However, all these poems are not talking and describing on the environment in an aesthetic value only. They are, in fact, transformed into many different meaningful arguments and view points towards the contemporary world of Romanticism in the other parts of the poems. And such implicit meanings usually in relate to the Romanticism as mentioned before.
From the poems, we can see that one of the characteristics of Romanticism is that "it took delight in the exotic". Romantic writers usually find their new ideas from .
1. The World is Too Much with Us William Wordsworth.
2. Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Colderidge.
the oriental. It is because the oriental is new to them and it has lots of things for them to explore. They somehow find the oriental as their source of imagination and creation. No matter the sights, sounds, stories or cultures can delight the Romantic writers much. For example, in Kubla Khan, the poem itself is entitled from a Chinese hero during the Yuan Dynasty. The "Abyssinian maid"(39) is an African lady since Abyssinia is another name of Ethiopia. And the sacred Alph, in fact, is alliterated from the Greek word Alpha, which means the beginning. For this poem, the first three stanzas, in fact, is of imagination. All these imply that the writer considers the Oriental as the source of inspiration.
Except admiring the Oriental's creativity, Romantic poems also criticize the evil human-nature relationship through transformations. As said in "[l]ittle we see in Nature that is ours"(3) 3, we see the nature in a commercial way. We just think of "[g]etting and spending"(2) 3, but not to interact and have harmony with it. We "[give] our hearts away"(4) 3 and do not appreciate the nature anymore. Under the French Revolution, people only thinks about what we can get from the nature, but not how we can cooperate with it in order to make our living better. We human beings polluted the natural environment in which only in the early morning we can have "the.