Essay - Romantic Poetry the Term Romanticism Related to a Period of...

Romantic Poetry

The term romanticism related to a period of European history associated with the end of the eighteenth and ***** beginning of the nineteenth century. Romantic poetry is an expression of the period, the emphasis ***** such ***** was frequently nature as well as individual expression of emotions ***** imagination as a rejection of earlier cl*****sicism ********** strict social rules and conventions that defined life, prior to the time. In a sense rom*****ntic poetry, as well ***** other literary and artistic expressions during the period were a cle*****r demand for ***** justice, expressing that the past social structure ***** to rigid and ***** new social order must allow for ***** growth. The movement stressed that all decisions about one's future should be made not on lineage but ability and that people should be allowed to act ***** express individual feelings of say love, as a natural outgrowth of their position in nature. The romantic poet could be anyone, though there is a cannon of classics that dictate those who the world *****lieved expressed the ***** best, and they are clearly not self educated men. ***** irony be*****g that the canon of the movement ***** still defined by social strata. This work will argue that some ***** the best examples of romantic poetry were produced by unlikely souls from very low places, ***** best example that this writer can find among them being the *****ing class poet, Mary Collier.

To come to terms with a strict sense of ***** time it coincided with the industrial revolution, as more and more social norms ***** being challenged ***** changes in ***** economics. It would seem ***** some, strange to associate romanticism with economics but ***** events were simultaneous and it took the need ***** many to reevaluate *****ir *****dividual and collective place in the world ***** redefine ***** cultural as well as the economic.

A ***** is evident that, in the poetry of this period, ***** much of it lacks the perfectness of form of the world's great m*****terpieces, ***** imag*****ation, in its fullness ***** its freedom, is working nobly, creating ***** beauty of a d*****tinctive kind,... it is conquering new fields in interpreting the mind of man. Of a distinctive kind,-- so that one would recognize always a certain type as a product of ***** era, which differs from other so-called ro*****tic er*****, in ***** power of probing the experience of the individual soul, piercing to the inner world.

Sherwood 8-9)

There is also ***** th***** period a clear sense ***** the romantic notion, as an impetus for change is cyclical, just as conservatism is *****. It would therefore seem logical to broaden the defin*****ion of romantic to one that includes the individual ***** for social *****, and especially with regard to the rights of the ***** ***** self expression, almost regardless of surroundings and station. It ***** for this reason that I ***** that some of the best ***** of romantic *****, actually came from the *****s of the most