Romantism
Romantic Literature
A) The Romantic Poet is:
-the godlike creator, the legislator of a new world
-a seer and a teacher
-a misundetstood genius,a titan, a demon
B) Romantic Themes:
-nature(wild scenery)
-love
-(heroic) history
-solitude
-the supernatural
-introspection
C) Romantic Poems invite the reader
-to escape from time co-ordinates into : the recent past, the medieval past, a time out of time
-to escape from space co-ordinates into: the surrounding nature,far-off, exotic places, non-existent places
-to escape into the poet's inner world of:the fantastic and the mythical, the exotic, personal emotion
D) Romantic Mood is:
-melancholy
-ambiguous
-rebellious
E) Romantic Poets:
-William Wordsworth
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
-Percy Busshe Shelley
-John Keats