His belief that creation was impossible without the insertion of forms of discipline provoked him to repeatedly revise his poems. ... This is also made apparent in both Petit poemes en prose and Le spleen de Paris, a collection of prose poems in which he seeks a mysterious sort of beauty in the ugliness of the modern city. ... A vast amount of his poetry refers to some sort of lost paradise. His poem, La chevelure, exemplifies such a fact as it recalls brief moments of pure happiness in distant tropical locations. ... He has this notion reflected in many of his poems including Une martyre, i...

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Also her husband Percy Shelley wrote a number of poems and was greatly into the Romantic Movement. Shelley includes references to Percy Shelley's poems and other Romantic poems such as the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Milton's 'Paradise Lost', the references to these show to the reader the Romantic view of the importance of emotions and the imagination, and also the importance of the individual. ... This is a strong reference to Paradise Lost, as the creature was the first of Frankenstein's creation he should be his Adam, but f...

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