Essay - Romantic Writers the Romantic Period Writers Shared a Common Appreciation...

Romantic Writers

The Romantic Period writers shared a common *****ppreciation for nature in their writing. In addition, writers of this era were also attentive to personal emotion and imagination. These aspects can be seen in the works of John Keats, in his poem "Ode to a Nightingale" ***** Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Percy Shelley's poem, "***** to the West Wind." ***** poems express ***** Romantic era in that they focus on elements of nature with aspects of the imagination. These thoughts led *****m to consider things that are beyond t***** earthly experience. It is life experience coup***** with nature that led these poets to explore human existence on a higher plane.

In "Ode ***** a Nightingale," the poet is working primarily from his imaginati*****, prompted by the nightingale's song. The poet feels a strong emotion when he begins to ponder the song ***** even ***** a sense of losing his identity ********** the result ***** it. ***** bird's song arouses the poet's regarding things ***** do not belong on this earthly plane. The poet claims his heart "aches" (***** 1) and his wits are numbed (*****) ***** t***** and he feels as *****hough the song invites the ***** into a sublime environment. The poet sees pain in beauty when he considers t***** bird's song in the treetops while man sit underneath those trees to "hear each other moan" (24). The ***** also reflects on how his *****on might "cheat" (73) him ***** falls victim to the nightingale's *****. *****se lines reveal ***** ***** emotion evoked in the poem because the poet beg*****s to consider an "easeful death" (52) to avoided the suffering of the world. The poet has thoughts of leaving the world "unseen/And with *****e fade away into the forest dim" (19-20), telling the nightingale he "will fly to thee" (31) on wings of poetry. The mere experience of a bird's song causes the poet ***** experience all these emotions and prompt him to ***** life and death.

Samuel ***** Coleridge is another poet that experiences something special in nature that inspires ***** to write verse. In ***** *****, he becomes a part of ***** nature, allowing him to feel experience nature and, as a result, he is ********** by its beauty ***** the heavenly presence it ***** him to feel. The poet envisions ********** as a p*****rt of nature when he says,

And w*****h such hues/As clothe the Almighty Spirit, ***** he makes Spirits perceive His presence" (Coleridge 42-4). These experiences bring him closer to God, indicating that the experience separates him from everything else and raises his sense of aw*****ness. Nature is the vehicle ***** leads him to awareness on a physic*****l and emotional plane, expressed ********** he realizes that "***** faculty of sense... keep[s] the heart/Awake to Love ***** Beauty" (62-3). Here we see that the poet is open to whatever ***** ***** with nature will teach *****.

Ano*****r poet that demonstrates the mood and tone ***** the Romantic ***** ***** Percy Shelley. ***** "Ode to