AUTUMN by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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AUTUMN by Percy Bysshe Shelley

• (1792-1822)
• 1824

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A Dirge
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Shelleys Gravestone
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Romanticism

• 1st generation William Blake, William
  Wordsworth, Samuel T. Coleridge
• 2nd generation Percy B. Shelley, John Keats
• Romanticism in Literature starts with the
  publication of the Lyrical Ballads by
  Wordsworth in 1798.
• Subjective, irrational parts of human nature
  such as emotion, introspection, response to the
  natural world
• Use of everyday situations (couleur locale)
• Use of the exotic and the supernatural

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FORM

• 2 stanzas of 11 lines each
• Rhyme scheme ABCDB DDDCCE ABCDB DDDCCC
• Alliteration in failing and falling ( 1st
  lines of each stanza), bare boughs (l. 2) , grave
  green (l. 22)
• Repetition 3rd and 14th line, lines 9-10 and
  20-21
• Enjambment 3rd ,9th, 13rd, 15th, 19th, 20th
  line

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Content

• A dirge lijkzang, klaagzang, requiem
• Waarom wordt dit als titel gebruikt ?
• Wie is het lijk ?
• Welke woorden hebben hier een directe associatie
  mee ?
• Wat is de metaphoor ?
• Waar is personificatie gebruikt ?
• Vergelijk The Autumn van Keats met dit gedicht

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• Het gaat om de begrafenis van dit jaar
• The Year (personification)
• Death-bed, shroud, saddest array, bier,
  sepulchre, knelling, put on white, black and
  gray, dead cold
• Months, Sisters (personification) are May /
  October
• Keats fruitfulness, warmth, nice colours,
  harvest, music

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