Meet the English Romantics: Great British Poets of the 18th & 19th Centuries
Dana Lorelle, Writing, Vocabulary, Essays
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Take a walk around the Lake District with the Big Six of English Romantic poetry: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats!
Class experience
US Grade 7 - 10
English poetry in the late 18th and early 19th centuries began to change rapidly, fitting human emotion -- filtered through nature -- into verse. William Blake claimed that "a new heaven has begun," and Samuel Taylor Coleridge called this new style “the mediatress between, and reconciler of nature and man.” Today, we know it as Romanticism: the literary reaction against Neo-Classicism, in which emotion, imagination, and spontaneity formed the pillars of poetry. This three-week class will...
Students can expect to become familiar with the following terms: stanza, rhyme scheme, sonnet, couplet, onomatopoeia, metaphor, simile, alliteration, consonance, assonance, symbolism, personification, and many more. Students will also gain insight into the literary period of English Romanticism and into the biographic details of all six poets.
My passions are writing and poetry, and it's my great joy that my five kids can quote Shakespeare and Longfellow. So many students claim to "hate" poetry, but that's often because poetry is difficult to understand. My goal is to give students the tools they need to unlock poems. Like John Keats suddenly understanding Homer once he read the English translation, I want my students to look "...at each other with a wild surmise/ Silent, upon a peak in Darien."
Homework Offered
Each week, students are expected to read a selection of poems and respond to a prompt in the classroom.Assessments Offered
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1 file available upon enrollmentStudents are provided with a list of poems for each week.
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
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***Use coupon code LORELLE20245 for $5 off any class.*** Welcome! I'm here because I love writing, reading, and teaching, and through Outschool I'm able to blend all three. I offer classes in writing and literature analysis (especially poetry),...
Group Class
$45
for 3 classes1x per week, 3 weeks
55 min
Completed by 23 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 12-16
3-9 learners per class
