Name: Gohil Beenaba s

paper: Caltural Studies

Roll no: 12

Email id: binagohil1995@gmail.com

subject: post colonial Studies

Submitted to: M K Bhavanagar University, Department of English

To understand post colonial studies we first have to understand the concept of colonialism and than we ternd to post colonialism. As we all konw that from 18^th century to 20^th century England rules over the world. They established their colonies in Asia, Africa and many of countries of the world. But after the second world war differst countries started rebel and get freedom , Indian is oe of them.and after that the oncept of post colonialism is came in front of world.

The field of Postcolonial Studies has been gaining prominence since the 1970s. Some would date its rise in the Western academy from the publication of Edward Said’s influential critique of Western constructions of the Orient in his 1978 book, Orientalism. The growing currency within the academy of the term “postcolonial” (sometimes hyphenated) was consolidated by the appearance in 1989 of The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. Since then, the use of cognate terms “Commonwealth” and “Third World” that were used to describe the literature of Europe’s former colonies has become rarer. Although there is considerable debate over the precise parameters of the field and the definition of the term “postcolonial,” in a very general sense, it is the study of the interactions between European nations and the societies they colonized in the modern period.

As a subject, post-colonial studies stands at the intersection of debates about race, colonialism, gender, politics and language. In the language of post-colonial studies, some words are new, whereas others are familiar and are charged with new significance.Explaining what post-colonialism actually is, where it is encountered and why it is crucial in forging new cultural identities, this clearly presented text provides essential information in understanding the issues that characterise the area.

1. Post-colonialism in general

1.1 Definition
Post-colonialism is an intellectual direction (sometimes also called an “era” or the “post-colonial theory”) that exists since around the middle of the 20^th century. It developed from and mainly refers to the time after colonialism. The post-colonial direction was created as colonial countries became independent. Nowadays, aspects of post-colonialism can be found not only in sciences concerning history, literature and politics, but also in approach to culture and identity of both the countries that were colonised and the former colonial powers.
1.2 Development
The term “decolonisation” seems to be of particular importance while talking about post-colonialism. In this case it means an intellectual process that persistently transfers the independence of former-colonial countries into people’s minds. The basic idea of this process is the deconstruction of old-fashioned perceptions and attitudes of power and oppression that were adopted during the time of colonialism.

A major aspect of post-colonialism is the rather violent-like, unbuffered contact or clash of cultures as an inevitable result of former colonial times; the relationship of the colonial power to the (formerly) colonised country, its population and culture and vice versa seems extremely ambiguous and contradictory.
This contradiction of two clashing cultures and the wide scale of problems resulting from it must be regarded as a major theme in post-colonialism: For centuries the colonial suppressor often had been forcing his civilised values on the natives.

2. The post-colonial experience in India
2.1 History of Indian colonialism
In the 16^th century, European powers began to conquer small outposts along the Indian coast. Portugal, the Netherlands and France ruled different regions in India before the “British East India Company” was founded in 1756.
The British colonialists managed to control most parts of India while ruling the key cities Calcutta, Madras and Bombay as the main British bases. However, there still remained a few independent regions (Kashmir among others) whose lords were loyal to the British Empire.In 1857, the first big rebellion took place in the north of India. The incident is also named “First war of Indian Independence”,This was the first time Indians rebelled in massive numbers against the presence and the rule of the British in South Asia. The rebellion failed and the British colonialists continued their rule.The non-violent resistance against British colonial rule, mainly initiated and organised by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, finally lead to independence in 1947.India became a member of the British Commonwealth after 1947.
Post colonanl theory:

1. Leadership
   
2. Subjectivity
   
3. nation and nationality
   
4. power
   
5. Race
   
6. Identity
   Post colonial Theorist
   

• Homi K. Bhabha
  
• Chinua Achebe

• David Brooks

• Amilcar Cabral

• Partha Chatterjee
  
• Frantz Fanon
  

• Hubert Harrison

• George Orwell
  

• Salman Rushdie

• Edward Said

• Gayatri Chakraborti Spivak
  

Bhabha's Nation and Narration (1990) is primarily an intervention into "essentialist" readings of nationality that attempt to define and naturalize Third World "nations" by means of the supposedly homogenous, innate, and historically continuous traditions that falsely define and ensure their subordinate status. Nations, in other words, are "narrative" constructions that arise from the "hybrid" interaction of contending cultural constituencies. In The Location of Culture, Bhabha extends his explanation of the "liminal" or "interstitial" category that occupies a space "between" competing cultural traditions, historical periods, and critical methodologies. Again utilizing a complex criteria of semiotics and psychoanalysis, Bhabha examines the "ambivalence of colonial rule" and suggests that it enables a capacity for resistance in the performative "mimicry" of the "English book."
The idea of having an empire is very important, and that is the central feature that I am interested in. All kinds of preparations are made for this idea within a culture and then, in turn and in time, imperialism acquires a kind of coherence, a set of experiences and a presence of ruler and ruled alike within the culture. The development of Said’s ideas about literature and art paralleled those of the field of post-colonial criticism as a whole. It began in anger – Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, Malcolm X. And it has ended up in a rather different place, embraced in the very academic settings that once might have laughed at the very notion of a canonical body of, say, African Literature.
Postcolonial theory studies the power and the continued dominance of Western ways of knowing, of intellectual enquiry. The work of Edward Said in the book Orientalism conceptually addresses the oppressed subaltern man and woman, to explain how the Eurocentric perspective of Orientalism produced the foundations — and the justifications — for the domination of the Other, by means of colonialism.
Importance of Post Colonial Studies;
if we talk about relevence or impotancreof Post colonial studies than yes it is, because colonies are the past of many parts of world and of many countries. Though it is glorious past for England and other colonisers but not for those countries who are colonised. The Colonaised countries gave great fight for their freedom and for that they studied it. The other reason for studing the post colconialism is about inventions and new ideas like in this 20^th century ,in the post Colonial era mankind give their bet to world like indusrialism and technology etc.this may effect of post colonialism. It is not that on should stidies post colonialism for criticise , colonialism have their dark and bright side both like colonaisers give their best architecture to the colonised countries and also a new calture as well. So on the my side post colonial studies are as important as any other studies.
The reservations and debates, research in Postcolonial Studies has increasing alot because postcolonial critique allows for a wide-ranging investigation into power relations in various contexts. The formation of empire, the impact of colonization on postcolonial history, economy, science, and culture, the cultural productions of colonized societies, feminism and postcolonialism, agency for marginalized people, and the state of the postcolony in contemporary economic and cultural contexts, capitalism and the market, environmental concerns, and the relationship between aesthetics and politics in literature  are some of the more prominent topics in the field.

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Romantic Literature

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Name:  Gohil Beenaba S
Paper: Romantic Literatute
Roll no: 13
Subject: Study of major Romantic poets
Submitted to: M.K. Bhavnagar Univeraity, Dept.of English


































          Romantic era was an artistic,literay and intelactual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century and most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Romanticism was characterised  by is emphosis on emotion and individalism as well as glorification of all past and nature, the latter also being celebrated. It is a partly a reaction to the  industrial revolution.

List  of major Romantic poets:-
1. William Wordsworth
2. Samuel Tailor oleridge
3. P B Shelly
4. Lord Byron
5. William Black
6. John Keats

(1) William Wordsworth;
       William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, before which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
 Major Works:
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798)
Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
"Strange fits of passion have I known"
"She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways"
"Three years she grew"
"A Slumber Did my Spirit Seal"
"I travelled among unknown men"
"Lucy Gray"
"The Two April Mornings"
"Solitary Reaper"
"Nutting"
"The Ruined Cottage"
"Michael"
"The Kitten At Play"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
        Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence on Emerson and American transcendentalism.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,
 Christabel,
Kubla Khan
  John Keats
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work having been in publication for only four years before his death.
Although his poems were not generally well received by critics during his lifetime, his reputation grew after his death, and by the end of the 19th century, he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets. He had a significant influence on a diverse range of poets and writers. Jorge Luis Borges stated that his first encounter with Keats was the most significant literary experience of his life.The poetry of Keats is characterised by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. This is typical of romantic poets, as they aimed to accentuate extreme emotion through the emphasis of natural imagery. Today his poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analysed in English literature.
           Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to Psyche
To Autumn
Ode on Melancholy
Ode on Indolence

Lord byron:
George Gordon Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among Byron's best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty".
Byron is regarded as one of the greatest British poets, and remains widely read and influential. He travelled widely across Europe, especially in Italy where he lived for seven years. Later in life, Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire, for which many Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died one year later at age 36 from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi. Often described as the most flamboyant and notorious of the major Romantics, Byron was both celebrated and castigated in life for his aristocratic excesses, including huge debts, numerous love affairs with men as well as women, rumours of a scandalous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile.
The Lament of Tasso (1817)
The Prophecy of Dante (1819)
The Vision of Judgment (1821)
Heaven and Earth (1821)
Werner (1822)
The Age of Bronze (1823)
The Island (1823) (text on Wikisource)
The Deformed Transformed (1824)
 Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley ( 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not see fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron; Leigh Hunt; Thomas Love Peacock; and his own second wife, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Shelley's close circle of friends included some of the most important progressive thinkers of the day, including his father-in-law, the philosopher William Godwin and Leigh Hunt. Though Shelley's poetry and prose output remained steady throughout his life, most publishers and journals declined to publish his work for fear of being arrested for either blasphemy or sedition. Shelley's poetry sometimes had only an underground readership during his day, but his poetic achievements are widely recognized today, and his advanced political and social thought impacted the Chartist and other movements in England, and reach down to the present day. Shelley's theories of economics and morality, for example, had a profound influence on Karl Marx; his early—perhaps first—writings on nonviolent resistance influenced both Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi.
 Major Works:
Ozymandias,
Ode to the West Wind,
To a Skylark,
Music,
 When Soft Voices Die,
The Cloud
 The Masque of Anarchy.
 
      As we have seen, poetry can creatively be used an outlet for expression which poets often use different mechanisms to help strengthen their thoughts.As this assignment proves, poetry can be a very interesting and powerful mechanism for expression.  However, with the many dimensions of poetry it can also be rather intimidating sometimes. Yet, as we have learned it can be very helpful to know the background information of the work as well as being familiar with different styles and forms.










     

Name: Gohil Beenaba S

Paper: Romantic Literatute

Roll no: 13

Subject: Study of major Romantic poets

Submitted to: M.K. Bhavnagar Univeraity, Dept.of English

Romantic era was an artistic,literay and intelactual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18^th century and most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Romanticism was characterised by is emphosis on emotion and individalism as well as glorification of all past and nature, the latter also being celebrated. It is a partly a reaction to the industrial revolution.

List of major Romantic poets:-

1. William Wordsworth
2. Samuel Tailor oleridge
3. P B Shelly
4. Lord Byron
5. William Black
6. John Keats

(1) William Wordsworth;

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, before which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
Major Works:
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798)
Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

• "Strange fits of passion have I known"
• "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways"
• "Three years she grew"
• "A Slumber Did my Spirit Seal"
• "I travelled among unknown men"
• "Lucy Gray"
• "The Two April Mornings"
• "Solitary Reaper"
• "Nutting"
• "The Ruined Cottage"
• "Michael"
• "The Kitten At Play"
  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence on Emerson and American transcendentalism.

• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,
  
• Christabel,
  
• Kubla Khan
  John Keats
  John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work having been in publication for only four years before his death.
  

Although his poems were not generally well received by critics during his lifetime, his reputation grew after his death, and by the end of the 19th century, he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets. He had a significant influence on a diverse range of poets and writers. Jorge Luis Borges stated that his first encounter with Keats was the most significant literary experience of his life.The poetry of Keats is characterised by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. This is typical of romantic poets, as they aimed to accentuate extreme emotion through the emphasis of natural imagery. Today his poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analysed in English literature.
Ode to a Nightingale

• Ode on a Grecian Urn
• Ode to Psyche
• To Autumn
• Ode on Melancholy
• Ode on Indolence
  

Lord byron:

George Gordon Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among Byron's best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty".
Byron is regarded as one of the greatest British poets, and remains widely read and influential. He travelled widely across Europe, especially in Italy where he lived for seven years. Later in life, Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire, for which many Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died one year later at age 36 from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi. Often described as the most flamboyant and notorious of the major Romantics, Byron was both celebrated and castigated in life for his aristocratic excesses, including huge debts, numerous love affairs with men as well as women, rumours of a scandalous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile.
The Lament of Tasso (1817)
The Prophecy of Dante (1819)
The Vision of Judgment (1821)

• Heaven and Earth (1821)

• Werner (1822)

• The Age of Bronze (1823)

• The Island (1823) (text on Wikisource)

• The Deformed Transformed (1824)
  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Percy Bysshe Shelley ( 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not see fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron; Leigh Hunt; Thomas Love Peacock; and his own second wife, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Shelley's close circle of friends included some of the most important progressive thinkers of the day, including his father-in-law, the philosopher William Godwin and Leigh Hunt. Though Shelley's poetry and prose output remained steady throughout his life, most publishers and journals declined to publish his work for fear of being arrested for either blasphemy or sedition. Shelley's poetry sometimes had only an underground readership during his day, but his poetic achievements are widely recognized today, and his advanced political and social thought impacted the Chartist and other movements in England, and reach down to the present day. Shelley's theories of economics and morality, for example, had a profound influence on Karl Marx; his early—perhaps first—writings on nonviolent resistance influenced both Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi.
  Major Works:
  
• Ozymandias,
  
• Ode to the West Wind,
  
• To a Skylark,
  
• Music,
  
• When Soft Voices Die,
  
• The Cloud
  
• The Masque of Anarchy.
  
  As we have seen, poetry can creatively be used an outlet for expression which poets often use different mechanisms to help strengthen their thoughts.As this assignment proves, poetry can be a very interesting and powerful mechanism for expression.  However, with the many dimensions of poetry it can also be rather intimidating sometimes. Yet, as we have learned it can be very helpful to know the background information of the work as well as being familiar with different styles and forms.
  

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