The references to nature are evident in all of these poems, but the most clear is in Tintern Abbey. ... Dejection, is a poem about the streaming example of the poet's way of showing emotions. This poem is about Coleridge himself. In this poem he talks about the difference between having joy and being pure at heart versus being proud and sensual. ... This poem is about a girl named Madeline who performs the ritual of St. ...

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The first stanza of the poem expresses the poet's strong passion to his beliefs. ... In this poem, Wordsworth gives the readers a mental image of how beautiful nature can be. ... Throughout the poem the position of the moon is expressed. ... " and the use of an exclamation mark at the end of the poem. ... By looking at the poems tone, image, and diction, it can be seen that William Wordsworth poem "Strange Fits of Passion have I known" is that of a romantic one....

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In the poem nature takes up a major portion of the poem as he describes the dream world of Kubla Khan. Coleridge gives a vivid image of the poem while he says, "he was reading and when he fell asleep under the influence of opium, which he states that he dreamt the poem, where he then composed the two or three hundred lines in his sleep without any consciousness of effort". Coleridge adds that upon awakening wrote down the lines he remembered from his dream, but was interrupted while writing the lines to the poem and that he could never recollect the rest of the poem. In which the poem was n...

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This also happens to be one of my favorite poems. This poem's plot is simple. ... It's like he is creating a painting not a poem. ... Also he wasn't alone while writing the poem, his wife, Dorothy, helped tweak the poem for him, and added the last few lines of the poems, which are one of my favorite lines of the poem: "They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with daffodils." ... Overall this poem is very peaceful and gives off a feeling of tranquility. ...

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For example, in line 3 the poem states, "Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep". ... In Blake's poem he makes the reader question what he is truly saying. ... This style of writing totally contradicts Wordsworth poem. Blake goes around the point of the poem rather than straight to the point like Blake. ... Poems are a particular way to form a closer communication between the reader and the poet. ...

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A poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley is called Ozymandias. ... This line of the poem is challenging the power of the king metaphorically. ... Bysshe has done this in this poem by challenging the power of the king. Due to the poet challenging the world around him it makes the poem romantic. ... A poem that also uses an exotic location is Kubla Khan....

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How about the poems? Talking about the poems, the reader can recognize the poems of Edgar Allan Poe are romantic. ... Analyzing Poe's poem, the reader will see how he put all elements of Romanticism in the poem The Raven. ... He describes the scene of the poem, which was in the break of December. ... The other element that can be in his poem is unusual of the raven. ...

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How about the poems? Talking about the poems, the reader can recognize the poems of Edgar Allan Poe as being of the Romantic Era. ... Analyzing Poe's poem, the reader will see how he put all elements of Romanticism in the poem The Raven. ... The other element that can be found in this poem is the unusualness of the raven. ... Poe describes his soul through the poem with the deep emotions of sorrow and sadness. ...

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During the Romantic period writers shared common themes which they used in their stories and poems. ... Many of the poems written during the Romantic period showed how nature is good and is in control. In William Cullen Bryant's poem, "To a Waterfowl," he illustrated how life's path is nature's path and some higher "Power" is the power of the human itself. ... In his poem, "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls," he compared a traveler's life to the manner of the waves. ... From the aforementioned examples the themes of Romanticism and how they are illustrated in some ...

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I have chosen to compare and contrast two poems from the Age of Realism and the Romantic Era. The first poem I have chosen is The Lotos-Eaters by Lord Alfred Tennyson, and the second poem I have chosen is On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats. ... When contrasting the two poems it is easy to take notice of the length of both poems. ... Other than the formatting of the poems, the given stories are different. ... These two poems are connected by the finding of new places, whether it is within oneself or a new land. ...

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His use of vivid imagery depicts his poem into an illusion of reality. ... Wordsworth would soon only find himself using this language later that has made his poems esteemed. ... In his poems, he talks about the simplicity and beauty of nature in which he plans to preserve this image of a pristine nature. ... In the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Wordsworth wrote this poem in April 15, 1802. ... It was the Wordsworth uniqueness in creating vivid poems that made him a place as a legendary poet. ...

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His poems have a certain flow, which makes them easy to read and follow. The poem that I have selected is entitled To Sleep. The title of the poem is perfect for this selection because it creates a kind of dull setting. Keats starts off the poem by saying "O soft embalmer of the still midnight". ... His poems create feelings that I could connect with and he writes about things that people could relate to. ...

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Emotional boundaries were torn down with his poems. ... One very sweet poem; "The Lamb", Blake meant to give the reader a sense of comfort and joy. ... This poem was written to show the other side to that of "The Lamb." ... This poem was most likely used to teach the young children about the darker side of the world at that time. The tiger represents Satan and throughout this poem the reader is getting a good dose of the more evil aspect of the world. ...

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John Keats" poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" describes his thoughts of a shapely Grecian urn painted with images of people, nature and other Greek aspects. ... At first, when reading the poem, the tone seems cheerful and flowery. ... However, when the reader digs deeper, they realize how depressing the poem actually sounds. ... Much of the poem emphasizes the ideas viewed by romantics at the time. ... The use of multiple questions in the poem also shows Keats" genius and search for the truth. ...

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In his poem, "Flame-Heart", Claude McKay expresses his longing for his homeland in a romantic fashion with non-racial themes. ... "Flame-Heart" is a poem in the traditional romantic style, resembling the works of Shelley and Wordsworth in its fashion. ... "Purple Apples", "doves brown the fields," "poinsettia's red" and other such descriptions permeate the poem almost to the point of painting it with color. ... The rhyme scheme of the poem is a-b-a-b nearly throughout the entire second stanza, which is loosely styled as a sonnet. ... The entire poem betrays the innocence of childhood....

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The poem conforms to romantic ideals with the use of simple word choice, and the stress on the beauty of nature. The poem starts off on a fine spring morning. ... "Resolution and Independence" was written in 1807, and incorporates many romantic ideas in the poem. For example, Wordsworth uses simple diction, meaning the poem is written with many simple words. ... The poem teaches the reader the important lesson about learning from others. ...

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This is clearly demonstrated in his poem, "Ode on Intimations of Immortality." ... The language he uses in this particular poem is a little more formal than that of many of his other poems, yet remains still much less formal than that of the previous era. ... Another Romantic trait found throughout this poem is that of descriptive passages that appeal to the senses. ... The realization of this loss of purity and impulsiveness caused Wordsworth to express his grief in the poem. ... The last vision expressed in this poem is probably the most obvious, the reverence of nature. ...

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Wordsworth begins his poem specifically stating that AFive years have past; five summer, with the length of five long winter!... The poem begins with a visual scene of a silent ministry of the frost, the cry of the owl, and the sleeping infant. ... Poems by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and John Keats portray different ideas of lost origin. ... Throughout the years Romantic poems have been written by different romantic poets who created different types of themes. The variety of themes dealing with lost origin allows people to write more romantic poems. ...

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Such insensibility is, for the speaker of the poem, a sad sight. The poem itself follows the rules of the Italian or Petrarchan sonnet as it contains an octave and a sestet. The poem is an iambic pentameter with the rhyming scheme of ABBA ABBA CDCDCD. While there are a lot of iambs in the poem, there are also several types of beats that give the poem a sense of variety, giving way to some exceptions to the iambic pentameter. ... As in most Italian sonnets, the beginning of the sestet changes the direction of the poem. ...

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Masters paternal grandmother had a great influence on his poem "Lucinda Matlock."" ... Masters used irony in the poem when he described the life of Lucinda Matlock in a humorous way. ... In the poem he demonstrated the simplicity of Lucinda Matlock's life when she talked about how her life was mostly cooking, cleaning, and sewing. ... This quote expresses the theme of the poem. Masters use of symbols was prevalent throughout the poem. ...

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Bryant also expresses his positive encounters of life providing readers a life lesson in his poem, To a Waterfowl that even though one might not be able to fulfill the desires of his/her passion, as difficult it may seems, life goes on. ... Throughout this poem, Bryant writes this poem to talk about how lonely the bird is that is flying a great distance of the ocean without settling a path, but a higher power (God) is guiding the bird without it questioning its destined path.  ... By analyzing this poem, Bryant presents ambiguity within the romantic text by purposely allowing the reader to de...

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The romantic idea is demonstrated throughout the poem through its subject matter, structure and literary devices. This poem fits perfectly into Romanticism as Wordsworth has rejected the classical poetry and placed the importance of true emotion above of society and intellect. ... The poem is a lyrical ballad, it was experimental poetry that defied the traditions. The structure of the poem is in six quatrains with it being constructed with four iambs per line and a rhyme scheme of ABAB. ... The romantic values are all present within this poem, as Wordsworth addresses his individual experience...

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His body of work, which included stories, tales, and poems, is filled with many different qualities and characteristics. ... Later, he wrote his most popular poem "The Raven" in hopes that the result would be a creepy poem that is very clear of the symbolism he wanted to use. "The Raven" was one of his most popular poems that he wrote and was published in 1845. In this poem of his, he reflected a lot of his life and what he has been through into it. He writes and vents his pain through the poem while he was mourning the death of his wife, Virginia. ...

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Towards the end of the poem, there is a focus on his emotions towards Lucy's death, but it is seemingly slight. ... In the first two lines of the poem, Wordsworth quickly identifies Lucy as already belonging to nature. ... Through his form of the poem, Wordsworth accentuates this divine nature of Nature. His poem itself involves three of the many Christian "divine numbers." ... The number six is also employed in this poem through the number of lines per stanza. ...

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Because the poem set on a beach, Longfellow describes the setting as "...sea-sands damp and brown..." and "...the little waves, with their soft, white hands." ... Lastly, this poem reflects on its romantic beliefs when it shows Longfellow's quest for some higher truth in the natural world. ... In conclusion, the poem, "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls," deals with Romanticism in copious aspects of the author's ideas and thoughts....

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