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Theme

The dominant theme of Romantic poetry is quoted as:" The filtering of natural emotion through the human mind in order to create art, coupled with an awareness of the duality created by such a process.

Romanticism

Romanticism is the movement that shifted the major concern of arts from faith in reason to faith in the senses, feelings, and imagination. The artists began to show more interest in rural society. Mysterious and infinite topics began to emerge which marked the end of the " age of reason" which stressed the importance of rationalization and science. The ideas of individual, intuition, and imagination were emphasized during the time period.

Characteristics

Characteristics of Romantic Poetry

Poets

  • The characteristics of Romantic poetry are that it emphasizes feelings, intuition and imagination to a point of irrationalization.
  • Charles Baudelaire:" Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor exact truth, but in a way of feeling.
  • Others feel that it emphasizes individualism, freedom from rules, spontaneity, solitary life rather than life in society, and the love of beauty and nature.
  • Victor Hugo generalized it as" liberalism in literature.
  • During this time period, poets were engaged in trying to create a new kind of poetry that emphasized intuition over reason.
  • Wordsworth defined good poetry as : the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.

Jane Zhuang

7th

English

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