1. Theme of Children in Blakes Poems
They revolted against the artificial declamatory speeches and formal language of the neoclassical age. ... The main theme of "Ode on Intimations of Immortality" is searching for comfort or peace while realizing the loss of childhood innocence and lack of constraint. Wordsworth saw the purity and innocence in children and illustrated it in lines 63 through 67. ... Wordsworth also saw, however, how this innocence and purity was corrupted by civilization. ... Stanza VII continues illustrating this corruption and loss of innocence by describing some of the roles that the child will play throughout...
In the second part he questions his memories because of age, he is not sure the feeling is the same. ... He first describes the innocence of his childhood, then his disparity and vanity of old age and lastly, the purity of his sister. ... Wordsworth used it to express innocence and purity. ...
America produced many renown authors during the age of American romanticism. ... These included "youth (or childlike qualities); innocence; a love of nature and a distrust of town life, [and] a corresponding uneasiness with women (Arpin, et al 120.)" ... The Romantic period celebrated man's freedom with nature, virtue found in innocence, and intuitiveness over the rational. ... His achievements include: the first successful American historical romance in the vein of Sir Walter Scott (The Spy, 1821); the first sea novel (The Pilot, 1824); the first attempt at a fully researched...
Only there, he experiments the feeling of love toward Beatrice; and there he discovers the truth of Beatrice's innocence and sincerity. ... Giovanni is so subjugated by Beatrice's beauty and innocence during their meetings, in the garden, that he does not even notice the purple print on his hand (left by Beatrice) until he goes back to his room. ...