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[Anonymous No.5613129]

Hey /lit/, help me out here. I want to relate romantic poetry to modern media for my students, to show the influence it has had. (Basically, it is included in the curriculum.) A lot of my class are weeb fags, so when I asked them what they wanted me to do as an example for them, they chose Neon Genesis Evangelion. Now I have seen Evangelion, and I can see a few areas that can be related to the romantic era (religious symbolims, nature, man playing god, freedom etc.) but I can't really think of a poem from the romantic era that suits it well. If worst comes to worst, I have a few backup poems that sort of relate, but not really. Can you guys think of a poem from the romantic era that really relates to the romanticism present in Evangelion. My next class with them is Thursday, but I have year 12 tests to mark. Thank you for our help, and feel free to hijack the thread if you wish(with related contend of course).

[Anonymous No.5613147]

A selection from Songs of Innocence and of Experience seems like a good choice to me.

[Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo No.5613165]

>>5613129
http://poesie.webnet.fr/lesgrandsclassiques/poemes/victor_hugo/la_vision_de_dante.html
http://poesie.webnet.fr/lesgrandsclassiques/poemes/victor_hugo/la_nature.html
http://poesie.webnet.fr/lesgrandsclassiques/poemes/victor_hugo/le_crucifix.html
http://poesie.webnet.fr/lesgrandsclassiques/poemes/victor_hugo/satan_dans_la_nuit_i.html

[Anonymous No.5613167]

I am—yet what I am none cares or knows;
My friends forsake me like a memory lost:
I am the self-consumer of my woes—
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shadows in love’s frenzied stifled throes
And yet I am, and live—like vapours tossed

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dreams,
Where there is neither sense of life or joys,
But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems;
Even the dearest that I loved the best
Are strange—nay, rather, stranger than the rest.

I long for scenes where man hath never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept
There to abide with my Creator, God,
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below—above the vaulted sky.

[:^) No.5613176]

The year’s at the spring,
And day’s at the morn;
Morning’s at seven;
The hill-side’s dew-pearled;
The lark’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn;
God’s in His heaven—
All’s right with the world!

[kitty !kitty/EnNg No.5613184]

poetry for weebs
music for swine
also don't they give you what you should teach, why do you want to take the initiative

[Anonymous No.5613190]

most disgusting thread of the month

congrats

[Anonymous No.5613198]

>>5613190
Oh no! The dissaprover is here. RUN BEFORE HE CALLS YOU A PLEB! ARRRRGGGGH!

[Anonymous No.5613203]

I'm at a loss to come up with something short and punchy.

A selection from Paradise Lost would seem to me to be best.

[Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo No.5613205]

>>5613198
Shut up bitchboy.

>>5613203
>romantic

[Anonymous No.5613233]

>>5613147
>>5613165
>>5613167
>>5613176
Thank you very much
>>5613184
Yes they do give me what to teach, but the class is full of dumb fucks that need to be spoonfed and I'm not used to that shit. My class last year was so much better.
>>5613190
Thanks, I guess

[Anonymous No.5613248]

>>5613165
These are good, but I doubt the class will understand. I'm an Irish man in Australia with French relatives. I also did french during the latter period of secondary school. But Ausfags are quite "limited" in what they learn.

[Anonymous No.5613273]

>>5613165
>>5613248
I suppose I could translate them if I were to do them though