Comparing Romantic Poets, Lake Poets, Late-Romantics
The Romantic Poets, Blake and Burns, challenged the societal and religious structures of their day. With different styles, they both defied the oppression of the class system and ridiculed those who thought they were above others. Burns, in his To a Louse, sarcastically probed the audacity of a bug crawling on the fancy dress and hat of a young woman in church who was so impressed with her own status. They also scorned the repression of the religious authorities and beliefs of their day. While Burns maintained his faith, he disagreed with the teachings of his day that virtually everything enjoyable in life was a sin. Blake, on the other hand, even challenged the belief in God as the benevolent creator, instead referring to him as an oppressive blind tyrant. He was such a sarcasti
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Burns Louse, District England, Keats Moore, Unlike Wordsworth’s, Blake Burns, Keats’ Endymion, Wordsworth Coleridge,
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