Romanticism is a type of poetry, which is usually expressed through writing. ... Romanticism is a way of life that many people cling to, to find their "inner self" and live spiritually. ... The first thing we did when we began learning about Romanticism is we read 4 Poems, all in which the authors showed the same value of Romanticism. ... In the poem the author compares his lonely life to that of a bird of on its journey of life. The next is a poem where the author compares a flower in the woods to a human, and says how beautiful they both are, and how they need no excuse for being. ...

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British Authors • Joseph Addison: o 1672-1719, English essayist, poet, and statesman. ... • William Beckford: o 1760-1844, English author. ... Although he exerted a great influence on English romanticism , Blake defies characterization by school, movement, or even period. ... • James Boswell: o 1740-95, Scottish author, b. ... • Jonathan Swift: o 1667-1745, English author, b. ...

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They were all great poets from Romanticism. ... Up to this point in the poem, it seems as if the author is trying to convey the message that change is bad and brings about sadness and gloom. ... This hint at nature reinforces how this poem is a part of Romanticism. ... These three authors bring truth to this thought. ... The authors may have passed on, but their works will live on and be appreciated by many generations that follow. ...

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The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth basically encapsulates the definition of Romanticism in 19th century poetry as a result of Wordsworth adherence in the writing of this poem to most every aspect involved in the formation of that definition. ... The Lime-Tree Bower My Prison This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison by Samuel Coleridge exemplifies Romanticism in the way that the whole of the poem involves an idealization of nature. ... Crossing Brooklyn Ferry demonstrates romanticism by way of a liberal expression of emotion in conjunction with observations made while Whitman experienced...

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So brightly and effervescent were the scene that the author personalized the daffodils as dancers. ... At the beginning of the poem, the author begins in a melancholic mood. ... Moreover, the author compared per se with a cloud. ... In addition, Wordsworth was born in the Romanticism Period, which is known as the age of disillusionment and loneliness in England. ... Composed in the Romanticism Period, in which people were trying to escape the disillusion world, the poem "Daffodils" made influence on the society....

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Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century 11. ... Influenced by such schools of thought as English romanticism, Neoplatonism, and Hindu philosophy. ... Emily Dickinson- Heralded as one of the most gifted American writers, Emily Dickinson authored nearly 2,000 poe...

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His creative writing altered and extended Romanticism and Gothism. Although not a traditional Romantic such as Emerson and Thoureau, who put emotion over reason and nature above all, there is a melancholic strain to romanticism that applies directly to Poe. ... Although the literary merits of Poe's writings were greatly disputed during his lifetime, they are now considered to be timeless tales of forgotten lore, and are regarded as literary tools for some of the greatest authors in modern history. ... The author and poet lived a lonely life filled with pain and deceit; as a result hi...

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The poem has four quatrains in which author describes a relationship between a young boy and his father. ... In poem "Those Winter Sundays" has romanticism, which evokes tone of nostalgia for a childhood. ... On the other hand author of the poem suggested that a speaker is critical to behavior of his father. ...

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The Great American Poets During the nineteenth century, many new authors blossomed in America. ... A major influence included English Romanticism. ... When William Lloyd Garrison caught a glimpse at a poem, written in the newspaper in which he published, he became determined to find that anonymous author. ... He was one of the founders of the Atlantic Monthly, and also the author of the widely read series titled The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. ... Many authors look to these idols for inspiration and encouragement when writing their poems. ...

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In Floyd Dells criticism of Masters, he stated,"œIf we share, as most of us do, the cheerful American romanticism in which the disturbing fact of death cannot be said to have any place, it is something of a triumph for the author's art to have made us feel, even if only for a little while, that it is toward death that life leads, and that this is the final secret of life...

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Although it is defined a poetry of fragments, there is throughout the poem a theme linearity, due to the cycle technique used by Tennyson in order to illustrate certain fundamental laws behind human time and natural time, nevertheless it is a non-linearity structure that prevails in the poem, reflecting the author's concept of non-linearity time. ... Anyway, in section 22 it is described a sort of experience of the author and Hallam that consists in a fall out of natural or seasonal time, they coexist with the natural passing of the seasons and at the end this cyclical time changes int...

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"She Walks in Beauty," The Analysis She Walks in Beauty is a poem in which the author speaks of the physical beauty of a woman; a female who the author encountered. ... This occurred at an event attended by the author where he meet his cousin which is the woman the author speaks about in the poem. ... The author speaks of her fragile being. ... The author seeks his own innocence through her beauty; this is the author's definition of ideal woman. ... The tone perceived in Byron's poem is of romanticism inspired by the woman's beauty; and its theme is of the immediate impression o...

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All of Cummings's poetry attests to the author's never ending search for fresh metaphors and new means of expression through creative placement of words on the page, new word constructions, and unusual punctuation and capitalization. ... The thematic concerns of Cummings's first three volumes of verse are repeated in is 5 (1926), in which the author also included satiric and anti-war pieces, notably "my sweet old etcetera" and "i sing of Olaf glad and big," a poem about the death of a conscientious objector. ... In his late verse--XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950), 95 Poems (1958)...

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This poem was written by John Keats, a prominent poet during the time between 1750 and 1850- the period of "Romanticism". This era of rebellion from authors around the world was a reaction to and rebellion against rationalism and the age of reason, the time which preceded this revolution. The authors of this time felt the need to break away from the formality and intellectuality of the art in this period, and also the malice caused by industrialisation. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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