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    During the 1800s, the Romantic Movement was at its peak. Artists were rebelling against the logical nature of the Enlightenment period because they felt that people were losing their individuality. Poets used creativity to find new ways to express imagination and emotions. Lord Byron, one of the poets during the Romantic Movement, used very vivid imagery along with other techniques to portray people’s feelings, often of love or despair. He wrote “She Walks in Beauty” about his love and affection

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    Robert Seymour Bridges was an inspiring and influential writer whose career spans almost six decades. He was an obscure poet until obtaining the title of poet laureate in 1913. Bridges writes with a passion for beauty and nature in life that is clearly displayed throughout his poetry. Influenced by his upbringing and the war during the time, Bridges’ uses a cold and formal style; however, he is still able to express strong emotion that captivates the reader. Bridges’ use of vivid imagery, precision

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    The Romantic period, an era bursting with art and literature, was home to many great writers, writers such as Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mary Shelley. One can imagine that among the many topics that preoccupied the many different works and ideas of these Romantic poets and writers was the Romantic conception of sublime, or idea of being able to connect to one’s own experiences of awe and other emotions like those of terror or even danger. The writers and

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    Romanticism 1. Profound love of nature: “To a Waterfowl” by William Cullen Bryant At the mere age of twenty-one, Bryant masterfully captured the profound beauty of the elegant waterfowl in this poem. Full of ethereal mystery and an incredible appreciation for nature, this poem is considered one of Bryant’s greatest. Beginning with a description of the speaker’s location, the poem sets the mood for the following stanzas. Bryant states, “Whither, midst falling dew / While glow the heavens

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    The poem I picked that interested me the most is a song called No Rain by Blind Melon this song is about depression and expresses the mind set of a depressed person through the lyrics. This song captured my attention because I was depressed over a year ago and could relate to some of the lyrics mentioned in the song. I had no modivation to do anything and would spend so much of my free time distracting myself because I didn’t want to face reality. Im not sure where my depression orginated from it

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    John Keats Accomplishments

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    writers have careers spanning over decades, though one English Romantic poet was able to achieve fame in his short career of only five years. John Keats was a poet with a remarkable ability to perceive the world around him; an ability that resonated throughout his works. Although John Keats lived an unfortunately short life, he is considered one of the most important figures of the English Romantic movement because of his use of Romantic literary devices and themes of love and loss in poems such as

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    As the Classical Era transitioned into the Romantic Era in the early 19th century, music underwent a remarkable change in style, intention, and structure. Heightened emotionalism and growing personal expressions culminated in compositions and performances. During this period of rising Romanticism, a new genre of music—programme music—was developed for the purpose of connecting instrumental music to extra-musical associations that could be literary, poetic, or visual. The symphonic poem, also known

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    “The true poem rests between the words”. Acacia Ridge written in 1962 by famous Aboriginal Australian poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal also known as Kath Walker.Poetry is used to express thoughts and feelings that cannot be used through spoken words to express how the poet feels, social issues are commonly expressed in poetry, poetry is used to express how the poet is feeling about issues. Kath Walker was an Australian poet, political activist, artist and educator, while also being a campaigner for Aboriginal

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    Percy Shelley, a prominent and influential poet of the Romantic era, wrote many poems that describe the nature of the human condition. Similar to other Romantic poets, Shelley found tranquility and peace in nature, he was captivated by clouds, mists, rivers, seas. In his poems, Shelley uses these natural elements to discuss truths about the human condition. Specifically, in his poem “Mutability” Shelley shows the ever-changing fragility and unpredictability of the human condition. The poem starts

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    The Prelude Diction

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    “And growing still in stature the grim shape towered up between me and the stars...” (Lines 25-26). This is a line used in Williams Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem “The Prelude” capturing the reader with his mystical charm of this unknown entity. In the poem, Wordsworth uses his experiences of this journey to “the summit of a craggy ridge” to talk about the newfound boat he has and his special connection to her being greater than the one he owned previously. (Line 14). Throughout the poem, Wordsworth

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