unit 6:step 2

1. The chimney sweeper(song of innocence)
- it talks about how this little chimney sweep named tom, and how when he was a small child , to small to even cry, he mother had died. When his mother had died his dad decided to sell him to be a chimney sweeper. after his dad sold him , he cry like everynight until he had a dream about his mom who told him to happy because soon he would be with her. when he woke up , he was happy , because he had a happy thought to return to when he felt sad.
  The Chimney Sweeper(Song of Experience)
- this poem is talking about a different chimney sweeper. it starts off by a stranger asking the little chimney sweep, why he iz crying and where are his parents, the little chimney sweep replies by saying that his parent are at church praying for him even though his parent well the one to sell them into this horrible life.while his parent at church also praying to the god that cause so much misery upon him. he tell the stranger that just because he does act as if he is happy , and because dance , and sing.  to me the people in this time didn't really pay attention to their kids. they were really just about looks , and how to get ahead.

2. William Wordsworth
(Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known)
- This is strange , and interesting at the same time , it talks about William riding out in the middle of a moonlit night going toward his Lucy. as he rides he is imagining his Lucy and the way he longed for her and the way she  was like " fresh as a rose in June" , as he rides he starts to closer and closer to her , and as he does this he imagination gets wilder. as he goes on he talks about how he feels about her when they are in their meadow, and how he has dream of this many night , but as so many thought run through his head , something just ridiculous pops into his head, that what if he gets there , and she is dead. to me it is a representation of Romanticism because he shows so much emotion in his poem. he express so much  emotion towards his Lucy

3. Lord Byron/George Gordon
(She Walks in Beauty)
- This poem is describing Lord Byron watching a beautiful woman, who is beyond comparison. although he notices her beauty and the softness of her face he can still see she is sadden. For example, Lord Byron uses many naturalist themes in his description of the girl. Take for example the line, " She walks in beauty like the night"  he compares her beauty to the night, and in the next line he compares her to starry skies, he is using beautiful elements of nature to describe the appearance of the girl. another example of Romanticism Lord Byron's ability to use words of his time in his poem to describe this woman so eloquently. one more element , is that one can tell through his words the great emotion and powerful feelings.

4. Percy Shelley
(England in 1819)
The poem is an outcry for how the English govt. had been operating . Shelly shared many of the same feeling of fury and anger that much of other Englishmen towards Parliament. as well as a outcry, the poem is also a description of the massacre that had occured in 1819. this poem is a good example of romantic poetry because Shelley uses powerful words to describe the change that he felt was needed for the British govt. we can see how strongly Shelley feels about the current regime in England. Some examples of strong language he uses are " despised, scorn , muddy, starved, stabbed, blood, liberticide, godless, Christless, graves, phantom, slay, and tempestuous. all these words provide emotion and set the tone for how the poem reads.

5. John Keats
(When I Have Fears)
The poem itself describes a moment that everyone has at some piont in their life. This moment is the fear of knowing that at any possible second you could die. As keats comtemples that fact, he relizes he had never loved another. He has never experienced that wonderful moment of loving another with your whole heart and asking nothing in return. He starts to wonder what if he dies without knowing love, feeling love , and haveing it as his own. The subject matter is about love. The emotion of dying is what triggers this fear of not having loved before dying. A good example of this being a romanticism poem is the line where Keats says " then on the shore  of the wide world i stand alone and think till love and fame to nothingness do sink." He uses naturalistc images such as the shore and wide world to describe the empiness of not haveing loved.