He is neither too melancholic like Arnold nor too optimistic like Robert Browning, another contemporary, in terms of the tone, mood and theme of his poetry. ... Through the analysis of some sections of this poem, it can be taken into account the relations to the romantic vision of nature and religion in Wordsworth's poem. ... Many nineteenth-century critics affirm that the romantic poetry tended towards egotism and excessive subjectivity, instead the Victorian project found literary and artistic means of bridging a series of what they considered to be binary oppositions such as: self a...

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• Grade Level: High School

He also wrote An Introduction to Metaphysics, Poetry, Language, Thought, and On the Way to Language. ... This piece was supposed to have two views, one was through an analysis of the human race so that a new understanding of time, truth, and faith. ...

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Another significant influence that Keating had on his students, and Neil especially, was the teaching to value art and poetry as the fundamental purpose of life as a human. "We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for," he announces to them in one of the most memorable classroom scenes in the film. This teaching affects Neil especially as his dramatic affinities make him naturally attuned to poetry, whe...

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