The Daffodils Poetry Analysis

The Daffodils Poetry Analysis
The Romantic period was one of important periods, Romantic poems have an amazing view for the
nature and landscape, we also can use term Romanticism to describe particular period, Romantic or
Romanticism start in late 1700s to 1820s , the France revolution and the great Napoleonic wars help
to forming the Romantic, the most famous and important poets of Romanticism are Percy Bysshe
Shelley( the young poet), Thomas DE Quincey and William Wordsworth , according to Ross, he
sees that the Romantic poets as greatness because they believe in themselves , also he sees the
Romantic poets influence in the history and politics with no direct connect with people, Ross thinks
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'The daffodils' poem has strong image to show us poet connect with the nature and simple language
because it was addressed to the public and that embodies the features of romanticism ,'the daffodils'
is lyric(song) poem and the poet in one mood or moment (happy) with particular time(morning) and
place(lake district) and use first person narrator(I) to show us his solitary with the nature and strong
emotion aim to describing the beautiful nature, William Wordsworth use iambic which mean
unstressed syllable that followed by stressed syllable because iambic was one of features of
romanticism , he uses rhyme scheme(ABABCC) for example the sound in (lie–mood–eye–solitude)
and the (CC) like sound in (fills–daffodils) known as couplets to create a fantastic sound in the poem
and create more effect on readers, the language is sample which that vocabulary and diction and
syntax is not complex also direct language because the poem was addressing to the public which
means everybody can read it ,the (I) in first poem belong to a poet not for William that know as
personal also its show us the poet solitary with the nature (Watson& Towheed 14–17), the imagery
is the techniques that writer use it to create an image to the reader's and create some effect on the
readers imagery could be figurative language (similes or metaphors), for example first stanza of 'the
daffodils' we see simile(figurative language) between the poet and the cloud that show connection of
the poet with a
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Expostulation And Reply By William Wordsworth
"The 'revolutionary decade' of the 1790s produced literature that was not only distinguished by new
and often radical ideas, but also by experimentation and innovation with regard to genre and form."
Discuss with reference to Lyrical Ballads and/or Maria and/or Northanger Abbey.
In this essay, I will discuss how the literature produced by the revolutionary decade of the 1970's
was distinguished by new and radical ideas, and experimentation with regard to genre and form, in
relation to William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads. The poem which I will be drawing from in this
essay is "Expostulation and Reply", and the Preface to Lyrical Ballads.
Wordsworth was a child of nature, he grew up in a rustic environment, in which he spent much time
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The poem is set in the Lake District of Wordsworth's youth, and embodies the ideals of the
Romantic Era; that nature and human intuition have a kind of knowledge not found in books and
formal education. When confronted as to why he spends his time at the lake, musing and
contemplating, Wordsworth replies with what was to become a memorable moment in english
literature; nature nurtures the mind in a unique way, with it's own wisdom, one which cannot be
found in the pages of scholarly books. To stimulate his senses entirely, a man must just sit in the
presence of nature. This was an idea found in the works of many romantic poets, who were thought
to have a distrust in mankind, but found peace and knowledge in closeness with nature. Romantic
poetry allowed us to see their world directly and "much of romantic poetry invited the reader to
identify the protagonists with the poets themselves."(Abrams)
The metre of this poem is in iambic tetrameter, which places emphasis on the power of nature. For
example, in the first line, the words "old" and "stone" are emphasised by the metre, pointing towards
the poets belief in the power and importance of nature. Again, in the third stanza, the metre points
towards "moth" and "earth", furthering the pointed use of nature as a genre. "it has been common in
critical writing since the romantic period to equate the loosening of specifically metrical restrictions

Which Way Does The Wind Blow?
Which Way Does the Wind Blow?
The Aeolian harp in Coleridge and Shelley The Aeolian harp is a simple instrument that sounds
music according to the wind. Its music depends primarily on the direction, speed, and strength of the
wind, but there isn't much to the harp other than that. Despite being just a simple instrument with a
simple concept, it still manages to make an appearance in many Romantic poems, including the
poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Percy Bysshe Shelley. It's natural that the Aeolian harp
became a Romantic symbol because it lets itself be deeply affected by nature; however, one would
think that it is already a solid concept, therefore it would appear to be the same in all Romantic
poetry. While Coleridge and Shelley sometimes share ideas about the Aeolian harp, they manage to
transform it in a multitude of ways that differ between the two poets and sometimes even in the
individual poet's own poetry. To Coleridge and Shelley the Aeolian harp is much more than an
instrument that is played by the wind, it also stands for poetry, or humans themselves, and even the
so–called "one life". The harp and the wind that acts upon it is representative as poetry and the
poetic wit, especially in Coleridge. In Coleridge's poem "The Eolian Harp", his usage of language
such as "desultory breeze," "sweet upbraiding," and "sequacious notes" (14–18) imply that the notes
from produces by the wind comes together to form actual music. This is further emphasized in
stanza

Hope
Emily Dickinson is a famous poet from the Romantic Period. "Hope is the thing with feathers" is
one of her many poems. It is a poem that talks about hope through metaphorical terms of a bird. I
chose "Hope is the thing with feathers" as my poem because I am a very hopeful person and very
much agree with meaning of this poem. "Hope is the thing with feathers" is, not surprisingly, about
hope. The first two lines read, "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul," (1–2). The
metaphor in these lines, along with the delicate phrasing of the poem, contributes to the creation of
an image of hope that is like a dove, wholly pure and good. The next couple lines, "And sings the
tune without the words, and never stops at all," (3–4) let us know there is always hope. Shortly after
these lines, Emily Dickinson writes, "...kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilliest land, and on
the strangest sea," (8–10) letting us know that hope is everywhere and it has helped many people
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One characteristic of the poem that helps define it as a Romantic poem is it includes a bird. Poets
from the Romantic Period often incorporated nature in their poems. Another hint that this poem may
be from the Romantic Period is that hope is quite an imaginative subject. Authors from the
Romantic Period really valued imagination. The poets also wrote with, and valued emotion. I'm not
sure if hope classifies as an emotion, but it is close enough that poets from the Romantic Period
would value hope too. Poets from the Romantic Period also tried to write their poems very
smoothly, and this poem was written very smoothly. "And sweetest in the gale is heard; and sore
must be the storm" (5–6) were two lines that were written particularly smoothly because of the use
of the "s" sounds in the alliteration. Clearly, this is a poem from the Romantic

Transcendentalism: The Theme Of Nature And Nature By...
Nature is part and parcel of God, a great moral teacher, guardian, the best mother and nurse of man"
– William Wordsworth
1.1 Abstract
Transcendentalism is mostly an unexplored territory in literature. Despite a plethora of literature
comprising elements of nature, of which it is an integral part of. Transcendentalism, simply put "is
an idealistic philosophical and social movement which developed in New England around 1836 in
reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that
divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and
communal living. (Oxford dictionaries). A gift of insight, intuition and inspiration bestowed upon to
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What sets William Wordsworth's attitude towards nature in his poetry, apart from his other
contemporaries?
4. How the element of transcendentalism employs the theme of nature? And elevates the poetry of
Wordsworth?
1.4 Hypothesis
It is true that nature has forever been a source of inspiration for poets throughout history. Yet it has
also come under observation that often nature in poetry has been associated with the idle mind as
opposed to the idyllic. Not enough has been done to highlight and prove the healing power of nature
through composing poetry. It is therefore hypothesized that despite the dismissal of the cathartic
powers of nature in poetry, William Wordsworth has managed to successfully enhance the element
of transcendentalism, nature and healing through his poetic works.
1.5 Rationale of the study
The research will aim to highlight how William Wordsworth has evoked the divinity of nature and
explored transcendentalism in his renowned poems, in particular "I wandered lonely as a cloud (also
known more popularly as Daffodils)", "To a skylark", "It is a beauteous evening, calm and free" and
"The world is too much with us," The work will be analyzed keeping in mind the core theme of
dissertation.
Chapter 2
2.1 Literature

Creative Project
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Graded Assignment
Write Like a Modernist
Over the course of the next several days, you will complete a writing assignment. In the assignment,
you will demonstrate your understanding of the tenets of modernist literature by rewriting a
Romantic poem in a way that incorporates typically modernist qualities in terms of language, style,
literary elements, and themes. The assignment is broken down into four parts.
Part 1: Choose a Romantic Poem
Romantic literature champions the beauty of the world and the inherent goodness of human beings,
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|When all at once I saw a crowd, |As the black fog cleared, I saw a building, |
|A host, of golden daffodils; |Ten thousand crumblecracking bricks; |
|Beside the lake, beneath the trees, |Beside a forsaken hospital, over a glass–strewn street, |
|Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. |Sagging depressed during Tefnut's shower. |
Part 4: Briefly Explain Your Modernist Rewrite
In a response of at least two paragraphs, provide an explanation of the steps you took to rewrite the
Romantic poem you selected. Your explanation should point out at least three typically modernist
qualities in your work with regard to elements such as language, style, literary elements, and
themes. Here, as an example, is a brief explanation of the modernist rewrite of the first stanza of
Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud":
In the first stanza of my rewrite, I tried to drastically change the mood of the poem. I did so by first
changing the opening simile, linking the speaker (who is most certainly distinct from myself as the
poet) to a World War I flying ace looking down on an empty town devastated by war. This image not
only

Analysis Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's ' Kubla Khan '
Experts widely regard Samuel Taylor Coleridge as one of the few major leaders of British
Romanticism. His poems, both individual works and collaborations with another Romantic leader,
William Wordsworth, are proof of this. His works incorporated ideas that are often found in
Romantic poetry, such as a reverence for nature, emphasis on emotion and imagination over reason
and logic, and other themes that contradicted thinkers of the Age of Reason. Coleridge assisted in
the change from Enlightenment ideals favoring rationality and deduction to a "thinking with your
heart" style. Coleridge had a strange childhood as the last of ten children and largely isolated from
the world, and therefore had few companions other than the books he so loved to read. This exposed
him to the ideas that eventually made him into the renowned Romantic poet readers view him as
today. Coleridge's upbringing in 18th century England and close association with other poets,
including the co–authoring of Lyrical Ballads with William Wordsworth, helped form his worldview
and poetic style, evidenced in his poem Kubla Khan, which in turn shaped English Romanticism and
the way readers would look at poetry forever.
One of the largest influences on Coleridge was his unusual adolescence and the people he met, as a
child and later on. It is said best as, "For Coleridge, childhood is the shaper of adult destiny"
(Gradesaver). The youngest child of ten, he had his father die when he was not even nine years

Death And Love : Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson, born in a puritan and religious family in the town of Amherst, Massachusetts, is
known to be one of the greatest poets of all time. However, she is characterized because she seldom
left her home and had few visitors. By 1860, Dickinson lived in almost complete isolation, and yet
the few people to ever have contact with her were a huge influence on her poetry. Grief, was
Dickinson's primary companion, especially during her writing period, which some scholars attribute
as the time between 1858 and 1865. Similarly, Giacomo Leopardi, who specialized in the analysis of
the cause of human unhappiness, went through what is referred to poetic silence (1823–1830). That
is to say, Leopardi was also a victim of his own seclusion. What connects both poets despite them
not crossing paths on earth is their focus on death and love as recurring themes in their poems.
Leopardi's thoughts evolved from the gradual awareness of his own unhappiness, which was caused
by the solitude and isolation of his upbringing. Both poets are prominent in world literature, but
what was it that made them what they are? Is it their solitude, grief and unrequited love what led
them to share interest in both death and unhappiness? It is clear that for both poets, their decision to
live life as recluses did not close their mind whatsoever, but rather allowed the flow of new thoughts
and inner experiences with self–discovery. Overall, many of Dickinson's poems refer to an invisible
lover, –

Comparing and Contrasting Self-Awareness in the Works of...
Defining Self–Awareness in the works of Emerson, Whitman and Poe
Literature in the American Renaissance influenced the Romantic sentiment that prevailed during this
period: the emergence of the individual. This materialization evolved out of the Age of Reason,
when the question of using reason (a conscious state) or faith (an unconscious state) as a basis for
establishing a set of beliefs divided people into secular and non–secular groups. Reacting to the
generally submissive attitudes predominant in America at this time, nineteenth century writers
envisioned "the source of religion within consciousness itself" (Chai, 10). This "secularization of
religion" ultimately led to the "isolation of the self from others" (Chai, 10), and ... Show more
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This individual is the Romantic hero, the one "who in the midst of a crowd keeps with perfect
sweetness the independence of solitude" (Emerson, 263). Emerson explains how this transcendence
from a dulled state of consciousness to a higher level of awareness is achievable if you "insist on
yourself; [and] never imitate" (278). In his usual candid style, Whitman identifies himself as this
hero in Song of Myself proclaiming, "I exist as I am, that is enough, / And if no other in the world
be aware I sit content, / And if each and all be aware I sit content. / One world is aware, and by far
the largest to me, and that is myself" (2759). Improbable as it seems, Poeâs hero begins to resemble
the Îmeâ in Whitmanâs last line "who trustingly consults and thoroughly questions his own soul"
(qtd in Rosenheim, 25). This correspondence in self–awareness links these authors to each other,
and to Romanticism.
Clearly Emerson and Whitman leaned in one direction of Romanticism while Poe sought the other.
Perhaps the most fascinating discovery though, is how on every front, Poe demonstrates a strikingly
different perspective on self–awareness from that of Emerson and Whitman. Moreover, their ideas
were not simply divided by their bias for either a conscious or unconscious state; in

How Is Wordsworth Influenced By William Wordsworth
Wordsworth is an high English poet and an establishing member of the Romantic Movement in the
English literature. He lived and wrote at the period between 1770–1850 which is "the golden era of
romanticism". Like other Romantics, Wordsworth poetry and personality also were greatly
influenced by his love for the nature, especially by the spectacles and views of the Lake Country
area, where he spent most of his life in nature. Wordsworth is sincere thinker; he showed high
tenderness and a love of nature and simplicity. Two persons affected him personally and literary, his
sister Dorothy and the great romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. William Wordsworth's poem "I
wondered lonely as a cloud" or "the Daffodil" is one of the most well–known ... Show more content
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It says that even when you are by yourself and lonely and missing your friends, you can use your
imagination to fine new friends in the world around you. As John Milton famously wrote, "The
mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven." The speaker of
this poem makes a heaven out of a windy day and a bunch of daffodils. His happiness does not last
forever – he's not that unrealistic – but the daffodils give him a little boost of joy whenever he needs
it, like recharging his batteries. In conclusion, William Wordsworth is one of the best romantic
poets; actually he established the romanticism in the English literature. Now, we can say that the
poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is the pest representation of romantic poetry. It contains most
of the characteristics of good romantic poetry. Such characteristics as subjectivity, the love of nature,
love of beauty, and joyful memories of the past. In addition, Wordsworth was influenced by his
Sister Dorothy who inspired him to write many of his poems. We can always find a source for
William's

John Keats Accomplishments
Many famous writers have careers spanning over decades, though one English Romantic poet was
able to achieve fame in his short career of only five years. John Keats was a poet with a remarkable
ability to perceive the world around him; an ability that resonated throughout his works. Although
John Keats lived an unfortunately short life, he is considered one of the most important figures of
the English Romantic movement because of his use of Romantic literary devices and themes of love
and loss in poems such as "La Belle Dame sans Merci" and "When I Have Fears that I May Cease to
Be." On the outskirts of London on Halloween in 1795, famous Romantic poet John Keats was born.
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Regardless of finally achieving success from his poetry, Keats received the news of the good
reviews with mixed emotions ("John Keats: Love, Life, and Death"). Advised to do so by his
doctors, Keats left England and his love, Fanny Brawne, in September to spend his final months in
the warmer climate of Italy ("John Keats: Love, Life, and Death"). By this time Keats had
abandoned any ideas of continuing to write poetry, and lived his final months feeling as if he were
already dead ("John Keats: Love, Life, and Death"). Keats said that he was "leading a posthumous
existence" ("John Keats: Love, Life, and Death"). After fighting off the disease for almost six more
months, Keats died in Rome on February 23rd, 1621 at the young age of 25. One can only imagine
the heights to which Keats would have soared had he lived longer. Despite his short career in poetry,
Keats became one of the most popular and acclaimed English Romantic poets ("John Keats:
Biography"). Keats' brief career as a poet did not prevent him from becoming a primary leader of
the English Romantic movement. His works, along with those of Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe
Shelly are most frequently connected with Romantic poetry. The Romantic movement places
harmony with nature in high regard and stresses the development of the individual (The Academy of
American Poets). Romantic poetry often focuses on one idea which eventually morphs into a
contrasting idea by the end of the poem (Melani).

William Wordsworth Expostulation And Reply Poem
In this essay, I will discuss how the literature produced by the revolutionary decade of the 1970's
was distinguished by new and radical ideas, and experimentation with regard to genre and form, in
relation to William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads. The poem which I will be drawing from in this
essay is "Expostulation and Reply", and the Preface to Lyrical Ballads.
Wordsworth was a child of nature, he grew up in a rustic environment, in which he spent much time
playing outside, in touch with his surroundings. He would later refer to this time as a pure
connection to nature. As a young man, Wordsworth moved to France, which, at the time, was in the
grip of a violent, volatile revolution. The Reign of Terror, and all that accompanied it, was ... Show
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Wordsworth and his contemporaries sought to move the discoveration and formulation of
knowledge and wisdom from wrote learning and classrooms to the real world, to nature, to make
time to contemplate and reflect, to discover their own views on the world, instead of having them
given to them by teachers and their superiors. In "Expostulation and Reply", we see that
Wordsworth is not content with Matthews suggestion that he read the books of those that passed
before him, to take their knowledge. "Up! up! and drink the spirit breathed
From dead men to their kind." (wordsworth) This is not enough for the poet, he does not simply
want to learn another persons knowledge, and have that same knowledge recanted for generations.
Instead, he wants a society where we learn our knowledge, and find our own wisdom, in nature.
This, above any other, is the radical idea of the Romantic

The Tenets Of Romanticism
In the introduction of his book Romanticism, Aiden Day quotes The Oxford Companion to English
Literature as saying that Romanticism is
A literary movement and profound shift in sensibility, which took place in Britain and throughout
Europe roughly between 1770 and 1848. Intellectually it marked a violent reaction to the
Enlightenment. Politically it was inspired by the revolutions in America and France... Emotionally it
expressed an extreme assertion of the self and the value of individual experience... together with the
sense of the infinite and the transcendental. Socially it championed progressive causes. The stylistic
keynote of Romanticism is intensity, and its watchword is 'Imagination'. (qtd. in Day, Romanticism
1)
This is likely the most thorough and most accurate definition of romanticism, mentioning many of
the tenets associated with Romanticism. The American and French revolutions, the championship of
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With the American War of Independence and The French Revolution serving as inspiration in the
late 18th century, humanitarianism quickly gained popularity. Aiden Day referred to this as 'The
fashionableness of humanitarian sympathy' (Day 12). Charlotte Smith was one of the many poets to
be taken in by the tide of Humanitarianism that gripped writers of the Romantic era and that is
pronounced in both her prose and poetry. Although, as Day points out, Smith targeted her writing
towards a particular middle–class audience, and therefore wrote to serve them, there is still evidence
of her 'radical leanings' throughout her writing (Day 31). While in some of her work such as The
Old Manor House it is not made obvious, the same cannot be said for all of her work. For example,
in her poem The Emigrants Smith describes the new lives of French people exiled from their home
country after the French Revolution (Day

Analysis Of The Prelude And Lord Byron 's Biting Epic
The Romantic poets sought to write epic poems that incorporated new philosophies, ideals, and
literary trends, while also parodying, satirizing and deconstructing the epic poem itself. Rather than
merely extend the epic tradition, the Romantic poets subverted the characteristics and tropes
attributed to epic poetry, in turn creating an interesting revision of the epic. Two seminal works of
Romantic poetry that adequately showcase the revision of epic tradition are William Wordsworth's
introspective epic The Prelude and Lord Byron's biting epic satire Don Juan. Incorporating either
introspection and reflection or irony and satire, both works incorporate themes from the epic
tradition while also subverting its significant aspects.
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Wordsworth is known for his introspection, often writing about feelings, emotions, mortality, and
nature. Wordsworth's The Prelude is a seminal work and a prime example of the romantic revision
of epic tradition. The poem is about the growth of the poet's mind. It is autobiographical and deals
with different periods of Wordsworth's life, such as his childhood, his time at Cambridge and his
residence in France. The poem features Wordsworth reflecting on his experiences and feelings, and
the poem acts as a look into how he views himself as a poet. In The Politics of the Epic:
Wordsworth, Byron, and the Romantic Redefinition of Heroism, author Paul Cantor contends that
despite the use of epic writing, the poem itself is vastly different from the epic. "It is written in an
elevated blank verse that often has a Miltonic ring, it contains epic diction and epic similes, and it
shows many other signs of Wordsworth 's attempt to work within the established epic tradition. But
if one looks at the beginning of the poem, where the epic poet traditionally invokes his Muse, one
can see how radically Wordsworth differs from his predecessor" (Cantor, 377). The poem seems to
mimic the Miltonic epic in its style and diction. This does not mean, however, that Wordsworth
intended to follow the conventions of the epic, as The Prelude breaks several of the conventions of
classical epic poetry. For instance, the poem does not deal

The Themes Of Blake's Songs Of Innocence And Experience
Songs of Innocence and Experience stand alone as a type of poetry which was never written before.
Songs of Innocence, published in 1789, and Songs of Experience, published five years later, present
a sharp contrast of innocent childhood to corrupt youth, highlighting the differences between these
two stages of human life. For Blake, childhood is the epitome of innocence and purity, devoid of any
moral corruption, whereas adult age that he has attributed to experience makes human beings
morally and spiritually fallen. There is no denying that when Blake talks of innocence, he assumes
childhood as clean and as pure as nature. Blake's songs of innocence are fraught with references to
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These objections may have carried their weight, but Blake is a romantic in his own capacity within
his own parameters of the concepts of imagination, sublime, beauty, and nature. He has the capacity
of appreciating the simple things of and from nature. In 'A Cradle Song', Blake captures the pleasure
of a mother who takes joy in watching her baby's innocent gestures and movements. What can be
simpler, truer, purer, and more natural, than an expression of care and love of a mother for a baby?
Blake's description, in this simple four stanza poem, touches on the reader's heart and fills it with
tender and soft feelings, which are innate to human beings, and Blake as a poet has a quality to
transfer them into words. Children are the greatest gift of nature and Blake is truly romantic in his
depiction of this entity. Through the repeated word 'sweet', Blake shows the overwhelming passion
and devotion of a mother to her child. Within the same parameters, a poem 'Infant Joy', depicts a
new born boy who is asked by his mother that what name he wants and the baby happily chooses his
name, Joy, as this is all he knows. As a baby, he knows no worries, no troubles, and no miseries.
This simple poem celebrates mother's happiness as she blesses her baby with her pray for his
upcoming life of joy and happiness. The poem's simplicity and charm go parallel with each other as
we know that nothing could be more pure and charming than a child. To give a choice to a child to
choose his name implies Blake's wish for all human beings to have freedom of thought and

Poetry and Poets of the Romantic Movement
Introduction Poetry in the Romantic Movement constituted an aspect of rebellion against the
enlightenment principles as the poets of the time portrayed. The likes of William words worth,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Williams Sister, Dorothy Wordsworth constituted some of such poets
whose influence in the world of literature not only helped portray their relationship with nature and
the world but also presented a form of relationship which existed between them and those close to
them. As reflected in the movie pandemonium, the three literally artistes interrelated in a very
noteworthy way especially in light of their work and the personal lives and careers that they shared.
To a considerable extent, the relationship between the three had some significant effect on their
work. In addition, they affected one another's' world in the way they related. Samuel Taylor
Coleridge Samuel Taylor, an English poet, philosopher and literary critic was born in 21 October
1772 and died on the 25th of July 1843. He was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement
aside from being a member of Lake Poets. Among the poems Samuel wrote include, 'kubla khan'
and 'the Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. Samuel Taylor is also synonymous with phrases like
"suspension of disbelief", one of the many phrases he coined. He also received accolades for his
significant works on Shakespeare in addition to his aid in the introduction of German romantics
among the English culture. All through his grown–up life,

William Wordsworth As A Romantic Poet
William Wordsworth was born in April 7, 1770 in a village on the edge of the Lake District in
northwest England. In 1787 Wordsworth was enrolled at St. Johs' College, Cambridge as a
scholarship student, but because he was un–interested in the curriculum, he decided to depend on
self–reading. During his twenty's years of central events have took place in Wordsworth life,
receiving money from a friend that enabled him to process a house, and the establishment of
collaboration with Smauel coleride that led to the publication of a volume of poems and ballads.
Many of his poems were composed while he was walking through a neighborhood, a park, or
uninhabited area. (McDonnell. Veidemanis and pfordresher, 1991, pp: 449, 462). William
Wordsworth has represented his inner voice and life through his poems that were in relation to the
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In living in a remote part of near a lake, Wordsworth considered that a valuable opportunity and
experience to amply his imagination as a poet, also he used to revise and re–write and reorganize his
poems to appear in the final form (Watson & Towheed, p, 21).
1– Romantic writers as Wordsworth see themselves as reacting against the though and literary
practices of the proceeding century. The major subject in the romantic work especially in the poems
as the daffodil by William Wordsworth is the beauty and the satisfactions achieved from the nature
followed by feelings of pleasure. Nature meant great deal to the romantics, such as it has been
perceived as the healing power, a source of subject and image, a resort from the artificial constructs
of

The Fire Side Poets from the Romantic Period of Literature...
The Romantic period in American Literature dates from 1800–1860. It was a time where people
were trying to find a distinctive voice. The Romantic period included letters, poems, essays, books,
and art. Most of the authors focused on feelings, which is why it's called the "Romantic" period. The
authors can be put into four different groups, The fire side poets, The Transcendentalist, American
Gothic, and The Early Romantics. The fire side authors had an appreciation for nature. Poems were
read aloud around camp fires by many different families. This is how they got the name Fire side
poets. The most famous poet of the fire side poets was Henry Longfellow. Longfellow wrote the
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Heidegger experiment." Edgar Allen Poe wrote "The pit and the pendulum." Both of these stories
made it out to seem that people are evil and unjust. Hawthorne s story really gave me the impression
that people are selfish. Dr. Heidegger wanted to see if the water from the fountain of youth would
really make people youthful again, so he gave four other people the water but had no idea what the
water would actually do to these people. Dr. Heidegger himself said he did not want to be apart of
his experiment. Edgar Allen Poe really stood out to me. The story of a man being thrown into a pit
with nothing but himself and four walls was very unjust and evil. Overall the Gothic period was full
of stories that shared the evil and unjustness of people. The Early Romantics were inspired by
Americas beauty. The Early Romantics stressed individualism. They put a lot of value on the
common person. Some of the more known authors of The Early Romantics were William Cullen
Bryant and Washington Irving. Bryant wrote about his views on death and after life in the poem "
Thanatopsis." It shared a lot of my same thoughts on death and after life and really shared a story
filled with emotion and feeling. "The Devil and Tom Walker" was a writing by Washington Irving,
who was the inventor of the short story. This story criticized people and their greed. His message in
the story to me was that its not always worth selling your soul to the "devil" in exchange to get what
you

Poetry Is Not Just The Vision Of The Writer
Poetry exists at a junction between language and state of mind. Poetry is not just the vision of the
writer put to a page, meant to evoke and inspire readers. Poetry is thoughts concealed given breath–a
story reflecting the interior landscape of the mind. Just as it can be a breath of air, poetry can grip
the heart–the mind can be an awfully dark place. Within gothic poetry the horror and fears of the
poet lie just beyond the words of the poem itself. The words are emotional viscera given form.
Poetry is aesthetic and inspiring and its brevity extends it to forms beyond itself. The works of
romantic poets have been recycled and reimagined as a result of our continued love affair with the
ideas of the gothic and supernatural. The works of ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
Films, music, video games, opera, art, and comics are all belonging together within the same family.
Each of these creative modes utilizes the gothic in new ways though they all give viewers the
experience of the sublime. They continue to shock us out of the limits of our everyday lives with the
possibility of things beyond reason and explanation, through the shape of awesome characters,
terrifying scenes, and inexplicable and profound events. This literary movement continues to affect
the creative world today because its deep connection to the surreal. This, when raised to the level of
poetry, reveals the very essence of the genre: an expression of the range, gall, depth, and visceral
power of the human imagination. Gothic literature itself owes much to its roots and to Horace
Walpole's The Castle of Otranto–a story incorporating the supernatural, cursed lords, monks,
princesses, romantic love, and gloomy castles, and other elements that essentially constitute the
genre. In its second edition, titled A Gothic Story, Walpole's novel consolidates the fanciful element
medieval romance with the realism of the modern novel–finding an intermediary point that created
many other staple traits of gothic literature that would come to influence and draw the attention of
many writers. "Like most terms denoting genre or periodization, 'gothic' is retrospective, coined in
Britain after its referents had come to dominate the shelves of circulating libraries and the boards of
the

Comparing Robinson's Sappho, The Muse And The Romantic Poet
The female authorial voice must be emancipated from masculine influence in order to provide a
liberated representation of the Feminine amidst eighteenth–century patriarchy. Women have no need
to model their literature after masculine models of reason, and must instead channel genuine
passions in order to continually resist conventions, consequently persisting through the literary ages.
Mary Robinson writes Sappho and Phaon as a cautionary tale against attempting the ideal,
'reasonable' and 'masculine' state, expanding on the conventional romantic basis of the sonnet to
illustrate a means of literary emancipation for 'sensibility' and the 'feminine'. Robinson's sonnets
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Sappho is then a vital Muse not only because she allows Robinson to historicise the need for
authoritativeness to return to the female authorial voice, but also highlights the need for an
emblematic female figure for this process of Enlightenment. Dreams of a Rival (Sonnet 32) presents
another female which creates a deeper sense of satisfaction for the female speaker than the male.
This female figure, nameless and transient, adds another dimension to the linear, unrequited love
between Sappho and Phaon. Instead of antagonism, the 'imagined rival' instead seems another
desirable object. Robinson does not describe this imaginary female in parts, as she has done to
Phaon, but through Sappho, illuminates a more wholesome, "tender, timid, warm" (Line 6) romance
to the addressee, the 'Sicilian maid' (Reynolds 46). Instead of mere woman–to–woman desire, as
Reynolds indicates, this may also underscore Robinson's point for female authorial independence:
female literature is more wholesome in its sensibility, casting it in a sphere of literature equal to, if
not transcendent of, masculine literary practice. The desire for the missing figure indicates an equal
need for guidance of the Sapphic fragments, as well as mimics

William Wordsworth 's Poem Of The Bird And Its Song With...
William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Clare were influential romantic poets who
sought to learn about themselves and their art by immersing themselves as nature and utilizing
different animals as their muses. These three poets each observed skylarks in their natural habitat
and sought to decipher the meaning behind their songs. From these experiences, each wrote a poem
which described their perspectives. Wordsworth, Shelly, and Clare's Skylark poems are arguably
written in dialogue with each other. While Wordsworth and Shelly look upon the bird and its song
with adoration, both seeking to learn from the animal, Clare possesses a much darker conception of
the skylark's song, and instead attempts to reprimand and teach the bird. Their observations and the
opinions of the lark are dictated by the season in which they find themselves listening to the bird's
song. Wordsworth and Shelly are envious of the Skylark's freedom to travel wherever it may please,
which partially dictates their infatuation with the creature. Wordsworth declares to the Skylark:
Though hast a nest, for thy love and thy rest: And, though little troubled with sloth, Drunken Lark!
thou would'st be loth To be such a Traveller as I. Happy, happy Liver! (ll. 18–22)
When examining the bird in its natural habitat, Wordsworth acknowledges that it has a home for a
family and for relaxation, and yet can still fly whenever and wherever it may please. While he lives
the life of a traveler as

Escape In Romantic Poetry
Repression and the Desire to Escape in Romantic Poetry
Romantic poetry encompasses many things, involving, but not limited to; nature, the sublime, and
strong senses of emotion. Many of the romantic poets wrote about nature, and how nature strongly
relates to that sense of emotion. Of course when you lack emotion, or you are struck with many
negative emotions, romantic poetry shows that nature itself is the remedy that you may require. Not
only does romantic poetry show that nature can cure, but it shows that an escape to nature is
required in order to understand it, and receive the cure that you seek. It shows that you must
abandon your past struggles, and learn to embrace nature. This begs the question; how does
romantic poetry attempt to show that nature is the cure to the issues that you currently face? Many
of the romantic poets attempt to show that through an escape to nature, you are able to become
enlightened. William Wordsworth's "The Ruined Cottage" exhibits a woman (Margaret) who is
surrounded by romantics, which is used to contrast that which are her struggles, and her lack of
romanticism. This essay will look at the desire to escape the struggles that the characters are facing
through a romantic escape to nature. It will display how Wordsworth's "The Ruined Cottage"
conveys a message of escapism to nature as a cure to hardship through a character that fails to
escape, as well as how John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" shows a character who succeeds with

Lord Byron Romantic Poet
"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is
not the tree of life." – Lord Byron Lord Byron was exceptional poet whose work would stick around
forever and awe inspire many. Though born in the late 1700's, Lord Byron was one of the leading
figures of the Romantic Movement in early 19th century England. The notoriety of his sexual
escapades is surpassed only by the beauty and brilliance of his writings. After leading an
unconventional lifestyle and producing a massive amount of emotion–stirring literary works, Byron
died at a young age in Greece pursuing romantic adventures of heroism. Lord Byron is regarded as
one of the greatest British poets and is best known for his amorous lifestyle and his brilliant use of
the English language. Born George Gordon Byron, on January 22nd, 1788, Lord Byron was the
sixth Baron Byron of a rapidly fading aristocratic family. Byron was born with a club foot that left
him self conscious for most of his life. As a young boy, George had to endure many unfortunate
events. Including his father abandoned the family, his schizophrenic mother and nurse who abused
him. As a result he lacked discipline and a sense of moderation, traits he held to his entire life. In
1798, at age 10, George inherited the title of his great–uncle, William Byron, and was officially
recognized as Lord Byron. Two years later, he attended Harrow School in London, where he
experienced his first sexual encounters with males

Literary Analysis of Lord George Gordon Byron: Capturing...
Love is responsible for the greatest tragedies in life which leaves a resounding impact on people.
Lord George Gordon Byron was a Romantic poet who was alive from January 22, 1788 to April 19,
18241. During his life he was a man of many relationships with most of them ending unsuccessfully
and in heartbreak. His first love, Mary Ann Chaworth, broke his heart when he overheard her
disdainfully say to her maid "Do you think I could care anything for that lame boy?"2 when he
believed they really had something special. Another woman, Caroline Lamb, remained infatuated
with Bryon after a brief love affair in which he moved on quickly while she remained head over the
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Now she is gone and only the worst days can belong to him. His sense of sorrow is driven home a
little deeper. The contrasting differences between the two poems targets the painful emotions that
come with falling out of love.
While there are contrasts to Byron's poems they also share many similarities in the way the theme of
lost love is developed and the love prospects portrayed. Both poems are centered around the end of
the relationship which is symbolized with the passing of the day into night or night into day. In
"We'll Go No More A–roving" "though the night was made for loving,/And the day returns too
soon,/... we'll go no more a–roving.". The successful part of the relationship was compared to the
duration of the night, much like Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" in which the secret lovers can
only meet in the dark because when " Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day/ Stands tiptoe on
the misty mountain tops. / I must be gone and live, or stay and die."4, relating this to "We'll Go No
More A–roving" the couple spends time "a–roving" at night and like the inevitable return of day, the
night ends and so does the love the two lovers have for each other. The connection to the cycle of
the day in "And Thou Art Dead As Young and Fair" is to the length of

The Importance Of Romanticism In Literature
Romanticism was away for poets to express their feelings emotions and their personal views of
nature. Romanticism started in the mid–eighteenth century and achieved its stature in the nineteenth
century. The Romantic writing of the nineteenth century holds in its themes the goals of the day and
age, focusing on feeling, nature, and the articulation of "nothing." The Romantic time was one that
centered around the shared trait of mankind and, while utilizing feeling and nature; the writers and
their works shed light on individuals' all inclusive natures. According to Merriam Webster dictionary
the definition of Romanticism is "a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the
18th century, characterized chiefly by a reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the
imagination and emotions, and marked especially in English literature by sensibility and the use of
autobiographical material, an exaltation of the primitive and the common man, an appreciation of
external nature, an interest in the remote, a predilection for melancholy, and the use in poetry of
older verse forms"(Webster) some of the greatest poets where Wordsworth, Keats, and Lord Byron.
Such as I wandered lonely as a cloud, Ulysses, and She walks in beauty, are all examples of of
Romanticism. Through history poets have found different ways to use the topic of Romanticism in
their poems. Wordsworth was a prime example of such a poet he mainly focused on writing poems
about his love for nature. The overall meaning for one of Wordsworth's most renowned plays I
wandered lonely as a cloud tells a story about wordsworth wandering the countryside in amazement
at all of nature around him.according to a study done by Joseph A. Rogers about staying "Until the
poet is in communion with Nature he is "lonely as a cloud," but when his spirit connects with the
lovely sight of the daffodils, he "could not but be gay" with the "wealth the show to me had
brought." Wordsworth's mention of the "inward eye" that is the "bliss of solitude" reminds the reader
of Emerson who said that he had become "a transparent eyeball" because he felt that". (James E.
Cronin) According to the definition given to us by Webster Dictionary this poem fits the exact

Examples Of Romanticism: An Age Shaped By The Imagination...
Romanticism: An Age Shaped by the Imagination of the Individual Romantic poetry was a response
to a need for an individual voice; separate from one's government, William Wordsworth's "Preface"
to Lyrical Ballads established what it meant to be a Romantic poet or writer during that period and
"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" is Percy Bysshe Shelley's attempt to incorporate Romanticism ideals
into his own style of poetry. In the new culture of Romanticism, imagination became the subject of
many poets' work. Imagination was argued over for its basis in reality "and the common basis of our
experience in a world of concrete, measureable physical realities" (Damrosch and Dettmar 4).
Romantic poets like Wordsworth and Shelley were able to demonstrate their understandings of
imagination in their own way. Each understanding reflected the lens in which he viewed the world.
Wordsworth's poetry generally reflected themes that were optimistic, hopeful and bound in nature.
While Shelley's work centered around the human mind and tackled issues of the everyday man. The
Romanticism period was motivated by a break from monarchies across Europe and the search for
individual, "democratic and egalitarian ideals, a new era, shaped by 'the rights of man' rather than
the entailments of wealth and privilege" (Damrosch and ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
The first being, Shelley is describing his growth as an individual spiritually. The spirit follows
Shelley throughout different phases of his life, influencing his joy when the entity is present or not.
The spirit is essential to Shelley's development as an individual. He cannot move on to the next
phase successfully without its

How does William Wordsworth's poetry fit into the...
How does William Wordsworth's poetry fit into the literary tradition of Romanticism?
Q. How does William Wordsworth's poetry fit into the literary tradition of Romanticism?
A. Romantic poetry was an artistic movement of the late 18th and early
19th century. It dealt with nature, human imagination, childhood and the ability to recall emotional
memories of both happiness and sadness. Before Wordsworth began writing his revolutionary new
style of poetry, all preceding poetry had a very different style.
The reason these poems were classed as revolutionary was because he believed that romantic poetry
should describe "incidents of common life" and ordinary people and were written in deliberately
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She sees her cottage and we see how happy she is.
"and a single small cottage the only dwelling on earth that she loves" "She looks, her heart to
heaven"
This shows how happy she is at seeing her cottage, in the countryside that she loves.
However, this soon fades. The images go away and she is sad once again as she goes back to her
unhappy life in the city where she feels trapped. This fits into Romanticism by including most of the
main features. It deals with human feelings and how Susan is sad. It includes memories and the use
of imagination. It also shows probably the most important feature, which is a love of nature. We see
that Susan feels truly happy surrounded by hills and pastures.
We also see this in Wordsworth's most famous and well–known poem
"Daffodils". Wordsworth thought of his poetry as originating in
"emotion recollected in tranquillity". His memories were memories of strong feelings of happiness
brought about by something or some landscape connected to the nature.
In "Daffodils", we again see all the features that make this poem fit into the tradition of
Romanticism and Romantic Poetry.
Wordsworth describes nature and says how beautiful it is and the beauty he sees when he looks at
the daffodils.

"when all at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils".
He also uses his imagination to see the daffodils almost as human beings. He describes their
movements as, and compares

Materialism During The Romantic Poem Era
Materialism, toxic to our happiness, yet often ignored. Materialism was a pressing social issue
during the industrial revolution and the Romantic Poem Era. It was written about by many well
known Romantic poets of the time including; Blake, Shelley, Coleridge and Wordsworth. Despite
the extensive development of the world from the times of Romantic Poets to our modern day
society, materialisation is still present. This issue has it's claws sunk into our modern world, with
contemporary artists Madonna, Pink Floyd and AC DC writing about their outlooks on the subject.
Materialism demonstrated by poets during the Romantic Era is still relevant in modern society and
contemporary artist's lyrics.
The context in which these lyrics and poem were written depended on the world around the authors.
William Wordsworth, was a Romantic Era poet, "of spiritual and epistemological speculation...
concerned with the human relationship to nature" 5. Wordsworth was living in the midst of the
industrial revolution, where people felt they had to 'move forward' with the technology of the time.
They then became wrapped in consumerism and materialism, whilst moving away from nature. "The
Romantics weren't very enthusiastic about these changes–they were especially concerned about
people moving away from nature" 8. The World is Too Much with Us, written by Wordsworth,
explores societies' movement away from nature and towards the mechanical world. Whereas, the
band AC DC explores the subject of

Essay on animals in romantic poetry
animals in romantic poetry
Many Romantic poets expressed a fascination with nature in their works. Even more specific than
just nature, many poets, such as William Blake, Robert Burns, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge all
seemed fascinated with animals. Animals are used as symbols throughout poetry, and are also used
to give the reader something to which they can relate. No matter what the purpose, however, animals
played a major part in Romantic Poetry.
William Blake used animals as basic building blocks for poems such as "The Lamb" and "The
Tyger." By using these carefully selected animals to depict good and evil, the reader truly
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The sight of this louse surprises the narrator, and eventually leads him to the realization that humans
see themselves as perfect, judging all others. Through this louse he realizes what a power it would
be to see ourselves as other see us (43) and what fools we are, pretending to be God–like (46–48).
Burns uses animals in his poetry as a way of looking back at man, and seeing through another
perspective.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge based his narrative poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," around the
sanctity of nature, especially that of the albatross, a large sea bird who was a sign of good luck to the
sailors aboard the mariner's ship. After the ancient mariner inhospitably kills their good omen,
everything starts to fall apart. The mariner eventually is trapped in a solitary, never–ending penance,
telling certain people his story. The people he tells however, do not appreciate the story because it
points out their lack of spirituality, especially in the case of the wedding–guest. Coleridge, like
Blake in "The Lamb," relates animals and nature to Godliness.
In conclusion, many Romantic poets showed a fascination with nature, and especially with animals.
They used animals as symbols for many things, or for another way of viewing the world, but no
matter what the use, animals played a major part in the works of Romantic poets. Bibliography:
Blake, William. "The Lamb." The Norton Anthology of English

A Lecture On Chatterton, Oscar Wilde 's Career
At the time he delivered his lecture on Chatterton, Oscar Wilde's career was transforming. He was
transitioning from the performances he had honed during four solid years of addressing countless
audiences and was developing, with greater energy than ever before, his profile as an accomplished
author, critic, and editor. His discovery of Chatterton stands at the center of these changes.
Paying close attention to Chatterton enabled Wilde to understand that the astonishing inventiveness
of the Rowley forgeries evinced the imaginative impulse that inspired the finest forms of
imaginative literature. Exploiting the links between imagination, authenticity, and truth, Chatterton's
artistic originality arose in fabrications that conjured a literary past that historically never existed.
Such fakes, Wilde knew from his reading about Chatterton, might strike some interpreters as the
result of ungovernable, if not immoral, impulses.
In the critical essays and shorter fiction that Wilde wrote from the mid–1880s onward, he radically
inverted such interpretations. Throughout these essays, shorter fiction, and dramas, generous artistic
license, lying, and even criminal intent become–as we explain in later chapters–the foundation for
great art.
Understanding Chatterton's artistry not only informed Wilde's creative work; it also shaped his
knowledge of the Romantic poets, whose works he had long admired. If Wilde's interest in Keats
and Shelley stemmed from his university days, through

Compare To The Flea By John Donne
William Wordsworth once said, "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its
origin from emotion recollected in tranquility". This quote definitely holds true to Andrew Marvell's
poem "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne's poem "The Flea". The theme of each of these are
quite similar, these two metaphysical poets both used poetry as a way to convince their lovers to
have sex with them. Being metaphysical poets, their writing styles are indeed similar as well;
argument, union of lovers souls, abstruse terminology, and carpe diem. Although both Donne and
Marvell used the same theme and writing styles, the way they depict their arguments are extremely
different from one another.
In the poem "To His Coy Mistress" in three stanzas the speaker is convincing his female beloved to
sleep with him, he says that his lover's "coyness" and doubtfulness would be adequate if they had all
the time in the world. The speaker convinces his lady by saying that time is fleeting and in the same
manner as all other humans their time will end one day so why not make love now. In the poem
"The Flea" in three stanzas the speaker is also convincing his female beloved to sleep with him, he
uses a flea as a way to convince his lover that their bodily fluids have already came together. The
speaker declares that having sexual intercourse will not be that big of a deal being that their bodily
fluids have already came together. Towards the end of the poem the speaker claims that

The Romantic Poets By William Wordsworth
The world of the Romantic poets is so much different today than it was in the time of the Romantics,
which ranged from 1760 to 1830. Known to a friend as a "delicate adolescent" John Keats was a
studious young man who was destined to become a doctor before he discovered his passion for
poetry. While Keats was admiring nature and imagining how to help others find true joy in the
natural world as a young man, students today are much more interested in supplementing their
imagination through video games, phones, and movies versus the language of the "common man" as
William Wordsworth, one of the original Romantic poets, would say. Despite this fact, the lives of
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Through these various resources critics seemed to glean a good understanding of how Keats used
imagination in various ways. The first defines imagination as "its capacity to discover, prefigure, or
create an unseen truth or reality" (ix). Keats would have been exposed to the classics of ancient
Greece as a schoolboy. He was influenced and inspired by classic Greek art and mythology. Also, in
his travels, he was inspired by walks among the ancient architecture and ruins that gave him the
foundation for his work. Many of Keats's poems live up to this first definition but none so clear as
"Ode on a Grecian Urn." In this poem Keats creates a ethereal world from the design on the Grecian
urn. The lover's locked forever in anticipation of that first embrace: Bold Lover, never, never canst
thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not
thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair! (17–20) It is through imagination that the readers
of the poem can create an unseen reality of the lover's kiss so close but oh, so far away. Through
imagination, the feeling of self–denial and frustration can be achieved by the reader. This is only one
of the types of imagination that Waldoff presents in his Preface. The second definition emphasizes
"the imagination's capacity for sympathetic identification" (x). In "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Keats
sympathizes with the above lover encouraging him not to worry as his love is going

Why Is Emily Dickinson A Romantic Poet
Emily Dickinson a Lyrical Poet
"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves
and immortality"(6) is a quote from oneof Emily Dickinson's most famous poems. American poet,
Emily Dickinson, was known for her lyrical poetry who wrote during the American Renaissance era.
Dickinson wrote in the American Renaissance or American Romanticism time period. This era "was
called a time of excitement over human possibilities"(4). Americans believed that there was good in
people. It wa a time of emotion, spontaneity, and even sincerity. During the Romantic movement,
"writers connected back to their roots through inspiration and wisdom in nature"(4). That is exactly
what Dickinson did. She used a poetic technique with striking imagery. Dickinson greatly impacted
American romanticism.
On December 10, 1830, a little girl named Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst
Massachusetts. Her parents, "Edward Dickinson, who was a member of congress, and Emily
Norcross"(6) could have never imagined that their daughter Emily was going to become one of
America's greatest poets. She was not an only child. She had an older brother William Austin, and a
younger sister named Lavinia Norcross. Emily grew up in a Puritan household. Dickinson children
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Emily was influenced by Henry James. He poems are full of rhythm and creativity. She has many
important publications such as "Because I could not stop for death, There's a certain slant of light,
and Tell all the truth but tell it slant"(6). She never won any awards , but there is one created after
her. It is called the Emily Dickinson First Book Award. "It is designed to recognize an American
poet of a least 40 years of age who has yet to publish a first collection of poetry"(9). It is open for
any american citizen forty years or older. The winner receives a prize of 10,000

John Keats As A Romantic Poet
Introduction
John Keats was known as the perfectionist of English Poetry. He was born in London on October
31, 1795. John Keats dedicated his short life to the flawlessness of verse checked by clear
symbolism, incredible erotic offer and an endeavor to express a rationality through established
legend.in 1818 he went on a mobile visit in the Lake District. He had a very painful childhood.His
introduction and overexertion on that trek brought on the first side effects of the tuberculosis, which
finished his life.Keats' involved mother nature straight into their poetry. This individual does not
commonly talk about mother nature, however he makes use of it as a product to generate their
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Keats was a nature worshiper. His love for nature was more tenderer than that of many other
romantic poets. He stands supreme as a nature poet. He was highly inspired by the romantic poet
"Shakespeare". Keats portrayed the characteristic world with accuracy and consideration. He was
the poet of sense and their delight. His odes are most heart touching. He used nature as a gadget.
Nature vs Culture is the number one rule of romanticism. In "ode To Autumn" john Keats felt like
autumn is his season.In this lyric Keats depicts the season of Autumn. It is the season of the fog and
in this season products of the soil are matured on the joint effort with the Sun.There are fruit trees
close to the greenery development cabin. The season fills the fruits with juice.He describes autumn
as: "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! / Close bosom friend of the maturing

Tagore And Romanticism In Eastern World Literature
Being impacted by the occidental romantic poets like Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Yeats and
Coleridge, he invents a new kind of romantic world and pervades romantic principles and
sensibilities in the Eastern world literature by keeping protect the romantic genre. It can pertain the
principles, allusion and aesthetic thought both with Tagore's romanticism as well as Western
romanticism .The crucial feature of the nineteenth century romanticism based on the imagination
and fancy, therefore Edward Thompson remark, " Tagore is closely affiliated to Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Tennyson and Browning in this respect" (E. Thompson 1948).The relationship between
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Like him, Tagore narrates: The evening air is eager with the sad music of water. Ah, it calls me out
into the Dusk (Gitanjali). My heart, with its lapping waves of song, longs to caress the green world
of the sunny day (Stray Birds, R.Tagore1916).
Tagore with the romantic heart of Eastern and Western shows the inseparable bond between
romantic ism and ideology of genuine being, he in his poetic world wants to creates a transcendental
world through his romantic feeling and language, then he unfolds his childhood passion for nature

Ozymandias By Percy Bysshe Shelley, And John Keats
Throughout history, mankind has struggled to find methods of preserving the past, and have come to
two solutions; establishing museums and writing poetry. Unlike poetry, museums only record the
basic events and not individual thoughts, experiences, or emotions. The Romantic poets: William
Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats have written their poems to reconstruct this
history. Romantic poets concern themselves with memory, antiquity, and re–imagining the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" is an eighteenth–century sonnet, focusing on an ancient statue
now set in ruins. The statue– Ozymandias– tells his story throughout the poem, having once been
the "Kings of Kings" is now a "colossal Wreck". Moreover, the memory of this statue is its legacy
described in the poem. Notwithstanding its original state, the pile of rubble and decay was
previously believed to be something indestructible– meant to last forever, the "Mighty", the "Kings
of Kings". Demonstrated in this poem, is a warning that nothing lasts forever, and even the mighty
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The human tendency, described in the poem, is to foolishly "waste our powers" on material items
rather than taking time to enjoy nature. Mankind is obsessed with "getting and spending" that we
have become "out of tune" with the rest of the world to the point we do not anything of nature at all.
The majority of the poem is a tribute to nature's beauty so that others can experience it once
industrialization consumes it. The past and memory are captured in Wordsworth's poem through the
experience of nature and its destruction from a first–person perspective. The concern of preserving
the past to the Romantic poets it to pass on experiences of something beautiful that many do not take
the time to see, and will soon cease to

Romanticism versus Neoclassicism
Neoclassical and Romantic movements cover the period of 1750 to 1850. Neoclassicism showed life
to be more rational than it really was. The Romantics favoured an interest in nature, picturesque,
violent, sublime. Unlike Neo_classicism, which stood for the order, reason, tradition, society,
intellect and formal diction, Romanticism allowed people to get away from the constrained rational
views of life and concentrate on an emotional and sentimental side of humanity. In this movement
the emphasis was on emotion, passion, imagination, individual and natural diction. Resulting in part
from the liberation and egalitarian ideals of the French Revolution, the romantic movement had in
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Qualities of "reality," the divine, or divinities may be reflected in nature in Romanticism and we can
sense God or the gods through our sensing of nature.While in Neo_classicism there is a concern for
"nature"––or the way things are (and should be). This relates back to the distrust of innovation and
inherent conservatism of neoclassicism. The artistic rules of old, for instance, Pope describes as
having been "discovered, not devised" and are "Nature methodized"; so too, "Nature and Homer"
are "the same" (Essay on Criticism 88ff., 135). This belief in "nature" implies a conviction that there
is a permanent, universal way things are (and should be), which obviously entails fundamental
political and ethical commitments. The focus on natural feeling over conventional rules led to an
emphasis on the self over the earlier neoclassical emphasis on society. The individual becomes the
source of wisdom and morality, displacing the received set of rules and norms given by society. As a
result, emphasis is paced on understanding the individual's subjective state, especially as it relates to
the outside world. Works ranging from Rousseau's Confessions and Reveries of a Solitary Walker to
Wordsworth's Prelude, Coleridge's «conversation» poems, «Dejection», «Frost at Midnight», «Lime
Tree Beauty» are examples of the romantic exploration

Romantic Poets : John Keats
Romanticism is defined as a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th
century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual. It was a movement
that affected many English authors and poets. One of those poets being John Keats, who became one
of the main figures among Romantic poets. Keats only lived to be twenty–five years old, but within
those twenty–five years, he was able to write numerous poems that would now be considered as
some of the greatest pieces ever written. Keats was born in Moorgate, London, England on October
31, 1795. He was the son of Francis and Thomas Keats, who was the manager of a livery stable.
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Being only fourteen at the time, he had experienced the death of both of his parents. These events
lead to the shaping of his character. It deepened his sense of the tragic nature in human existence.
After his mother's death, he became the head of the Keats family. He was unable to complete school
because his new guardian, Richard Abbey, denied his inheritance from his grandmother and mother.
For four years, Keats became an apprentice to Thomas Hammond, a local apothecary–surgeon. He
would intensely study medicine until he moved to London in 1815. Keats became a student intern at
Guy's Hospital for two years. While interning, Keats would face the daily tragedies of suffering and
death through the endless amounts of patients. During the day time, he would dress the wounds of
dozens of patients, but at night, he would dedicate himself to literature. He would read books,
discuss literature, and write poetry. Within those two years, Keats increasingly became more
passionate about poetry. He used it as an escape from his daily unpleasantness. Life and death
became a repetitive theme throughout his writings. Keats was also introduced to Leigh Hunt, John
Reynolds, and Benjamin Haydon through Clarke. These people were able to convince that Keats
true passion was in literature, not in medicine and surgery. He leaves the hospital and publishes his
first book, Poems. The year of 1818 was a

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