romanticism poetry

elegy written in a country churchyard

• found his subject matter in nature and the country
• considered a pre-romantic
• went to eton college
• friends with Harrace Wallace

• the lamb
• the little boy lost and found
• the tyger
• the fly
• the sick rose

• jesus is the lamb
• represents calm, passive, meek

• aggresive vs nonaggresive
• shows that God makes everyone, both, even things from opposite ends

• the boy died
• God is the father and he takes him to heaven
• **treats kids well

• the lamb
• little boy lost
• little boy found

• the tyger
• the fly
• the sick rose

• counterpart of lamb
• *God makes all creatures
• symbol of aggression

• compares self to fly
• life is like a fly, disgusting
• counter part to the little boy lost

beautiful things that get eaten away

• artist- did woodcuts and paintings
• parents recognized him as a child prodigy
• religous man
• married to catherine boucher

• songs of innocence
• songs of experiance

• had his own
• consisted of energy; 2 forces w/ aggression

Alloway in Ayshire to a poor, farmers family

• was a tax collector
• poetry was written in scot's dialect

robert burn's wife

rheumatic fever

• john anderson
• auld lang syne
• to a mouse
• to a louse

• all poems are written in ballad form
• **can be sung

Man and woman have spent their entire life together and that they are nearing the end, so they will go (die) hand and hand together

long time passed

• the winter is coming and the mouse's home is destoyed by the farmers
• you can plan all you want, but things still get screwed up
• **al he's gotta worry about is food, but human has to worry about future

see ourselves as others see us