1. By Kyle Danan Mar Sarmiento Emmanuel Millan
The Symbolists
By Kyle Danan
Mar Sarmiento
Emmanuel Millan

2. Symbolism Era after Romanticism and before Modernism
Originated with French poets in 19th century
Decadent
Took “yearning for transcendence” from Romantic poets, made it more sensual, gave it to Modernists
Art over “real” (Emotion over Reason)
Associated with “art for art’s-sake” movement

3. Symbolism Opposition to Naturalism and Realism
“Darker side of human nature.”
Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe
Evoke feelings rather than describing

4. Symbolist Poets Charles Baudelaire Arthur Rimbaud Oscar Wilde
Arthur Symons
William Butler Yeats

5. Symbolist Techniques and Themes
Symbolism
Metaphors
Imagery
Crepuscules (waking and sleeping); Dreams
Synesthesia
Mellifluous tones (musical)

6. William Butler Yeats
June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939

7. Facts Irish poet and a playwright Born in Dublin
Educated in Dublin and London
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
Served as an Irish senator for 2 years

8. Style Allusive imagery and symbolic structures.
Chooses words and assemble them in addition to his own abstract meaning.
Symbols: usually something physical that is both itself and a suggestion of other.
Modernist that is a master of traditional forms other than experimenting with free verse.
Poetry and plays are written in a more personal vein.

9. Works When You Are Old A Crazed Girl
He Wishes For The Clothes Of Heaven
Sailing To Byzantium
A Drinking Song
A Dream Of Death
A Coat
A Dialogue Of Self And Soul
A Faery Song
A Bronze Head

10. Arthur Symons
February 28, 1865 – January 22, 1954

11. Facts Born in Wales Greatly influenced by the work of Paul Verlaine
First volume of verse, Days and Nights (1889), consisted of dramatic monologues
Schooled privately, spending much of his time in France and Italy

12. Style
Uses symbolism
Influenced by William Butler Yeats, T.S. Eliot, and Paul Verlaine.
Disillusionment of feelings appears many times in his poetry.

13. Works
As A Perfume
An Ending
A Brother Of The Battuti
A Winter’s Night

14. Oscar Wilde
Oct 16, Nov 30, 1900

15. Facts
Mother’s English translation of Sidonia the Sorceress deeply influenced writings
Published first collection of poems in 1881
Met Walt Whitman while giving a lecture tour in America
Established self as leader of aesthetic movement
May 1895, sentenced to two years in Reading Gaol for “gross indecency”

16. Works Chanson Impression du Matin Ravenna
Poems (A collection of poems)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Les Silhouettes

17. AP QUESTIONS
Study the painting in the following link and explain how the symbols in the painting relay the theme of the painting. olist+paintings&FORM=HDRSC2#view=det ail&id=C14F581B F19 F779121A3EC&selectedIndex=1

18. AP QUESTIONS
Go, little book, To him who, on a lute with horns of pearl, Sang of the white feet of the Golden Girl: And bid him look Into thy pages: it may hap that he May find that golden maidens dance through thee.
Read the poem by Oscar Wilde above and write an essay identifying how the figurative language relates to the theme of the poem.

19. AP QUESTIONS
The yellow leaves begin to fade And flutter from the Temple elms, And at my feet the pale green Thames Lies like a rod of rippled jade.
Read the excerpt of a poem above, then write an essay in which you explain how the literary devices used creates a vague and mysterious mood.

20. QUIZ

21. Symbolism originated in:
#1 out of 3
Symbolism originated in:
A. The Americas
B. France
C. Poetry
D. Novel Writing A B C D

22. Symbolists were also known as:
#2 out of 3
Symbolists were also known as:
A. Decadents
B. Descendants
C. Poets
D. Modernists A B C D

23. #3 out of 3 Which of the following statement is false?
A. Symbolist poems evoke rather than tell
B. Symbolism opposed Realism
C. There are only French Symbolists
D. One of the above statements is false. A B C D

24. QUIZ FINISHED!

25. Links
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