Three Romantic Authors
The romantic concepts of solitude and loneliness were popular within works of the 18th century. The three authors, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Blake, all write about the nature and qualities of solitude and the impact it has on an individual. Shelley and the Wordsworth include the theme of companionship within their work and the importance of this quality to someone suffering from loneliness. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the monster battles with the feeling of loneliness and solitude. The monster is running around Europe alone and finds himself in Switzerland. He makes a home for himself in the forest after he flees the cities and villages where he is not welcome. He watches from afar the DeLacey family, and witnesses this small family that exhibits love, devotion, and care that all families strive to achieve. Shelley shows traits of a Romantic writer as she describes this pastoral family in all of their rustic charm. Romantic writers often celebrate the common folk in their works, the people that make their living simply while engaged in simple life. The monster describes to Victor Frankenstein his trials of living in the forest. He steals for food and shelter is scarce. He recounts his situati
It's a very gloomy poem with a strong feeling of solitude. This poem shows the relationship between seven siblings. Each character within the works of these authors, distinguishes the uncomforting feeling of solitude and the value of possessing a companion to spend time with. The monster finds companionship and security within this family, even though they don't know it. He becomes quite fond of his "family" and for the first time feels love. The narrator is just wandering around feeling depressed and lonely. I think that including John and Jane in the count, who have died, is a way she can forget that they are gone and avoid feeling lonely and sad. These authors place a strong importance on the idea of companionship during a time of loneliness. He's lonely and needs some comfort and companionship, yet he! can't bring himself to do what every other husband is doing and sleep with a prostitute. Blake writes, "And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse" (Blake 1298) which explains that the narrator blames the fall of his marriage on the fact that he can't have an affair. Wordsworth writes, "But they are dead; those two are dea!d! Their spirits are in heaven! Twas throwing words away; for still the little maid would have her will, and said 'Nay, we are seven!'" (Wordsworth 1333). "Seven are we; and two of us at Conway dwell, and two are gone to sea, two of us in the church-yard lie, my sister and my brother; and, in the church-yard cottage, I dwell near them with my mother" (Wordsworth 1332). "I wander thro' each charter'd street, near where the charter'd Thames does flow, and mark in every face I meet marks of weakness, marks of woe" (Blake 1298). As a child, she cannot understand why she wouldn't count all seven of her and her siblings. The narrator of the poem talks a little girl about her siblings.
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