The characteristics are listed below: <span>wrote about the supernatural wrote about the common life explored the world of the imagination self-disciplined wrote specific and precise descriptions </span><span>believed that poetry depends on synthesis rather than analysis</span>
It helps define the theme by providing the contrast of a river as opposed to a town. A river is forever flowing,free, and untamed, it represents freedom. While a town has structure, and rules, and ways in which is must 'act'. This represents slavery.