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any1 doing romanticism this yr?!?! well i really dont like it cos its really boring!

we're doing coleridge, then northanger abbey (oh great =[) and also wuthering heights

whats ur skool doing??
 

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I am! I don't really find it that bad, it's very historical, though. I'm doing Keats' and Coleridge's poetry and Northanger Abbey like you.
 

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we're doing keats, coleridge and wuthering heights.

yeah, pretty much anything by jane austen or any of the bronte sisters is particularly painful, esp. if you're a heterosexual male.
 

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gouge.away said:
we're doing keats, coleridge and wuthering heights.

yeah, pretty much anything by jane austen or any of the bronte sisters is particularly painful, esp. if you're a heterosexual male.
agreed.
i hate this.
its shit.
i want to strangle john keats.


...we're also doing Possession:A Romance, which relates to the topic somehow..?
 
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i was coming 3rd in extension english & hadnt got a mark lower than 80% but because they were doing romanticism for yr 12 i dropped it.
they were doing wuthering heights & northanger abbey
i couldnt take it lol. so borringg!
 

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possessionless said:
i was coming 3rd in extension english & hadnt got a mark lower than 80% but because they were doing romanticism for yr 12 i dropped it.
they were doing wuthering heights & northanger abbey
i couldnt take it lol. so borringg!
i seriously considered it but really wanted to do ee2, so had to keep :(
 
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alex.leon said:
i seriously considered it but really wanted to do ee2, so had to keep :(
ah ok. better than me. i was just like noooooooo get me out of here haha. i wish it wasnt romanticism :( i think i could have done well. oh well.
good luck with ee2 :)
 

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Yeah, I'm doing Romanticism.

Reading Coleridge at the moment, which is a blast.

To be honest, as a heterosexual male, I'm quite looking forward to Wuthering Heights and Northanger Abbey... :S Compared to doing Emma (which I could never finish) in year 11, reading these two texts, I reckon, will be more enjoyable without the rigidity of the English Adv syllabus.



The best thing about this course is the whole concept of Romanticism, and its ideas, which is quite, well, romantic. I'm ecstatic about this course, really.
 

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M.T.T. said:
Yeah, I'm doing Romanticism.

Reading Coleridge at the moment, which is a blast.

To be honest, as a heterosexual male, I'm quite looking forward to Wuthering Heights and Northanger Abbey... :S Compared to doing Emma (which I could never finish) in year 11, reading these two texts, I reckon, will be more enjoyable without the rigidity of the English Adv syllabus.



The best thing about this course is the whole concept of Romanticism, and its ideas, which is quite, well, romantic. I'm ecstatic about this course, really.
ummm excuse me but what school do u go to? cos u did the EXACT same text as me in yr 11 (emma) and the exact same texts for yr 12 too (coleridge, wuthering heights and northanger abbey)

please hope this is not one of my classmates... =[
 

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alex.leon said:
agreed.
i hate this.
its shit.
i want to strangle john keats.


...we're also doing Possession:A Romance, which relates to the topic somehow..?
Yep, we're doing Possession: A Romance (A.S. Byatt) too and Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen), later on in the course.

Wuthering Heights, we aren't doing though. We're currently studying John Keat's poetry, which is alright.

Honestly, if anything I'm more an *Enlightenment* person as opposed to a *Romanticism* one. Or at least, a comprise of the two. Secular humanist if you will. :D But, this course is rather exciting.

The Bronte sisters are quite fine by my standards, I'm currently 50 pages off finishing Jane Eyre which is rather enjoyable 'overall'. I read Wuthering Heights last term and thought, wow, compelling read, but not much purpose.

As for Jane Austen, I've never read such dull literature in my life. That woman can rant on about nothingness for pages on end. Gossiping upper class women talking about trivial nonsense, like complaining how they will perish if they walk home in an inch of snow. Their lives revolve around gossip, and if there isn't much to gossip about, these women will find something. Their predicaments are always happy marriages of the same class and really, they all perform according to their gender. Perhaps I'm having a go at her because, though she may have been an intellectual, she didn't use her mental faculties for any appreciable purpose, other than to torture english students like myself, over pure folly.

Oh, and it's NOT Mr. Darcy. It's Colin Firth.
 

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Valupatitta said:
ummm excuse me but what school do u go to? cos u did the EXACT same text as me in yr 11 (emma) and the exact same texts for yr 12 too (coleridge, wuthering heights and northanger abbey)

please hope this is not one of my classmates... =[
Um...

Blackwattle Bay Campus
 

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We're doing Keats, Possession (again, how does this relate??) and northanger abbey. Romanticism is alright, but nothing exciting really
 

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Yeah.... Romanticism. Gah. We've been looking at Coleridge's poetry, then we get to read Wuthering Heights and Northanger Abbey over the holidays. I'm over it already. *pout*
 

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jellybelly59 said:
Anyone got any ideas on related texts for romanticism?
you'd have to be shitting me to be doing ext 1 and not have a few just explode into your head.
wordsworth. shelley's frankenstein. lord byron. and the darker and more american side of thigns: edgar allen poe, herman melville, nathaniel hawthorne.

EDIT: sorry for sounding like a dipshit. its just that i did 'in the wild' as my elective for module a this yr during the advanced english course; so i have some knowledge from that regarding romanticism, and ive chosen dark romanticism as my area of interest for ext 2, so some knowledge from there too.

i believe we're doing: keats, coleridge and wuthering heights. though; we have not yet started the ext course; will be doing so nxt yr.
 
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I'm doing Romanticism as well. In our class it was a toss up between that and Crime Fiction. I was all for Romanticism (I love the time period and general context) but I'm starting to think it's going to be hard coming up with a creative piece on it - I could never write poetry like Coleridge or string together words like Austen. Basically, I think I'm screwed.

Our texts are Coleridge (we've gone through the Lime Tree Bower one and Frost at Midnight .. Coleridge is too obsessed with nature, it pisses me off), Northanger Abbey and Wuthering Heights.

At least it ties in with our Advanced course (we're doing Frankenstein and Blade Runner ..)
 

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