Romantic literature departed from the traditional materials, form and style of preceding Neo-Classic literature, embracing innovation in these areas. Instead of the serious genres, high subjects, and elevated style and decorum of the Neo-Classic period, Romanticism heralded an era of social, political and literary revolution, new beginnings and "high possibilities". ... Both "The Lamb" (Songs of Innocence) and its contrary "The Tyger" ("Songs of Experience") invite the reader to consider God and creation in different ways. ...

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Pope has succeeded in creating a highly effective form of satirical comment, one which seems quite paradoxical in that it could have made the Augustan reader laugh or smile whilst the true nature of their ways was being made clear to them, one can only marvel at such a degree of skill and artifice in a poet. ... They are described, for example, as "the light militia of lower sky" , an obvious reference to military formations that would have been a common feature of the classic epic genre. ...

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