Romantic Poets: Wordsworth, Shelly, and Keats. The Romantic poets are recognized for the love of nature. ... Three romantic poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelly, have expressed their love nature and have used it to express values and experience. ... The romantic poets believed that children are closer to god then adults. ... These three romantic poets found the relationship to nature and life and expressed it in their poetry....

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Wordsworth was a great literary figure of the Romantic period. The Romantic Movement began in the eighteenth century against the neoclassical society during an age of revolution. ... The romantic idea is demonstrated throughout the poem through its subject matter, structure and literary devices. ... This simple form of verse and the simplicity of language is revolutionary, fitting with the romantic notion. ... In both stanza three and four romantic imagery is revealed. ...

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Romantic poets belonging to that era challenged rationalism in areas such as religion, science, and philosophy. ... Romantic poets valued subjective thinking over rational thinking. ... Coleridge's mention of "the Almighty Spirit" also indicates the poem's Romantic orientation. ... Also, the fact that Whitman related his observations from an individual perspective reflects a romantic influence. Whitman blends reminiscence with a sense of purpose in the poem as well, basically ennobling it, again reflecting Romantic influence. ...

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It also shows the social criticisms or protests that the author enjoyed, as well as the other Romantic's did. ... A supernatural element also characteristic of the Romantic Poet is evident in England 1819 with the emergence of the "Phantom" in the last stanza. ... Kubla Khan is an amazing example of imaginative thought associated so closely with the Romantic Poets. ... Both the supernatural and the past were strong themes for the Romantic Poets. ... These characteristics of the Romantics have been echoed in the song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. ...

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Though the Romantic period specialised in poetry, there also appeared a few prose-writers-Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey who rank very high. ... Whereas many eighteenth century prose-writers depended on assumptions about the suitability of various prose styles for various purposes which they shared with their relatively small but sophisticated public; writers in the Romantic period were rather more concerned with subject matter and emotional expression than with appropriate style. ... There was also an indication of a growing distrust of the sharp distinction between matter and manner which wa...

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In Romantic times, for example, lyric poetry differed from epic and drama, for it was supposed to be a language of feelings. ... The Romantics, for instance, thought of poetry as full of life and feelings. ... Another great poet of Romantic times - Samuel Taylor Coleridge qualified poetry as "the best words in the best order-, while Percy Bysshe Shelley defined it as "the expression of the Imagination-. ...

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In Romantic times, for example, lyric poetry differed from epic and drama, for it was supposed to be a language of feelings. ... The Romantics, for instance, thought of poetry as full of life and feelings. ... Another great poet of Romantic times - Samuel Taylor Coleridge qualified poetry as "the best words in the best order-, while Percy Bysshe Shelley defined it as "the expression of the Imagination-. ...

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Romantic poetry was initially a reaction against the Neo-classicist form of poetry, which was strongly rooted in the structure laid down by the Greeks and Romans in Classic or Classicist poetry. Romantic poets disliked this tendency of looking to the past, they were well aware of industrial world growing around them and they tended to look to the world of nature for there inspiration. ... This state, in the eyes of the Romantic, is represented by nature. ... The nature presented in Romantic poetry is viewed as an escape from the ugly, over-bearing industrial world that the poets believed stifl...

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I have chosen to compare and contrast two poems from the Age of Realism and the Romantic Era. ... The hidden meanings woven into the works of that of a Romantic author can deter one from allowing their emotions to bond with the words. ...

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John Keats was a respected English writer from the Romantic Era, specifically known for his poetry. His poems embody the essence of the romantic time period, and the typical fashion of poets during this point in history. ... Literature from the Romantic Era emphasizes originality and a love for nature. "One of the most popular themes of Romantic poetry was country life, otherwise known as pastoral poetry. ... The English Romantic poets were particularly drawn to medievalism and mythology. ...

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John Keats: The Tragic Life of a Romantic Poet John Keats was born in 1795 and wouldn't live to see his twenty-sixth birthday. ... The life of John Keats, who is credited as being one of great Romantic poets, was in itself a tragedy, beginning with the death of his parents when he was a young child, the death of his brother Tom, and finally the death and demise of Keats himself. ... Even with the tragic losses of two parents, his brother Tom, and finally the sickness and death of Keats himself, he still had the power to emerge as one of the great Romantic poets of British literature. ...

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William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Copper and Edgar Allen Poe were major contributors to the Romantic Movement. Most of the romantic writings included emotions, imagination and "reveled in nature." (220) One poet and poem that applies not only nature, but life and death to emphasize its message, is William Cullen Bryant and his renowned poem "Thanotopsis". 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 ...

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This is the central creed of the great Romantic poets Rene Wellek (refrece) The Romantic period was therefore characterised by a return to nature and feelings. ... Romantic poets were also very concerned with the world around them and the people in it. Most of the Romantic poets, or poets influenced by Romanticism, lodged a sort of social protest within their poetry. ... Hopkins's questioning and departure from Romantic views can be seen when contrasted with other Romantic poetry. ... So although Hopkins was influenced by the Romantics he was a supporter and preacher of Catholicism...

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Romantic poets represent the lost origin in many different ways. ... At the end of the poem, he speaks of his child=s future which fuses with his Romantic interpretation of natures and its role in the child=s imagination. ... 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. This process of generation after generation of romantic poetry makes the poets unique and infamous for their talents in history. ...

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Ozymandias is seen as romantic because it challenges the power of kings. ... Romantic poets challenged the world around them. ... Due to the poet challenging the world around him it makes the poem romantic. ...

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William Wordsworth Romantic Poetry started in the late 18th century. ... Romantics became explicit with pantheism or pan-psychism, the feeling that soul pervades over all matter (http://members.aol.com/heraklit1/poets.htm ). William Wordsworth, an unrivaled poet in the world of romantic poetry. ... It was his work that has earned him a place among the romantic poets ...

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William Wordsworth was one of the strongest romantic poets in the English Language of his time. ... This Romantic period known as the Romantic Era or as other may know it as the Romantic period was at its peak in the period from 1800 to 1850. During this romantic era many writers sought to unite the tranquility of nature and the inner emotional world of men. ... This poem is distinctive to any other romantic poems because it depicts a woman with the poets changing perspective toward this striking woman. ... William Wordsworth's aim for the romantic age during the 1800's was to create...

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However, the Romantic in Keats saw past their deaths; he saw past it to find love. ... Keats is different from other Romantics in the way, the way he embraces the negative aspects of life. ... The true Romantic, the optimist comes out in this poem. ... I do consider myself a Romantic. ... Where laughing is better than saying nothing about the dry humor of a bored romantic. ...

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One of the more popular war poets is Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), who began his career as a poet sometime before the War, and whose earlier style of writing, observed in poems like 'Sonnet Written At Teigmouth, On A Pilgrimage To Keats's House' (1911) was derived from that the Romantic ideology, which stated that poetry 'should be personal (to the point of appearing confessional), sincere (which meant limitations on satire and humor) and richly loaded with imagery' (Purkis 82.) ... The poem shows Owen's individualism through his subversion of popular' imager...

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"Ode on a Grecian Urn" captures many aspects that relate to Keats" own life and the romantic era. ... Much of the poem emphasizes the ideas viewed by romantics at the time. ... This contrast also illustrates the sense of balance, a common aspect of romantic works. ...

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The Reflections of Nature in Ode on a Grecian Urn, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey During the Romantic movement, many poets write about nature thematically. ... In Ode on a Grecian Urn, Keats expresses a love for art and nature, which are two major themes of the Romantic period. ... Romantic writers love to use nature in their works. ...

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Both the Romantics and Victorians addressed the idea of preserving the perfect moment and Keats' "Ode to a Grecian Urn" is one such perfect moment captured in art. ... This introduces a typical Romantic notion that there are mistakes in the real world, things do not always run smoothly and hence this mental flight into the strong, perfect world of the imagination. ... It was a common Romantic belief that beauty is the path to truth. ...

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John Keats was an English Romantic poet who died in England at the age of 25 of tuberculosis. ... Like many of other Romantic poems, Keats explores the beauty of nature, this time by appreciating the immortality of the nightingale's song for it has been heard throughout the ages. ...

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John Keats was a major part in romantic poetry in the early 1800's. 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 sta...

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"Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a romantic ode, a dignified but highly lyrical (emotional) poem in which the author speaks to a person or thing absent or present. ... The romantic ode was at the pinnacle of its popularity in the nineteenth century. ... The romantic ode evolved from the ancient Greek ode, written in a serious tone to celebrate an event or to praise an individual. ...

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