Changing Characteristics of Poetry from Modern to Romantics

Term Paper Submitted By: Afridiu Topic: Changing characteristics of poetry from Romantics to Modern Abstract: The characteristics of poetry changed with the changing of eras and literary periods. Romantics have their own features and writing style. Nature and beauty play very important role in Romantic poetry. Victorian poetry is different from Romantics because its themes are about Victorian age, which is influenced by democracy, evolutionary sciences and industrial revolution. After that the Modern age comes and its themes and style of writings are entirely different from Romantic and†¦show more content†¦While Shelley intellectualized nature and Wordsworth spiritualized it, Keats only visualized it so as to express it as it is felt through our five senses. The Ode to Autumn, in which Keats has glorified Nature, is a poem which for richness and color has never been surpassed. These lines show his love for nature as a romantic poet: Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they Think not of them Though has thy music too. (Ode to Autumn: stanza 3) Imagination has much importance in the poetry of Romantics. Wordsworth and Coleridge formulated the theory that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. Wordsworth’s poetry is highly imaginative when he makes ordinary things as high level through imagination. In A Solitary Reaper, Wordsworth’s imagination changed the song of a hill girl as a lofty one. The Prelude is a history of Wordsworth’s imagination: Wisdom and Spirit of the universe†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦. But with high objects, with enduring things Wordsworth’s bud-nesting adventure that led him to reflective ecstasy: Dust as we are, the immortal soul grows†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦. In one society. Imagination has a real relation with Keats’s poetry. In Keats we find â€Å"imaginative phrases† which have power to delight the aesthetic sense. Ode to a Grecian Urn contains vivid imagination. 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