How do the romantics convey their love of nature? Discuss with reference to the two poems you have read.
How do the romantics convey their love of nature?
Discuss with reference to the two poems you have read.
The two poems I have chose to discuss are ‘The Rime of The Ancient Mariner’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and ‘The Daffodils’ by William Wordsworth. Both of these poems were written at around the turn of the 19th century. Romanticism is the principles and ideals of the Romantic movement in literature and the arts during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Romanticism, which was a reaction to the classicism of the early 18th century, favoured feeling over reason and placed great emphasis on the subjective, or personal, experience of the individual. Nature was also a major theme. The great English Romantic poets include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. ‘The Rime of The Ancient Mariner’ and ‘The Daffodils’ both have nature as their major theme, both poems convey nature with power ‘The Daffodils’ conveys nature with angelic power and ‘The Rime of The Ancient Mariner’ conveys nature with a supernatural heavenly power. At the time the two poems were written there was a strong Christian influence on the writing because both were written at the time when in England there was a large Christian society because of the influence on the writing both poems have many references to God, Heaven and the supernatural. Most of the references to God are obvious in ‘The Rime of The Ancient Mariner’ but in ‘The Daffodils’ the references are more subtle and harder to find. During this essay I will talk to you about the content and the techniques that the writer uses to get across his ideas and the effect the techniques have.
