Week 3 Discussion - Romantic Module Connections by Molly Marceau Wooten https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR en-us 2022-03-04 12:22:01 UTC 2025-10-11 16:01:08 UTC hello@padlet.com Anna Letitia Barbauld mollymarceau https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805433 2022-03-04 12:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805433 Charlotte Smith mollymarceau https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805434 2022-03-04 12:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805434 Lord Byron mollymarceau https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805435 2022-03-04 12:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805435 Mary Prince mollymarceau https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805436 2022-03-04 12:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805436 Mary Shelley mollymarceau https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805437 2022-03-04 12:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805437 Mary Wollstonecraft mollymarceau https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805438 2022-03-04 12:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805438 Percy Shelley mollymarceau https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805439 2022-03-04 12:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805439 Samuel Taylor Coleridge mollymarceau https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805440 2022-03-04 12:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805440 William Blake mollymarceau https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805441 2022-03-04 12:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805441 William Wordsworth mollymarceau https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805442 2022-03-04 12:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805442 John Keats mollymarceau https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805443 2022-03-04 12:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805443 SAMPLE CONNECTION Zora Neale Hurston mollymarceau https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805444 Zora Neale Hurston and Kate Chopin both use vernacular in their fiction https://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/powerprose/hurston/ and https://lsaw.lib.lehigh.edu/index.php/williams/article/view/35/21 (KSB)]]> 2022-03-04 12:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805444 SAMPLE CONNECTION Kate Chopin mollymarceau https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805445 2022-03-04 12:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2077805445 https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2105303817 My post pertains to my connection of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Mary Wollstonecraft was Mary Shelley’s mother, and wrote extensively on the harmful stigmas which surrounded women. Many females helped perpetuate these stigmas, which inspired Wollstonecraft’s belief that women should not fall into complacency simply because it was convenient and expected. I wonder if Wollstonecraft’s theories on dependence could have applied to Mary Shelley, who had a sometimes unhappy relationship with Percy Shelley. Might Mary Shelley have left her husband if she’d had financial stability of her own? https://www.bartleby.com/144/103.html https://www.biography.com/writer/mary-shelley (RM)]]> 2022-03-21 13:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2105303817 https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2105332974 My post pertains to my connection of John Keats and Lord Byron. Both poets often wrote about love, but where Lord Byron focused on physical beauty, such as in his amorous poem “She Walks in Beauty”, John Keats often focused on the beauty of nature, and the bitterness in farewells. In John Keats’ poem “Ode on Melancholy”, the poet may be saying that he must treasure the time he has left with the places and/or people he loves, and must cherish every moment. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43844/she-walks-in-beauty https://poets.org/poem/ode-melancholy (RM)]]> 2022-03-21 13:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2105332974 Wordsworth and Coleridge https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2108171023 William Wordsworth was a close friend and colleague of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who worked with him to create Lyrical Ballads in 1798, a collection of short poems by the two men. Each poet made major contributions to the Romantic Period, with Wordsworth being known for his beautiful imagery and power to evoke strong emotions in the reader. Similarly, Coleridge's work also embodied qualities of Romantic poetry, while he also produced significant literary criticism. 
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Taylor-Coleridge
https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Wordsworth (IW)]]> 2022-03-22 18:29:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2108171023 Charlotte Smith and Anna Laetitia Barbara https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2108237291 Both Charlotte Smith and Anna Laetitia Barbara defied the societal expectations of their time. After authoring her first collection in prison, Charlotte Smith used her popularity to fight for women's rights, and left her husband to support her 13 children with her own work, which was unheard of in the 18th century. Similarly, Anna Laetitia Barbara was an outspoken literary critic, publishing everything from poetry to children's books. 
https://mypoeticside.com/poets/charlotte-smith-poems
https://mypoeticside.com/poets/anna-laetitia-barbauld-poems (IW)]]> 2022-03-22 19:08:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2108237291 Mary Prince and John Keats https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2108264000 John Keats and Mary Prince both make use of a first person narrative in their writing. While the two have very different styles, John Keats' "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be" employs Romantic elements to spark emotion and feeling in the same way that Mary Prince's personal slave narrative elicits strong reactions from readers. 
https://poets.org/poem/when-i-have-fears-i-may-cease-be
https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/prince/prince.html
(IW)]]> 2022-03-22 19:25:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2108264000 Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley tillinghastw0392 https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2108370347 These two were married but they had a very rocky marriage. Percy was already married before he ran off with Mary. They struggle with money for a long time and lost their first child after only a few days. However, they big connection between the two is that the novel "Frankenstein", which was published anonymously, was orginally thought to be written by Percy, but it was later discovered that this game-changing novel was written by Mary Shelley instead. (WT) 
https://www.biography.com/writer/mary-shelley#:~:text=In%201814%2C%20Mary%20began%20a,England%20together%20that%20same%20year.]]> 2022-03-22 20:46:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2108370347 Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Mary Wollstonecraft tillinghastw0392 https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2108389593 Both of these women were very successful but both of them had very different ideas on what role women played in society. When Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Anna Laetitia Barbauld published a peom called "The Rights of Women". This poem was a very obvious and anit-feminist response to Mary Wollstonecraft's work. Barbauld clearly didn't like women, like Wollstonecraft, who very openly expressed their political ideas. (WT)
https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/poetry/the-rights-of-women-poem ]]> 2022-03-22 21:02:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2108389593 Mary Shelley and Lord Byron https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2109739785 Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and a group of others were staying in a villa together. To entertain themselves, they began sharing ghost stories. Later, this turned into a challenge of who could write the best horror story. This led to the start of Shelley's Frankenstein and 
Byron's poem "The Darkness." Without the influence of the other, both of these works of literature may never have been created. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/28063/how-friendly-writing-contest-resulted-three-literary-classics (EMH)]]> 2022-03-23 13:45:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2109739785 Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Smith https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2110972876 Mary Wollstonecraft is best known for her feminist novel in which she writes that women should be given the right to make their own living and support themselves. At the age of 19 Wollstonecraft opens a school with her sister, then becomes a governess and later works as a translator and literary advisor. Similarly, Charlotte Smith leaves her husband, moves to France and writes to support herself and her children. Both of these women defied the societal expectations of a 'woman's place' in the 19th century.
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/mary-wollstonecraft-a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-woman
https://mypoeticside.com/poets/charlotte-smith-poems
(HK)]]> 2022-03-24 02:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2110972876 William Blake and William Wordsworth khanh2494 https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2111004073 Both Blake and Wordsworth lost a brother they were very close to. In both circumstances it heavily influenced their careers. Blake believed his brother's spirit lived with him and claimed he instructed him on how to make the illustrations for his poems. While Wordsworth's writing changed to be more solemn and elevated. His next poem expressed that he had lost the ability to see the light in life that he once did. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-blake https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Wordsworth
(HK)]]> 2022-03-24 03:07:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2111004073 Wordsworth and Coleridge https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2111063058 William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge had a working relationship and worked on various projects and ballads together. These ballads marked the beginning of the Romantic English period of writing. After a while, Wordsworth and Coleridge grew apart and took on their own separate journeys. Similar to them Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley had an actual relationship and were married. Percy and Mary did not necessarily work together on their literature, but they did play off of each other with ideas. Though the both relationships are very different, they are also similar because of the hard work they put into their writings and pieces as teams. (HB) 
Citations: (https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/books/15eder.html). 
(https://www.biography.com/writer/mary-shelley).]]> 2022-03-24 03:51:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2111063058 Lord Byron and Percy Shelley spencerj0219 https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112121864 In the early stages of Byron's writing career he meet with Percy and his wife Mary. Mary has a sister named Claire that Byron got attached to and an affair with that ended in her getting pregnant. As they all got closer to each other they began to help each other with a wide variety of ideas to which they could make stories about, this helped them progress a lot in their writing journeys due to the fact that it wasn't just them writing the stories, it was a group project. These two men were two of the best writers of their time, they were very good partners. (JBS)]]> 2022-03-24 15:33:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112121864 John Keats and Percy Shelley spencerj0219 https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112153999 Keats and Shelley were both very harsh towards each others work, they were for sure not classified as friends. These two didn't get along very well because they both had different mindsets when it came to poetry. Shelley was into politics and philosophy while Keats was into unobtrusive poetry. Although these two were not very close Shelley still made an elegy in honor of Keats and his work. (JBS)]]> 2022-03-24 15:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112153999 Charlotte Smith & William Wordsworth lackeyb1497 https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112230540 Charlotte Smith, accredited as the earliest Romantic poet, influenced those who followed her; including William Wordsworth who helped catalyze the English Romantic Movement. I wonder how the Romantic movement might have looked different if Charlotte Smith didn't write about the sublime and nature: Could the whole movement have looked entirely different, or never existed at all? (Source for Charlotte Smith above)(https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Wordsworth(https://mypoeticside.com/poets/charlotte-smith-poems) (BL)]]> 2022-03-24 16:28:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112230540 John Keats & William Wordsworth lackeyb1497 https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112246517 Both Keats and Wordsworth lost both parents at young ages: Keats losing his father at age 8 and mother at age 14. Wordsworth lost his mother at 7, and his father at 13. We discussed how Keats' poem "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be," was probably influenced by the loss of his parents at an early age. I feel that this also could have influenced William Wordsworth's work as well. 
(https://poets.org/poet/john-keats)
(https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Wordsworth) (BL)]]> 2022-03-24 16:36:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112246517 Lord Byron and John Keats https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112272762 I don't think anyone said this but it is hard to tell. Not only were there poems different, Lord Byron and John Keats had a rivalry and dislike between one another. The main difference between the two was that Byron was a "more elite" poet during this time and saw himself above Keats because Keats was a middle class man with little money. Byron was praised for his poetry and didn't like Keats poetry, he described him as a "Cockney" poet. Keats became jealous of Byron and believed the only reason Byron succeeded was because he was a wealthy aristocrat. https://englishhistory.net/keats/lord-byron-john-keats-rivalry/
(AL)]]> 2022-03-24 16:50:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112272762 Percy Shelley and William Wordsworth https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112300875 Shelley and Wordsworth were friends during this period, but Shelley had dislikes about Wordsworths work. Shelley made a poem about Wordsworth attacking him as a poet. The poem was called "To Wordsworth". Shelley portrays through this poem that Wordsworth lost his ability to communicate to his community through poetry. Shelley writes, "Thus having been, than thou shouldst, cease to be", meaning that Shelley believed Wordsworth should be writing poetry at all because it could've been better than having that talent and then losing it. https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Rift-Between-Wordsworth-and-Shelley
(AL)]]> 2022-03-24 17:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112300875 Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth ellieolik https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112332958 Coleridge and Wordsworth met in 1795 and began a friendship that had a huge impact on the English Romantic Period. Despite working together to create the groundbreaking Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge and Wordsworth had very different approaches to poetry. Coleridge believed the passion and feelings of poetry should be expressed through the poet, while Wordsworth often employed ventriloquism and transferred those passions and feelings to the characters in the poem. This was a major source of contrition between the two and resulted in an unfinished collaboration of 'The Three Graves’. Coleridge and Wordsworth would argue over which method was better but were never able to reach an agreement. Would either poet have held such strong opinions on the matter had they not been challenged? I wonder if their friendship, and the need of each man to ‘prove’ his style was superior, while disastrous for later collaborations, may have encouraged each author to become a stronger poet in his own right. 

 https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/the-conflict/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Taylor-Coleridge
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]]> 2022-03-24 17:24:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112332958 Charlotte Smith and Mary Shelley ellieolik https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112364182 Charlotte Smith and Mary Shelley both suffered traumatic pasts marked by losing their mothers (Shelley at birth and Smith as a young child), rocky marital relationships beginning as teenagers, and the loss of a child. Both women were pioneers, Charlotte as the first romantic poet, and Shelley as an influential author of horror and science fiction. Both women had difficult home lives and I wonder if this encouraged them to escape into their imaginations in order to relieve some of the pain of their realities. 
https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-25790
https://www.biography.com/writer/mary-shelley (EK)]]> 2022-03-24 17:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112364182 Charlotte Smith and William Blake vorem1112 https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112415230 Both poets used their craft to educate the public about the world around them, they would both reveal events and holes in society, typically aimed around the church, the slave trade, and the industrial revolution.
https://www.bartleby.com/essay/Compare-And-Contrast-William-Blake-And-Charlotte-FYPW9WB6QQ6

(MV)]]> 2022-03-24 18:10:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112415230 Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Anna Letitia Barbauld vorem1112 https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112425881 Anna Laetitia Barbauld wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge a poetic letter after they met in Auguest, 1797. The poem deeply admired Coleridge's work as Barbauld admired him. Barbauld would go on to continue writing and take inspiration from Coleridge, using his philosphies in a feminized fasion. 
http://goosebump-poetry.blogspot.com/2016/12/anna-laetitia-barbauld-to-mr-coleridge.html 

(MV)]]> 2022-03-24 18:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112425881 Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112450325 According to this TIME article, Wollstonecraft is the mother of Shelley. She did not have the chance to live to see Shelley become a writer as she died just a week after her birth. Despite this, she was a major inspiration for her daughter who followed in her footsteps as a writer. In fact, Shelley's father taught her how to read by tracing the letter on her mother's gravestone. Her mother's grave became a safe space for her and was even the first place she confessed her love for Percy Shelley.
https://time.com/5133735/wollstonecraft-grave-mary-shelley-frankenstein/ (EMH)]]> 2022-03-24 18:31:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112450325 John Keats and William Wordsworth https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112750420 John Keats was well known from his "modern" poetic project. Where he and many other authors sought to write poetry that showed the human heart without grandeur. Keats saw Wordsworth as the beginning of the movement. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-keats (SW)]]> 2022-03-24 23:13:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2112750420 William Blake and Percy Shelley https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2114529445 William Blake and Percy Shelley aren't particularly known for their similarities, but they have a lot more in common than they get credit for. While William Blake was more of a "songy" sort of poet, Percy Shelley was more fixed on long poetry that proved a point. However, both Shelley and Blake had quite similar views. They both rebelled against conventional things and authority, and they did this in order to gain political, artistic, and personal freedom. 
https://www.bartleby.com/essay/The-Romantic-Poetry-Of-Blake-And-Shelley-P33EGYEJFLLX
(FD)]]> 2022-03-26 02:44:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2114529445 Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Charlotte smith -(MVE) https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2118335964 Both Charlotte Smith's 'To a Nightingale' and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem' are  written using a set strict rhythm in order to convey their message; However, they differ in their view of the nightingale itself. Smith presents it as a 'poor melancholy bird.' Coleridge actually seems to reject the whole purpose of Smith's poem. Coleridge contrasts nature and society, whereas Smith stays largely with the natural world. Both of these pieces have similar titles, but  different messages about the natural world is in within them.Coleridge places it far above humanity, a constant aspiration, whereas Smith values human culture above nature, treats it as, perhaps, a child.

https://www.markedbyteachers.com/university-degree/linguistics-classics-and-related-subjects/compare-charlotte-smith-to-a-nightingale-and-coleridge-the-nightingale-a-conversation-poem.html]]> 2022-03-29 01:48:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymarceau/ENG_242_860BR/wish/2118335964