Victorian+Age

=﻿The Victorian Age=

Brad H. Josh I. Danielle N. Amy S. Michael B. Question? Questioning? Question? Question? Question?

__Main Areas of Questioning __ 1. Religion 2. Class rank/system 3. War/fighting 4. Humans/people/homo sapiens/ inhabitants/ US!!!!!!! 5. Strictness of Government


 * The literature of the previous romantic period was how people pictured there lives to be.
 * When transferred into the Victorian Age the literature changed to how life really was and attacked the living, working, and class rank of the people.
 * Many of the poems and short pieces included religion as they were using more science to explain events in this time.
 * The Victorian Government forced children to work in factories like there parents had to.
 * The upper class helped the lower class when they needed help since the upper class had the most money and privileges.
 * There were very few jobs for anyone who needed one to support their family that's why everyone was in poverty.

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Study Guide

"Victorian England: An Introduction." //University// //of Wisconsin Oshkosh// //Department of English//. University of Wisconsin, n.d. Web. 11 Dec 2010.
 * 1) Queen Victoria
 * Ruled from 1837-1901
 * 1) Changes that occurred
 * People started to move to urban areas
 * Started to question everything
 * Industrialization started to push out agricultural cities became over crowded
 * Middle classes and upper classes started to exploit the lower class
 * 1) Poverty
 * Long hours and low wages were most of the working conditions
 * Most people in poverty didn’t have leisure time
 * People that weren’t in poverty attended the theater or music halls during their free time
 * 1) Social Classes
 * The working class consisted of men and women who preformed physical labor, and was paid daily or weekly wages.
 * The middle class consisted of men who preformed mental or “clean” work, and they were paid monthly or annually.
 * The upper class consisted of people that didn’t work, their income came from inherited land and investments.

> > <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">﻿CHANNEL FIRING > > That night your great guns, unawares, > Shook all our coffins as we lay, > And broke the chancel window-squares, > We thought it was the Judgment-day > And sat upright. While drearisome > Arose the howl of wakened hounds: > The mouse let fall the altar-crumb, > The worms drew back into the mounds, > The glebe cow drooled. Till God called, “No; > It’s gunnery practise out at sea > Just as before you went below; > The world is as it used to be: > “And all nations striving strong to make > Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters > They do no more for Christés sake > Than you who are helpless in such matters. > “That this is not the judgement-hour > For some of them’s a blessed thing, > For if it were they’d have to scour > Hell’s floor for so much threatening. . . . > “Ha, ha. It will be warmer when > I blow the trumpet (if indeed > I ever do; for you are men, > And rest eternal sorely need).” > So down we lay again. “I wonder, > Will the world ever saner be,” > Said one, ‘than when He sent us under > In our indifferent century!” > And many a skeleton shook his head. > “Instead of preaching forty year,” > My neighbour Parson Thirdly said, > “I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer.” > Again the guns disturbed the hour, > Roaring their readiness to avenge, > As far inland as Stourton Tower, > And Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge > > -Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) 1914

This is a piece by Thomas Hardy a Victorian poet known for his war peices and several others - Darking Thrush - The Man He Killed

__**//Overview of poem-//**__
Channel firing is one of the best poems to depict the Victorian era. There are many aspects and ways that you can view the poem. The poem goes through a lot of questioning, and its shows how the world really is.

The poem questions religion, war and life styles. It questions war by showing how that it’s mainly destruction and not worth it. It ties into one of the themes of the poem that humans need to learn from past mistakes that war isn’t always the answer. Thomas is questioning war and its importance to the future.

Questioning religion is a big part of this poem. One main point is that if he is basing this off of Christianity, why are the souls still in the men and why aren’t they in heaven? It also questions religion when it states “Ha, ha. It will be warmer when I blow the trumpet (if indeed I ever do; for you are men, And rest eternal sorely need).” He is saying that if god could stop this why hasn’t he. It also attacks religion when he talks about preaching, and he was better off with pipes and beer. He’s showing that he lived his life wrong while preaching and that he could of lived better.

That last part also ties into questioning the life style of people. He’s not sure people are living the lives they are supposed to. He puts the preacher in there because he wants to show that Religious people are wasting there time and have other ways to live life.

=== __The Victorian period-__ The Victorian Era was also a time of tremendous scientific progress and ideas. Darwin took his Voyage of the Beagle, and the Theory of Evolution. The Great Exhibition of 1851 took place in London, introducing the technical and industrial advances of the age, and strides in medicine and the physical sciences continued throughout the century. Karl Marx and his associates, began a second age of revolution in mid-century. The ideas of Marxism, socialism, feminism churned and bubbled along with all else that happened. The Victorian Age was an extremely diverse and complex period. ===