Jocelyn | poem by Lamartine (2024)

In Alphonse de Lamartine: Political career

…it appeared in 1836 as Jocelyn. It is the story of a young man who intended to take up the religious life but instead, when cast out of the seminary by the Revolution, falls in love with a young girl; recalled to the order by his dying bishop, he renounces…

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    …it appeared in 1836 as Jocelyn. It is the story of a young man who intended to take up the religious life but instead, when cast out of the seminary by the Revolution, falls in love with a young girl; recalled to the order by his dying bishop, he renounces…

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What did Lamartine write about? ›

He deplored the inhumanity of the worker's plight; he denounced the trusts and their dominant influence on governmental politics, directing against them two discourses, one in 1838 and another in 1846; and he held that a working-class revolution was inevitable and did not hesitate to hasten the hour, promising the ...

What is the lake by Alphonse de Lamartine about? ›

He is famous for his partly autobiographical poem, "Le lac" ("The Lake"), which describes in retrospect the fervent love shared by a couple from the point of view of the bereaved man. Lamartine was masterly in his use of French poetic forms.

What is the theme of the poem Le Lac? ›

Analysis (ai): This poem reflects the Romantic theme of transience and the fleeting nature of time. It expresses the speaker's regret for the passing of a cherished moment shared on the lake with a loved one. The poem's structure is cyclical, beginning and ending with the imagery of the lake and its surroundings.

What does Le Lac mean in English? ›

Le Lac (English: The Lake) is a poem by French poet Alphonse de Lamartine. The poem was published in 1820.

What is the message of the poem the lake? ›

The poem emphasizes the soothing effect of a simple life and the soothing effect of nature upon a being. Even when out of his vision, this effect stays with the speaker who keeps it in his heart. This further underscores the poem's message that close contact with nature and a simple life are critical for a happy life.

How did the lake poets get their name? ›

The Lake Poets were a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England, United Kingdom, in the first half of the nineteenth century. As a group, they followed no single "school" of thought or literary practice then known. They were named, only to be uniformly disparaged, by the Edinburgh Review.

What is the poem the lake about? ›

The poem entitled “The Lake” by Edgar Allan Poe is a story of lost love. In the poem the lake has a double meaning representing not only the body of water which the story takes place around, but also a state of happiness, love, and fulfillment.

What is the significance of Lake Poets? ›

Known by some critics as the Lake Poets, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey represent the first generation of English romantic poets. They were a group of artists who established the ideological foundation that would guide English Romanticism in its early stages.

Who were the Lake Land poets? ›

The spectacular landscape of the Lake District has been a huge influence on some of England's best-known writers. In particular the Romantic poets of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Thomas de Quincey and John Ruskin were hugely affected by their surroundings.

Who is associated with the term Lake Poet? ›

Lake poet, any of the English poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey, who lived in the English Lake District of Cumberland and Westmorland (now Cumbria) at the beginning of the 19th century.

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