Question

Describe the term romanticism. How is it evident in the poems of the era? Be sure to include information related to poems from at least two authors. Support your response with evidence related to form, sound, structure, and other poetic elements.

Answer 1

Romanticism

A poetic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries that turned toward nature and the interior world of feeling, in opposition to the mannered formalism and disciplined scientific inquiry of the Enlightenment era that preceded it. English poets such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron produced work that expressed spontaneous feelings, found parallels to their own emotional lives in the natural world, and celebrated creativity rather than logic.