Romantic poetry

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 of the poem consists of 14 lines. In the first stanza the poet addresses the wind as a “breath of Autumn's being”(92) and as ‘Wild’. The…

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…

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…

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 sense that it evolved out of the magnificent past of India. And whosoever can be the best admirer of this culture and glory of its past that is one and only Swami Vivekananda. We find a mixture of these aspects in Vivekananda’s poetry also but ratio of…

“Patterns” is a poem composed during the rise of the Imagist movement in modern poetry, Amy Lowell was greatly sympathetic . She eventually became one of its major advocates and leaders. Imagists attempted to break with the traditional forms of poetry, preferring unrhymed and free verses which are more colloquial, economical diction which was closer to the rhythms of speech. In “Patterns,” her best-known poem, Lowell used an irregular rhyme scheme to suggest that expression must follow the…

The poem that I chose to transform into a different medium is “Darkness Starts” by Christian Wiman. The poem focuses on the idea of the evolution of light to dark, taking a positive subject and transforming it to something negative. Each new stanza the poem holds on to the theme of the gradual change and development of people and objects, but restarts with a new subject. Wiman starts off with a house, then trees, then an undefined subject, and finally children. He explores how “darkness starts”…

Keats and Blake alike are few in a long list of influential Romantic poets who defined a generation. Two of their poems, ‘To Autumn’ and ‘London’ respectively both share the similar quality of being ‘deceptively’ simple in structure, but strewed within their rigid and formulaic structure, are layers and layers of symbolism and allegory. Though at a first glance, there is quite a lot separating the two distinct poems, but as pieces of thought-provoking, and personal literature, how well do both…

Sunshine, weeds, a brook, and leaves all belong to nature, yet one does not fit in with the others. In most Romantic works, nature radiates a positive vibe. Characters immerse themselves in nature as an escape from the expectations of the towns people and to have a place with freedom. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathanial Hawthorne uses positivity with the forest where Hester and Dimmesdale can interact without the people of the town watching them. However, Hawthorne also explores negativity…