Themes Of The Romantic Period

Four Major Themes of the Romantic Period in Europe During the romanticism, writers, poets and free spirited humans created four major themes of their writing. The four major themes of Romanticism are emotion and imagination, nature, and social class. Romantic writers were influenced greatly by the evolving and changing world around them. During 1889 they were striving to remember nature and its impact on the world as they experienced the industrial revolution in Europe and the moving of families to cities as factories were being built. As the lower class citizens revolted in France in 1889, poets and authors alike were influenced by the leveling out of social class’s write they expressed in their works. Emotion and imagination were influenced by the daily struggles and wonders people face in their life. Romanticism has four main traits or ideas that are prevalent in the works from 1789 until 1832. One major theme in the Romantic period that two poems relate to is nature. One selection that illustrates nature is Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Rime of the Ancient Mariner demonstrates why humans should respect nature because when the Mariner kills the albatross, the …show more content…
Because of the French Revolution, writers such as Robert Burns and Percy Shelley displayed their opinion that man should be equal no matter his monetary value, it should be based on character. Shelley even displays a sense of rebellion over the rich. Because of the Industrial Revolution, authors such as Burns and Coleridge write about nature being wild and free. The thoughts of nature being untamed keep them sane while living in the populated cities filled with factories. Burns and Keats wrote about their imagination and emotions while looking at a woman and an urn. Romantics have an optimistic outlook on the