Romantic poets

London and westminster bridge The two poems both portray very different images of london. Westminster bridge by William Blake is focused around the beauty of London and the sublime emotions of romanticism. On the other hand, London by william Wordsworth focuses more on the people, society and dark corruption of the city; this fits into the more radical and change side of romanticism. Its written as if a voice is walking London, describing the tragedies they are seeing such as ‘blackening…

Romantic Era was a time of advanced changes in literary works. Whitman and Dickinson daringly changed the style of American Literature. They were the two most famous poets of their time period and with their unique word choices and style they both revolutionized poetry in America. Whitman was known as someone with a social and bold personality. This personality is reflected in his uplifting and positive writing. Unlike Whitman, Dickinson was very isolated and liked to keep to herself. She was…

mainly works such as narratives to represent something greater than what is actually mentioned. Personification is the device most often used by authors writing fictional works to refer to an immobile object as a live being. Robert Frost is recognized poet most known for his recurring mention of nature in his works, "But Frost acknowledged that nature strongly informed…

French Revolution and its aftermath. It is somewhat ironic to state that Shelley, ‘the true child of the revolution’1 was also a pacifist. Ironic, since the very French Revolution which is cited by most as one of the dominant influences on British Romantic literature, was done with its honeymoon period; the republic had been replaced by the First Empire- and more importantly, the revolution had had its fill of innocent lives by the time Shelley began to endorse…

of the Romantic period. The poem deals with ideas about nature, supernatural world, and man’s inner self. On the other hand, R.C. Waterson says that Coleridge’s poem belongs to “no age, but to all the men of all ages” (147). In general, most critics do agree with R.C. Waterson since the poem deals mainly with man and his conflicts. The whole poem is about a seaman and his human experiences at sea. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was written in the nineteenth century and has certain Romantic…

William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) was an eminent English Romantic Poet, hose Lyrical Ballad, as a result of joint efforts, co-authoring with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Contributed to launch the Romantic Age in English Literature. He is known as the poet of Nature, reflecting his inner feelings while appreciating the wonderings and beauty of it. (Norton, 543-45) The poem ‘We Are Seven’, as Wordsworth says, has been “written an Alfoxden in the spring of 1798. The little girl who is the heroine I met…

personality through a long essay. A noteworthy passage from the piece gives a powerful message: “… the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past.” Eliot argues his belief that poems of new poets already came from the older generation of poets. It does not mean that…

Modernist Poets Discuss the Impermanence of Glory In the period following World War I, citizens of all nationalities faced a dark disillusionment forcing them to grapple with personal identity and the purpose of life. People looked to artists of the age as builders of morale and shapers of societal perspective, yet the writers of that time had little more sense of direction than anyone else in the midst of ideological desolation. The only thing to be certain of was uncertainty. Two Modernist…

When comparing and contrasting the two poems “The Mother” and “The Planned Child” it is clear to see how selfish decisions are made in two totally different perspectives. In “The Mother” the reader see’s a mother who has had multiple abortions and suffers from regretting the decisions. This is one of the main differences in the two stories, how the character in “The Mother” see’s her selfish decisions and recognizes them. In “The Planned Child” we see the character in the story as the child,…

Emily Dickinson, an introverted American poet with epilepsy, wrote her way into the world of literature in a distinctive and intriguing manner. Her words, while often unrhymed, have left a perpetual ringing in the minds of her readers. Her poems will forever provide them with wonder, however, one may find themselves speculating about what influenced Miss Dickinson to write her poetry the way that she did. Richard Wilbur, an American poet, described Emily Dickinson with the following quote; “I…