Mary Shelley's Frankenstein;

or The Modern Prometheus

"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay

To mould me man? Did I solicit thee

From darkness to promote me?"

from Paradise Lost

"Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou

in this pride of wisdom!"

Snowflake

Perfect

drifts

down

To vanish on the tip of your tongue

without a trace

Edie Wu 2008

In a Station of the Metro

The apparition of these faces in a crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough.

~ Ezra Pound

Imagism

Period: 1912-1917

Poets: Pound, T. S. Eliot, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle),

Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams,

Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens

Imagists' manifesto - "Make it new!"

Key features: employing "the exact word, not merely the decorative word"

the language of everyday speech

images that capture "an intellectual and emotional complex in

an instant of time" (Pound)

Assignment ~ Imitation of Imagism - poem and illustration

Welcome!

Romantica was created mainly for students in my AP English IV classes as a forum for sharing information on the course and also to provide the opportunity for posting comments on readings and assignments as they arise. As the blog title suggests, elements of Romanticism emerge in most of the literature we will cover this year; however, we will also be exploring the characteristics and influence of Realism, Existentialism, Modernism and Post-Modernism.

I look forward to sharing this literary journey with you.

The everlasting universe of things

Flows through the mind...

My own, my human mind,

which passively now renders

and receives fast influencings,

Holding an unremitting interchange

With the clear universe of things around...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A magical combination: the Hubble Telescope and John Lennon. Enjoy!