The waste land

The waste land:
The comparison between the poem and the Picture, they have many similar things. Both shows a dead land without life and nature is none exist, also both show feelings of loneliness. If I have to choose the best subtitle of the poem to the picture I would put the “dead water” .Water means life, nature, opportunity without water there is nothing, for that reason water is our most important natural resource. The poem and the picture are so powerful in order to emphasise our worst side, for example the destruction of our nature, our terrible garbage contribution. The picture and the poem are excellent in order to bring up these kinds of topics. I related the global warming issue with the poem and the picture, because global warming is our responsibility and the feeling of loneliness.

The Odour of Chrysanthemums and the Rocking Horse Winner

These two short stories have a lot of points in common. The importance of money appears in both stories but from different points of view. In the Odour of Chrysanthemums the luck of money and the misery show up in everypart of the story. I notice these issues through the details of the narration, for instance the description of smells and colors. These descriptions are very clear that I can tell the poverty and the misery. In the Rocking Horse Winner also there is luck of money but there is no misery. The family refuse to face up to the reality and they still try to keep the expensive life style. Money is so important in this short story that the child of the family is worried about it.

There is another important point that the two stories have in common. The father figure is absent, the father appears as a supplier his main function is bring money to home and the affection part is nonexistent.

luck or richness?

This short story is about the complexity of belong to a certain social class. In the story the family does not have enough money but they must keep the expensive style although. One of the children realizes about the luck of money. Consequently this issue was in the child’s mind, he asked to his mother why they have money problems and the mother answered because your father is unlucky. This part in the short story is fundamental because it determined the central topic of the story. It is very important to be a lucky person more than be rich. If you are lucky everything is going to be easier, you will know the right people at the right time in the correct place. Opportunities are going to be everywhere, any decision that you make will has positive consequences in your life. Great ideas will come up easily to your mind when you are lucky.
Finally if you are rich and luck is not in your side you can loose your richness. Maybe you have a lot of money but you are lonely. In addition luck is more important than richness because money without luck is useless.

The invisible Japanese gentleman

This short story is related to the realism movement because it is a simple story full of common details. The comments of the narrator are fundamental in the short story for understand some important details about the characters. For instance through the narrator’s comments the reader can knows that the beautiful lady belongs to upper class. The role of the japaneses is very important because the outhor tries to show that the lady does not have the power of observation. On the other hand the lady thinks she is an excellent writer with the power of observation. Nevertheless she does not have this power she is not able to see the reality she is always thinking about herself.

I think the main point of this story is a satire about romantic writers who are up in the moon instead of being focus on the reality. In addition the satire is concentrated on artists who belong to the aristocracy and their work are useless with cliche titles.

The Romantic view:
In 19th century life was difficult. Human rights and welfare started in this period. Consequently abuse was present in every where. Nevertheless the world was changing the industrial revolution changed the way of leaving of human beings. Factories become important buildings located in the cities and poor people from the outsides saw factories as a life opportunity. Though they were wrong factories become in the symbol of power abuse. Children and women were exploitation and men had to work more than 14 hours per day.
The reality of those time was cruel and welfare nonsexist in human’s mind and aristocracy had the population under control but art changed this picture. Romantic poetry could gives hopes and through imagination let poor people to run away of their sad reality. Finally deep feelings and affections were important and poets began to write about the human essence. The topics were totally opposite to the issues of those times so the themes were about natural places full of beauty, freedom, human rights but also sadness, unhappiness, emptiness and criticism to the society were important topics in the romantic poetry.
The romantic painting also had a extraordinary represent through the figure of Caspar David Friedrich his famous paintings were focus on human loneliness and anguish cries related to the cosmic forces this means a new relationship human being-nature, the rescue of hidden values of night, magic and now the intuition was over the human reason. A clear example of this relationship human being and nature is the walking man over foggy sea. this picture shows the fusion between the painter and the object. Consequently the painter shows his emotions about his paintings, and subjectivism is predominant in the romantic times.
During those times extraordinary masterpieces through simplicity made strong social critics and the critical thinking was powerful.
Romantic poetry also were important in the 19th century because they made social critics between the lines. Also poetry produced on human beings travel to sacred and marvelous places through their imagination. An excellent figure of this art was the painter and the writer William Blake his topic were focus on the artist freedom so the writer could express his deep feeling and his inside view. In those times the relationship between the writer and the universe is full of mysticisms where the human spirit connect to hidden forces. Consequently this kind of artistic expression were consider strange and dark by the society of those times.
Later movements which were close related to the romantic view like expressionism also showed social critics through important pieces of art. For instance the painter Munch did a powerful social critics through his painting the Scream. This painting shows a face screaming, asking for help, trying to escape from misery. This painting shows the worries of a society who suffers abuse, loneliness and misery. Also this painter has an interpretation of a hopeless man in a devastated world by individual societies. The man is considered as a piece of a impersonal machinery.
Finally the romanticism was so powerful that had strong influenced on artistic movement in the 20th century. The romantic view helps me to understand why the artists express something totally different in comparison to the historic context of the 19th century. In the romantic period I can recognize that there are people who had a different sensitivity about the world. The romantic artist shows me other point of view of those times. The subjectivism was very important for them and this issue let me understand that objectivism is not everything in life. People like me is really difficult to understand and analyze this movement because I belong to the pragmatic people. This kind of exercises are marvelous to the mind cause I have to read between the lines and try to understand why some people leaves out of the limits of the society. Also this task helps develop tolerance and open mind. These concepts are fundamental at the present time because I am going to put value to the difference and diversity. Also I appreciate different point of view, ways of leaving and world vision. To sum up romantic influence let me comprehend other artistic expression in 20th century based on the romanticism.

# http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich
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Romantic poetry and women writers

Introduction:
Women writers in difficult conditions as a woman and artist in the 19th century.
1- Society of those times
2-Women role
a) women wives or nuns
b) Artistic women
Conclusion:
They strated to open spaces forbidden for women. Thanks them we can develop in different aspect that in the past some works were consider just for men.

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was a great writer who was focused on society issues. He lived in 19^th century which was an important age the industrial revolution brought positve things but also a lot of negative consequences to the society.

In his short story the signal man appears as a main character a man who is slave of his work and his job is a consequence of Industrial Revolution. The loneliness, and people without anny opportunity of escape to their cruel reality are themes that Dickens underlines in his stories. Through the signal man and Oliver Twist stories the outhor produces critical thinking. Consequently the reader really gets the idea of society of those times. A society which suffers in silence without rights, without welfare state and poverty is totally rejected and help is almost nonexistent.