How did the social upheaval of the French revolution influence the beliefs of the romantic poets?

How are these revealed in there poems?

The Romantic Movement arrived in the 18th century and carried on through to the early 19th century, it was the expression not suppression of feeling and emotion. Writers such as William Blake and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were rebelling against the political sphere. Jean Jaques Rousseau, a French writer and philosopher, created and believed in the concept of “the noble savage”, the idea that humans are naturally virtuous but society corrupts them with rules. He was also a strong believer in the innocence of children as a natural unspoilt state; Wordsworth showed this in a lot of his poetry, this shows the influence of the romantic poets.

The French revolution started in 1789 due to a lack of money in the peasant community, the harvest had failed and they were starving in their own homes and without the money to afford food there was no way out. The peasants were also starting to get angry with the Lords and the Church because, while they had to pay their taxes with no money, the Lords and the Church refused to pay their taxes when they were wealthy. The storming of the Bastille was one of the first actions of the French revolution. The Bastille was a prison in Paris it held political prisoners of the old regime, the storming of the Bastille prison showed that the people of France were no longer living under the reign of a corrupt political system.

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William Blake’s poem, “The Lamb”, has two stanzas, the first stanza has a very clear rhyming scheme were as the second stanza has a less noticeable one with some lines rhyming and others not. The imagery in the poem is very clear for example when Blake says “gave thee clothing of delight” you can see he is comparing wool to actual cloths and furthermore “gave thee such a tender voice” shows he is comparing the noise a lamb makes to a human voice, by doing this it makes us think he is comparing a lamb to a new born ...

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