Extension 1 - Romanticism

[diesxel]

Hello!

I posted a Romanticism creative on the Creative Writing Marking Thread about a month ago...I was wondering if anyone could mark it? I just came here to get some attention for it haha.


Thanks so much 

[Mary_a]

Do you think I'll be penalised for only doing Rime for Coleridge and not two poems? I just have so much, and discussing Kubla Khan along with it makes the whole paragraph ridiculously long and I have to cut information that deepens my analysis of the poems.

Thoughts?

Mary

[carolinewang206]

Do you think I'll be penalised for only doing Rime for Coleridge and not two poems? I just have so much, and discussing Kubla Khan along with it makes the whole paragraph ridiculously long and I have to cut information that deepens my analysis of the poems.

Thoughts?

Mary

I think it's probably better to do kubla khan as well, maybe try adding something in one of your other paragraphs. You don't want to be worrying about it after the exam. How long is your essay at this stage?

[dancing phalanges]

Do you think I'll be penalised for only doing Rime for Coleridge and not two poems? I just have so much, and discussing Kubla Khan along with it makes the whole paragraph ridiculously long and I have to cut information that deepens my analysis of the poems.

Thoughts?

Mary

Hey in my Trials I only did 1 Coleridge poem (no Wordsworth poem) and Frankenstein and got 25. Pretty much because I felt like doing another poem would take away the detailed analysis I had in my exam for all my texts. So don't see why it would be an issue

[Mary_a]

Hey in my Trials I only did 1 Coleridge poem (no Wordsworth poem) and Frankenstein and got 25. Pretty much because I felt like doing another poem would take away the detailed analysis I had in my exam for all my texts. So don't see why it would be an issue

Cheers! x

[Mary_a]

I think it's probably better to do kubla khan as well, maybe try adding something in one of your other paragraphs. You don't want to be worrying about it after the exam. How long is your essay at this stage?

Well... the essay I wrote in trials was 2003 words, with Kubla Khan, haha...

[Em444]

Hi!

I'm playing with my creatives at the moment, I was wondering if incorporating a quote from a philosopher in my creatives is ok? I don't know if it will sound too contrived

Thanks

[dancing phalanges]

Hi!

I'm playing with my creatives at the moment, I was wondering if incorporating a quote from a philosopher in my creatives is ok? I don't know if it will sound too contrived

Thanks

I've done so in mine - 2 or 3 times

[Em444]

I've done so in mine - 2 or 3 times

Ok Thanks!

[carolinewang206]

Well... the essay I wrote in trials was 2003 words, with Kubla Khan, haha...

Thats not too bad then, i reckon just go for it if you can write it in the time

[yum.z2]

How do you recommend making notes for Extension?
Romanticism-topic summary notes etc or studying for it regularly

[Mary_a]

How do you recommend making notes for Extension?
Romanticism-topic summary notes etc or studying for it regularly

Hey,
Welcome to the forums!
How I studied was by pulling apart the syllabus and matching up various techniques + quotes to the syllabus point. I found this was a super effective method of studying because it meant I had a breadth of knowledge across the entire syllabus and entire text!

Just a suggestion

Mary x

[yum.z2]

Hi guys,
We are doing Coleridge's 'Frost at Midnight' atm.
What does the frost in the poem represent? We needed to have a short analysis-meaning of the frost used in the poem.

[dancing phalanges]

Hi guys,
We are doing Coleridge's 'Frost at Midnight' atm.
What does the frost in the poem represent? We needed to have a short analysis-meaning of the frost used in the poem.

I hate using Shmoop but it was the only real place I could find any analysis for it online! I wish I could personally help but I didn't really do any in-depth analysis on this poem at all during the year. Hope this helps either way! The info was taken from here: https://www.shmoop.com/frost-at-midnight/frost-symbol.html

Symbol Analysis
Frost shows up in the beginning, and then… it shows up in the end. But, by the time we see it again, we understand what it really means (or, we're supposed to). Coleridge's poem is centered around finding meaning in Nature—and that includes things that might be a little cold and not warm and fuzzy. Yet, they express beauty and divinity, just as well as the things that are warm and fuzzy. The poem centers on Coleridge's hope that his baby son, Hartley, will learn to find joy in all natural things and seasons—including the frost, which becomes the primary symbol for the evidence of God hidden in a secret place.

Lines 1-2: At the beginning, the frost is just frost, doing its frosty thang: freezing stuff. Most people probably wouldn't say "Oh, man, I love frost. I can't wait for it to frost!" the way they might say, "Sunsets are lovely!" or "The ocean is nice!" So, when frost appears, our attitude towards is supposed to be a little indifferent or ambivalent or confused. What does it mean that it's performing its "secret ministry," anyway?
Lines 71-75: By the time Coleridge has described how Nature is God's "eternal language," we start to get the true meaning of the frost. At the end, it shows up performing its "secret ministry" again, creating icicles, and we're supposed to realize that the frost is a "minister" because it, like the rest of Nature, it's an agent of God. It testifies to his existence. By creating icicles that reflect the moon back to the moon, the frost is like a poet who becomes inspired by the presence of God in Nature and tries to reflect God's glory back at him, by creating poems. Everything in Nature, says Coleridge, symbolizes this divine creative process.

[bowiemily]

Hi guys,
We are doing Coleridge's 'Frost at Midnight' atm.
What does the frost in the poem represent? We needed to have a short analysis-meaning of the frost used in the poem.

Hey there! Personally, Frost was my favourite Colerdige poem. The way that I interpreted it was that the 'babe' that he speaks of throughout the poem isn't really a child, but rather, the self that he creates through the medium of the Romanitc text. This is because he kind of maps out his own life through the span of the poem, talking of the great city pent and traditional education etc. Indeed, he thus undertakes poetry in order to relinuqish himself from his chains, and in turn, remake himself. After all, Romantics believed so much in the supremacy of the self that the state before socialisation (ie. as a babe) was regarded as the most perfect and pure state of self. This is only my reading of the poem, there are many more interpretations