Romanticism Assignment Choices due by Tues., Nov. 7 Presentations: Thursday, November 16 (Ex-Day)
To better explore the Era of Romanticism, you are each going to research a work of Romantic art, music, or literature and present it to the class. For your presentation you will need to do the following:
1) Connect the piece of art to the elements of Romanticism that we’ve discussed. You must give specific examples from your work to support the points you make. 2) Explain how your work relates to the historical themes we’ve been discussing. You must give specific examples from your work to support the points you make. As you make this explanation, you should also analyze the usefulness of this work to a historian studying this period of history. 4) Tell us about anything else of interest you learn about the piece.
Rubric Possible Points You connect your piece of art to elements of Romanticism with specific 30 examples from your work. You connect your piece of art to historical themes and analyze the 20 usefulness of it to historians with specific examples from your work.. You tell us about what is useful and interesting about your piece of art 10 Total 60
Plan for about five minutes for your presentation.
If there is some other work of Romanticism that you would like to present that is not on this list, just let me know. I would like your choice to focus on the first half of the 19th century and not a later Romantic figure. You can also do any other work by one of these people. You are on your honor not to choose a work that you have covered in another class.
By Tuesday, November 7, give me a list of your top five choices for your presentation. Your choices must come from at least two disciplines. I will do my best to make sure everyone gets one of those choices. Please do not choose one of the works discussed in any of your other classes.
Literature For selections that are too long for us to read the entire thing, please select an excerpt and e-mail it to me so that I can copy it for the class.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake The Lamb by William Blake Visions of the Daughters of Albion by William Blake To a Mouse: On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough by Robert Burns Don Juan by Lord Byron The Isles of Greece by Lord Byron She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron So, we’ll go no more a roving by Lord Byron On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year by Lord Byron Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Near His Beloved by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Silesian Weavers, by Heinrich Heine Endymion by John Keats La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats Ode on Melancholy by John Keats On first looking into Chapman’s Homer by John Keats Death of the Poet by Mikhail Lermontov Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin The Bronze Horseman by Aleksandr Pushkin Ode to Joy by Friedrich Schiller The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Adonaïs:An Elegy on the Death of John Keats by Percy Bysshe Shelley To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Masque of Anarchy by Percy Bysshe Shelley A Song: “Men of England” by Percy Bysshe Shelley Lines written above Tintern Abbey, by William Wordsworth Michael: A Pastoral Poem by William Wordsworth Daffodils or I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth We Are Seven by William Wordsworth Ode: Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth
Music Pick out an excerpt from the music to play for the class. You should be able to find them on the internet. Before your presentation, email me the clip and know at which point you want to begin.
Eroica Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven Fifth Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven The Ninth Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz Étude Op. 10, No. 12 “The Revolutionary Étude” by Frédéric Chopin Piano sonata No. 2 by Frédéric Chopin Symphony No. 3 “The Scottish Symphony” by Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 “Italian Symphony” by Felix Mendelssohn Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Op. 61) By Felix Mendelssohn William Tell Overture by Gioachino Rossini Piano concerto in A Minor by Robert Schumann Piano Concerto in C Major by Robert Schumann Trout Piano Quintet by Franz Schubert The Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert Prelude to Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner
Art I will have the piece on a PowerPoint ready for you. If you want anything else, let me know.
The Spiritual Form of Nelson Guiding Leviathan by William Blake The Hay Wain by John Constable Stonehenge by John Constable Massacre at Chios by Eugène Delacroix Death of Sardanapalus by Eugène Delacroix Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi by Eugène Delacroix The Monk by the Sea by Caspar David Friedrich, 1808-1810 Two Men Contemplating the Moon Caspar David Friedrich, 1809 – 1810 The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters Francisco Goya The Great Day of His Wrath by John Martin Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion by John Martin The Slave Ship or Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying – Typhoon coming on by JMW Turner Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway by JMW Turner The Fighting Téméraire Tugged to Her Last Berth To Be Broken by JMW Turner