A few words on "The Novel of Manners"

"The form developed some specific conventions in the 19th century. First, the protagonist is usually a single woman looking to get married. Second, socio-economic class must be a factor in determining whom the woman will marry. Third, the novel must include many scenes that portray the proper and improper way to act within high society, and also outline differences and relations between classes. And finally, the novel of manners usually ends with either the marriage or death of the female protagonist"

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See also post in Ludus on the subject + Fields of Vision

Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart

Illustration: Harry Clarke, 1919
I have chosen three different aspects for your analysis of the short story:
- Narration and language
- Symbols and sounds
- Narrator and madness (+ the old man)

In your groups, you've worked on these aspects and the way in which they support, elaborate and exemplify our very broad hypothesis: A WEIRD MIND.

Please post notes and quotes from your group as comments below. They are for your fellow students and for you to use when you work together with another group who has worked on the same aspects.

If you find that something is missing from any of the notes, feel free to add you own ideas or ask questions to the group

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright ~ poem reading with text

Here you find an analysis of the poem :) Knock yourselves out, but make sure you UNDERSTAND!

The Lamb by William Blake ~ poem with Text

Here you find a good analysis of the poem. Use it - you may agree or disagree, but make sure you UNDERSTAND!

William Blake

Explain the quotes below:

Group 1:

1.      The tyger’s wrath is wiser than the horses of instruction

2.      Without contrasts is no progression

3.      Religion, politics and industrialism are “dark Satanic Mills”

Group 2:

       4.      Prisons are built with stones of law, Brothels with bricks of religion

5.      Active Evil is better than Passive Good

6.      The two contrary states of the human soul (“Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience”)

My iambic poem

Write a poem in four lines about Romanticism. You must write in iambs.

Wordsworth: The Tables Turned

Wordsworth wrote in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads, the collection of poems in which The Tables Turned first appeared: "There will also be found in these volumes little of what is usually called poetic diction; I have taken as much pains to avoid it as others ordinarily take to produce it; this I have done (...) to bring my language near to the language of men (...)"

Does Wordsworth reach his goal of writing in the language of med in this poem? Explain and exemplify, please!

William Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Upload your Photo Story to the conference in Ludus. Write here:

1. Why did you pick the lines you picked?
2. What aspects of the poem did you consider in your choice of pictures?
3. How did you manage to convey the Romantic conventions of poetic language?