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   kimfuji Teacher
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   The contemporary French revolution was highlighted in Wordsworth's Solitary Reaper.Blake's London poems represent the the modern metropolitan city of  London. Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocense, Marriage of Hell and Heavean.

   Wordsworth and Blake were part of the Romantic movement. People were fed up with the pollution and how their daly lives were becoming so far removed from nature, that the IR brought to Europe. Due to this, Wordsworth and others began to worship nature and go against the sociaEnorms of the era.

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   Posted by kimfuji on Monday October 12, 2009 at 9:26 PM
   
   

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   Part of what motivate the Romantic thinkers like Blake and Wordsworth to believe so passionately in their ideas was the Industrial Revolution.  It is almost as if they carved their philosophy as a diametric opposite of this moment in history.  Whereas the Industrial Revolution stressed homogeneity and interchangeable parts to maximize production, Romantic thinkers argued for individuality and uniqueness.  Whereas the Industrial Revolution sought to generalize everything to money, production, and profit, the Romantic thinkers argued for a sense of distinction and the ability to "see into the life of things."  Whereas the Industrial Revolution devalued emotions, the Romantic thinkers lauded them.  The ideas that generated the Industrial Revolution- a movement whose origins of capitalism defined the notion of wealth and progress- stood in stark opposition to the Romantic thinkers who felt that the crowded conditions of urbanization caused by industrialization is of critical importance to define oneself against.

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   Posted by akannan on Tuesday October 13, 2009 at 6:49 AM