manchester's pollution by Amna Noor https://padlet.com/amnanoor/t25msa01gce2agqw made with connection issues x en-us 2020-10-15 10:23:30 UTC 2020-10-16 09:28:35 UTC hello@padlet.com During the time this diary entry was written there was a lot of war and occupation going on during the 18th century and 19th and so John Ruskin's work can be an allegory for the European conflicts. The weather can be used to symbolise this and he also wrote about political economy which is clear through the language used in the diary entry for example "artillery peals" and "delivered volleys". mharia https://padlet.com/amnanoor/t25msa01gce2agqw/wish/831774049 2020-10-15 10:27:17 UTC https://padlet.com/amnanoor/t25msa01gce2agqw/wish/831774049 amnanoor https://padlet.com/amnanoor/t25msa01gce2agqw/wish/831786532 John Ruskin was a well known art critic, this can be seen by the descriptive elements within in his diary entry. 'Reddish-violet fire', 'Manchester devil's darkness' - he is able to perfectly depict the visual scene of the thunderstorm; the clouds, the colours and the sound. The descriptions of the separate elements aid one another to create an accurate visual description.

]]> 2020-10-15 10:35:58 UTC https://padlet.com/amnanoor/t25msa01gce2agqw/wish/831786532 The weather through out the diary entry is described as sinister and malice. Which may have been influenced by his lifestyle and experiences as he lived in the lake district surrounded by the woods. So he was able to add these elements and talk about his surroundings in his work. mharia https://padlet.com/amnanoor/t25msa01gce2agqw/wish/831788620 2020-10-15 10:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/amnanoor/t25msa01gce2agqw/wish/831788620 meganhitchmough https://padlet.com/amnanoor/t25msa01gce2agqw/wish/834934394 Thanks to the personal and insightful form of a diary, this extract allows us to venture deeper into the thoughts, feelings and personal experiences of John Ruskin. The diary entry does not romanticise the pollution that enveloped Manchester during and after the industrial revolution, unlike many other authors of the time, but rather uses considerably violent vocabulary to convey Ruskin’s anger towards not only industrialisation, but the humans that invented it. This extract has been labelled “a great prose,” which we can relate directly to his dark descriptions – “Manchester devil’s darkness,” – but more to the fact that the applied form allowed for real, honest opinions. ]]> 2020-10-16 07:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/amnanoor/t25msa01gce2agqw/wish/834934394 MORE CONTEXT POINTS meganhitchmough https://padlet.com/amnanoor/t25msa01gce2agqw/wish/834934661 • Industrial revolution & railway invention – “railway luggage trains.”
• Blaming pollution for the storms he is describing, pollution directly from the industrial revolution – “mass of sultry and foul fog, like smoke.”]]> 2020-10-16 07:12:42 UTC https://padlet.com/amnanoor/t25msa01gce2agqw/wish/834934661 Ruskin's Diary matthewfoleyemail https://padlet.com/amnanoor/t25msa01gce2agqw/wish/835082696 Manchester's Pollution, 1840s.]]> 2020-10-16 09:26:57 UTC https://padlet.com/amnanoor/t25msa01gce2agqw/wish/835082696 John Ruskin matthewfoleyemail https://padlet.com/amnanoor/t25msa01gce2agqw/wish/835083846 2020-10-16 09:27:57 UTC https://padlet.com/amnanoor/t25msa01gce2agqw/wish/835083846