... to the growing number of city-dwellers who incessantly crave awesome and abominable "violent stimulants" (Wordsworth, Preface, 575). However, even in light of this disappointment, Wordsworth characterizes the Romantic poet as "finding every where objects that immediately excite in him sympathies which, from the necessities of his nature, are accompanied by an overbalance of enjoyment" (Wordsworth, Preface, 578 ... the speaker is able to "see into the life of things," not unlike the speakers experience in "A Summer Evenings Meditation." Perhaps the reason these two passages express the sa...

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... story of Victor Frankenstein. While Victor praised his family and was quite concerned with their impressions and desires, he allowed his yearning for romantic fulfillment to cloud his identity and ruin his life. Robert Walton, however, guarded against this, and it is evident in his letters to ... and analyzed. As noted earlier, Walton's expedition to the North Pole and Victor's scientific accomplishment are both the products of artistic creation and Romantic idealism. In fact, it is important to note that Walton's quest too, had scientific implications. He states that he may there discov...

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