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PRE-ROMANTIC AND ROMANTIC POETS - Coggle Diagram
PRE-ROMANTIC
AND ROMANTIC POETS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
WILLIAM BLAKE
his poetry express the contrast between the pastoral world of childhood and the adult world of corruption
"
THE LAMB
"
symbolic animal representing purity and innocence
"
THE TIGER
"
symbolic animal representing perfection and strenght
He met Coleridge in 1795
They worked together on the "
LYRICAL BALLADS
"
collection of poems
(mostly by Wordsworth, four by Coleridge)
poem "
Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
"
reconstruction of a walk the poet had in 1802
THEMES:
feelings, country people,
poet recollects emotions in tranquility
The Preface
(by Wordsworth)
considered manifesto of English Romantic Poetry
poetry as spontaneous feelings,
ecpressed in common language
Born in the Lake District
P. BYSSHE SHELLEY
He studied at Oxford, rebellious student
poem "
The Necessity of Atheism"
a pamphlet challenging belief in God
THEMES:
huma freedom and rejection of religion,
importance of Nature
JOHN KEATS
He studied medicine,
became an apothecary
He went to Rome
and died in 1821
Ode "
Ode on a Grecian Urn"
THEMES:
contrast between eternal perfection of art and the limits of human life
Art is a refuge from time, deacy and deaath
S.T. COLERIDGE
He studied at Cambridge and settled in the Lake District
He met Wordsworth in 1795
poem
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
THEMES:
the role of
mysterious
and
supernatural
in human life