Merchant Taylors' School

night of infinity man was more often afraid than hopeful. Fear as such is stronger and richer than hope… because the imagination finds many more images for fear than for hope; the images in turn are provided by the organ for pain” (Jean Paul Richter, School for Aesthetics, 1804. In German Romantic Criticism.). Fear and darkness are given a much stronger presence than hope or happiness by both Shakespeare and ETA Hoffman, so much so that each writer kills off a main character in their story. In…

Ranjeet Chaudhari SOC-100 Journal Entry 6 Sudhir’s professor tells him that he needs to share his research notes with law because black king members and JT speak to him about what they do like shootings and other illegal works. Sudhir doesn’t have any kind of protection while he interviews gang members and JT which causes him to think about his studies about the Black Kings. Sudhir meets with Ms. Bailey and JT and tells them what he has learned about…

Cole’s emotions during the altercation between himself and the spirit bear may be illustrated through makeup. When Cole encountered the Spirit Bear he overestimated his strength and got involved in a battle he was incapable of winning. Cole was a confident character, throughout the novel he is depicted as seeming fearless, mighty and always in control. The image he presented towards the reader was an individual who always got his way. He pushed all limits receiving minor consequences and…

During the Romanticism period there was a great deal of individual thought and personal imagination. It was a time for literary and intellectual movement from when America gained independence from England. Although this literary movement originated in Europe and then transferred on to us, we were establishing cultural independence during the Romanticism time period of about 1800-1860. A fair share of poems came from this time period, as they were a big influence, like Henry Wadsworth…

David Yang AP Lang Period 3/4 20 December 2014 Transcendentalism Throughout American History “People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.” William Butler Yeats, a famed Irish poet, believed creativity and emotion did not stem from reason and logic. His words echoed the thoughts of the Romantics, a group of early nineteenth century writers, poets and artists who defied the ideas of the Age of Reason and sought to build a new, more…

lightly. Whether it be life or death neither is within the understanding of humans. Many authors and writers have written stories pertaining to the natural forces of life found within the forces of good and evil, authors such as Mary Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In both the novel Frankenstein and the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Shelley and Coleridge write fictional tales about humans tinkering with life and the severe consequences caused by their actions. Both writers had a…

Rime of the Ancient Mariner was a revolutionary poem written in seven parts by Samuel Taylor Coleridge published in 1798. The poem was an acute example of Romantic values and Nature was a deep rooted theme throughout the piece.The poem is a tale of a Mariner who was once sailing on his ship when his ship was pushed to the South Pole by a…

the speaker begins his time in solitude with the child, which states in line 7, “My cradled infant slumbers peacefully.” Then time moves backwards into the past where the speaker reflects on his childhood. This is known by the line 24, “How oft, at school, with most believing mind.” After the speaker reflects on the past, he beings his mind back to the present where he begins to contemplate the life his child will grow up in. For example, the speaker considers his own time as a child, “In the…

During the semester, we have encountered many different styles as well as many different views of lyricists throughout the Victorian Era. The views of these authors, beginning with some of the very first poets who had introduced the thought of romanticism during this period, had opened up a broad level of interpretation for many poets to come in time. One of the most commonly known writers of the Victorian Era happens to be a man by the name of William Wodsworth. William Wordsworth happens to be…

Coleridge is hard on himself, because he is trying to heal his remorse from his childhood. The only way for him to be happy Is by giving, and wanting the best for his son. Coleridge lost his father, his good friend William Wordsworth, he also left school. Coleridge did not have no one to help him embrace nature or his childhood, but by meeting Wordsworth it help him appreciate nature and look at life differently. "Frost at Midnight!" consists of imagination, nature, his childhood vs adulthood…