temporally to the Romantic period (1780-1830). Romantic writing is commonly identified with some key elements‚ which concern imagination‚ nature‚ symbolism and myth (although there have been writers of this period who were not as ‘mainstream’). William Wordsworth has been characterised as a canonical author of Romantic Poetry in that his work is highly attached to the notion of Nature and plenty of reference is made to it. Approaching a piece of literary work‚ however‚ from this perspective is very restraining
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Essay Supplementary to Preface William Wordsworth (1815) WITH the young of both sexes‚ Poetry is‚ like love‚ a passion; but‚ for much the greater part of those who have been proud of its power over their minds‚ a necessity soon arises of breaking the pleasing bondage; or it relaxes of itself;—the thoughts being occupied in domestic cares‚ or the time engrossed by business. Poetry then becomes only an occasional recreation; while to those whose existence passes away in a course of fashionable
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force or spirit that lies only within a man’s inner self became apparent in the works of Romantic poets. In one of his poems‚ William Wordsworth seeks this supreme force as he cries out‚ “Wisdom and Spirit of the universe!/ Thou Soul‚ that art the Eternity of thought!” (“Influence of Natural Objects”‚ lines 1-2‚ RPO). He personifies the universe
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beauty and aesthetic pleasure. While Wordsworth and Coleridge often write about nature in itself‚ Shelley tends to invoke nature as a sort of supreme metaphor for beauty‚ creativity‚ and expression. This means that most of Shelley’s poems about art rely on metaphors of nature as their means of expression: the West Wind in "Ode to the West Wind" becomes a symbol of the poetic faculty spreading Shelley’s words like leaves among mankind‚ and the skylark in "To a Skylark" becomes a symbol of the purest‚
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English 61: Some Concepts to Consider I Romantic Personae A. Wordsworth: close to Nature ‚ family and friends. 1. Believes we can only hope to retain in middle age some of the energy and enthusiasm for Nature we enjoyed in youth. Nature takes the place of Truth and Beauty in Plato’s philosophy of metempsychosis and anamnesis. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us‚ our life’s Star‚ Hath had elsewhere its setting‚ And cometh from afar: Not in
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Term Paper Submitted By: Afridiu Topic: Changing characteristics of poetry from Romantics to Modern Abstract: The characteristics of poetry changed with the changing of eras and literary periods. Romantics have their own features and writing style. Nature and beauty play very important role in Romantic poetry. Victorian poetry is different from Romantics
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The Romantic Phenomenon with Human Reformation- CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF THE POEM ‘ODE TO THE WEST WIND’‚ WRITTEN BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY- (After having a straight answer‚ as referred to many links‚ this time I thought let the introductory mode be something different before to start of the same eternal truth of the answer-decorum.) “Make me thy lyre‚ ev’n as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep
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German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Originally it was thought that a romantic writer is someone who reinforces his or her own uniqueness through their work. In a preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads (1800)‚ by English poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge it has been quoted that romantic poems were a language of men in a state of vivid sensation‚ that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted‚ which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart [1].
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both generated by the same human craving for freedom from traditions and tyranny. The Romantic Movement revives the poetic ideals of love‚ beauty‚ emotion‚ imagination‚ romance and beauty of Nature. Keats celebrates beauty‚ Shelley adores love‚ Wordsworth glorifies nature Byron idealizes humanism‚ Scott revives the medieval lore and Coleridge amalgamates supernatural. As a result‚ the Romantic Movement revolts against the ideals‚ principles‚ intellectualism‚ aristocracy and technicality of Augustan
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