William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Copper and Edgar Allen Poe were major contributors to the Romantic Movement. ... A theme that is used in nearly every literary piece is nature, which Romantic poets utilize to convey their overall message to their readers. ... He helps get the ball rolling for the Romantic period while acting as a standard for many aspiring poets for years to come. ... "To him who in the love of Nature holds communion with her visible forms, she speaks a various language; for his gayer hours she has a voice of gladness, and a smile and eloquence of beau...

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Discuss Representations of Love In One or More Poems Read in Class Many different poets throughout history have represented love, perhaps the most common subject matter chosen in poetry, in many different ways, and many of these ideas certainly do not conform to what the current generation would consider love', mostly due to the advent of sexual equality and equal rights. ... In the first section the voice the poet chooses to use (it is never clear if he speaks as himself or if the poem is intended as a satire) very traditional, romantic language and is complimentary throughout, su...

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Whether you refer to his poem as "A Song" or "Ask Me No More," Carew revolutionizes the love poem and redefines beauty in such a way that the recipient of these words could care less about what the poem is called simply because it would be just as romantic with any other title. ... In his endeavor to redefine beauty in a love poem, Carew plays with a combination of words in each stanza that help to paint a deeper picture that a simple simile would not be able to accomplish. ... The phoenix could be taken literally as a phoenix, like the other objects of comparison, or it co...

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Both "Strange fits of passion I have known" and "The Tyger" were written during the "Romantic Period", generally taken to extend from the outbreak of the French Revolution (1789), through the first three decades of the Nineteenth Century. Romantic literature departed from the traditional materials, form and style of preceding Neo-Classic literature, embracing innovation in these areas. ... Nature, landscape, vision and prophecy were all-important to this new breed of Romantic poets, but they expressed their beliefs in different ways. ... Wordsworth had a great love of nature and his depic...

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This use of diction imbues the books with the adoration and love that is typical of the exchanges between lovers. ... Norton creates this tone through her use of rhyme and punctuation, which is used to reduce the tempo creating a languescent response, and her gentle use of diction where personification and words such as: "tranquil" and "musings" produce a romantic effect. ...

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With the man devoting himself and eternity to his love in the first part, and with descriptions of their love being literally destroyed by time in the second section, there seems to be definate shock tactics being used within the narration. ... This descriptive proposal leaves imagery of both intimacy and penetration suggesting the physical act of love. ... Marvell successfully recreates the myth of love as a symbol of eternal affection in the first part of "To His Coy Mistress". The narrator in this stanza proves to be the typical lover showering a woman with romantic remarks of his admira...

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Marvell then uses a biblical allusion that overstates his love for her in lines eight through ten, "loved you ten years before the Flood, and you should, if you please, refuse till the conversion of the Jew." ... The next lines state, "My vegetable love should grow vaster than empires, and more slow." His "vegetable love" is referring to his growing physical love for her and by using "vaster than empires- shows the extreme extend his love is for her yet it grows slowly. ... The way the speaker goes from romantically praising her eyes to going to her body is an attempt to flatter her. ... The s...

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The persona announces that "had we but world enough time, this coyness lady were no crime", essentially denoting the fact that if he had enough time his desire would be to court and love his mistress for eternity. ... He uses romantic words such as "long loves day" to create a luring, enticing image his of the personas intentions of courting her for long periods of time. The alliteration enforces this argument of his overflowing love by hyperbolically stating that he would love her, "Ten years before the flood, till the conversion of the Jews". ... It is lifeless...

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Barnard (1999) asserts that Keats is one of the great English romantic poets, whose prime belief was in art and beauty. ... These short romantic poems can be seen to be linked both structurally and thematically by a sequence of closely related problems and, as an effect, show Keats both at his most vulnerable and possessing the literary genius he has subsequently been accredited with. ... Keats has been "half in love with easeful death", and even through his rapturous praise of the Nightingale shows that this death would be seemingly more welcome than ever. ... The poem allows Keats to "transc...

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The beginning of the poem and the title manipulates readers' into thinking it is about a romantic encounter. The narrator recalls his tender moments with Porphyria who places his arm around her waist and murmurs how much she loves him. ... As if the narrator's actions are not shocking enough, he nonchalantly continues telling his horrific tale: "And I untightened next the tress/About her neck; her cheek once more/Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss" (46-48), proudly recalling kissing her corpse and expresses his belief that by killing Porphyria, he had granted "her ...

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After the death of the two pigeons, Rosetti ends the second four-line quatrain with a mournful, prayer-like statement: "So farewell life and love and pleasures new." ... Because of their love and care for each other, they cannot be forced to part from each other even to save themselves. ... Never having married and enduring several failed relationships, it is not presumptive to assume that this poem stems from Rosetti's reflections upon her own love life. In line 11, the speaker makes the connection between their dream and reality by saying "I thought I turned towards you to weep; but yo...

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Wordsworth expresses to us that we are filthy animals and have betrayed nature; we have taken our love away from it and given it to getting and spending. ... Like many other Romantic writers, he saw in Nature an emblem of god or the divine and his poetry often celebrates the beauty and spiritual values of the natural world. ...

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Babbitt conveyed the ideas of anti-Romantic attitude to literature into young Eliot's mind. ... His first important publication, and the first masterpiece of modernism in English, was The Love Song of J. ...

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