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ROMANTIC POETRY - Coggle Diagram
ROMANTIC POETRY
Poetic technique
breaking
free from more models and rules
use of
symbols and images
that become
inner visions, leaving their purely decorative function
Romatic poets are divided into
2 generations
FIRST
Wordsworth
themes
(beauty of nature, simple life)
Coleridge
themes
(visionary topics, the supernatural and mystery
SECOND
Byron
Shelley
distinguished themselves for their rebellious spirit and passionate defence of freedom
language
the language became
richer
and showed
interest for ancient Greece
themes
clash between the ideal and the real
individualism
anti-conformist
rebellious
cynical
Keats
form t
he end of 18th century
and
the first half of 19th century
period in which new ideas and attitudes arose in reactior to the dominant 18th century, the Enlightenment
ENLIGHTMENT TRENDS
order
calm
harmony
balance
rationality
reason
interested in science and technology
ROMANTICISM TRENDS
imagination and emotion
Valued individuals
looked for freedom
Represented common people
Interested in the supernatural
The figure of the child
a child was
purer
than and adult because
he was unspoilt by civilisation
The importance of the individual
the Romanticism exalted the atypical the outcast, the rebel because it saw him essentially in a solitary state
the natural behaviour, impulsive, is good, in contrast to behaviour which is governed by reason and by the rules
The
Romantic imagination
is
creative power superior to reason