Romanticism is the era of the literary scene where the writers and authors 'romanticize' the life issues. They focus on the things that are melancholy or woeful. Emerging towards the end of the 18th century, the age/ period laid emphasis on the emotion of the individuals, it also focuses on the 'individualization' of things. According to the romantic theory, the creation or writing of any poem is a result of the meditation of the poet.
The poem connects to your life because you usually write about your life experiences or heart felt moments and put it into a poem to express how you emotionally feel or physically feel