Romantic hero

“No Second Troy” is a poem by W.B. Yeats about his love relationship with a beautiful Irish woman called Maud Gonne. The poem is one of the greatest literary love stories of the twentieth century. It indicates how beauty can cause a tragic distraction with the reference to Helen of Troy. “Leda and the Swan” is another poem written by W.B. Yeats, it retells the fantasy from the Greek mythology of how Zeus - the most powerful god of all - raped Leda, the daughter of the king of Sparta, taking the…

Ode to the West Wind is an ode written by P.B Shelley in 1819. It’s an ode about the west wind. The wind is personified both as Destroyer and preserver(93). It’s seen as a big force of nature that destroys the unhealthy and the decaying in order to make a way for the new. The personification of the wind as an enchanter is a typical characteristic of Shelley’s poetry. This personification of the wind can also be called a ‘mythical poetry’. Shelley divides the ode into five stanzas and each part…

published a lot of romantic poems which reflect the beauty of nature to all readers. He had established effective relation with Samuel Coleridge for emphasizing the romantic context of poetry in the 19th century. They both revolted against the norms of classical movement which dominated Europe until the end of the 18th century. Romantic poets adopted a new approach of poetry writing as they avoided the poetic diction of the previous generation of poets. Thus, they supported origins of romantic…

The Theme of Beauty and Emptiness in Wordsworth’s poem ’Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey’ Reading Wordsworth’s poem “Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”, it is obvious that someone looking back and remembering what he once experienced differently. In the poem we can find two major themes represented: beauty, and emptiness. In this essay I will focus on beauty and emptiness. In several lines of the literary work Wordsworth talks regarding beauty or refers to one thing…

Another of the earliest poems of William Yeats is “To The Rose Upon the Rood of Time”, published by the poet in 1893, and has its focus on, then again, mythology and folklore as a way to convey longing for the past. The poem focuses on a narrator, presumably Yeats himself, and his detachment and dispassion for contemporary life, resulting in his nostalgic longing for the past and to be part of the Irish ancient legends – to transcend the life of the ordinary man. The red rose is used by Yeats…

Changes in society, beginning in the 18th century to the mid 19th century and continuing into our own time, underlie the romantic movement.Romantics abondoned many dominant attitudes and prinicples of previous age.Romanticism was a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality, physicl materialism and Classicism of 18th century.Romanticism focused on personal emotions, the individual, the subjective, irrational, the imaginative.Their deep love,…

The formalistic approach focuses on the construction and structure of the literary works; as formalisticapproach.weebly.com, (n.d.) mentions: “The formalistic approach to literature examines a text by its “organic form” –its setting, theme, scene, narrative, image and symbol. It is often referred as “a scientific approach to literature,” because it advocates methodical and systematic readings of texts”. In this case, the structure of poem titled the Hymn of Apollo has six stanzas with 6 six…

The art works, “The Haywain” by John Constable and “The Scream” by Edvard Munch, are two different types of painting that represent the two movements of art work which is Romanticism and Expressionism through their style of art paintings. The well known and well represented the style of art work of romanticism, which is “The haywain” painted in 1821, Constable was the English painter during 18th century. He was a mainly outdoor of landscapes painter that he painted the nature scenery as he saw…

represent the Romantic-era, among which is William Wordsworth and William Blake. They were the oldest pioneering figures who were leading the literary movement. The younger pioneering figures of poets include Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. During the early nineteenth century, Lord Byron was a so popular poet who had a distinguishing style in writing his poems that were mainly connected to the concept of Romanticism in this era; consequently, he was a prominent romantic poet…

Swami Vivekananda who, in words of Sister Nivedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble his Irish devoted disciple), breathed India. He was a personality of multiple facets – a thinker, a philosopher, a saint, a preacher, a leader, a reformer and so on. Very few people know him as a Poet. The English poetry in India brought by the ending years of the nineteenth century has chiefly taken the form of a revival of cultural patriotism, highly necessary for a nation. It also has religious impact on it in the…