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Romantic Poets

 

            Romantic Poets: Wordsworth, Shelly, and Keats.
             The Romantic poets are recognized for the love of nature. They all have expressed their love of nature in relationship to some aspect of life. They reflect on nature as something so immense and beautiful as well as its immutability. Three romantic poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelly, have expressed their love nature and have used it to express values and experience. .
             In Lines Composed a Few Miles of Above Tintern Abbey, Williams Wordsworth uses, in three parts, a great deal of imagery to convey certain emotions of his life and its relationship to nature. In the first part he remembers Tintern Abbey and the feelings he has upon his return. He discusses how the memory of the banks has helped his deal with the city and what he owes to those memories. In the second part he questions his memories because of age, he is not sure the feeling is the same. The same feeling he had as a child is not the same in adulthood. The romantic poets believed that children are closer to god then adults. In a sense nature, in relation to god, is fully appreciated in the eyes of children. He is saddened to have lost that purity. In the third part Wordsworth finds redeems that vanity with the love of his sister who is pure of heart with nature. .
             Wordsworth describes his love for nature in three parts, in parts like nature except nature is repetitive. He first describes the innocence of his childhood, then his disparity and vanity of old age and lastly, the purity of his sister. Like natures pattern to bloom (spring/summer), die (winter) and be reborn (spring), he goes through these motions and is reborn through the love for his sister. .
             Percy Bysshe Shelly also uses nature in Ode to the West Wind. Shelly writes about the forces of nature and the power of the wind. In the first stanza he writes about the dead leaves and it be driven away by "Autumn's breath.


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