My poetry project is on the subject of romantic poetry, and I decided today to blog about the characteristics that help define it, just in case this is on the test on Monday.
During the Romantic Period (which was from the late 1700's to about 1860, give or take a few years), the emphasis was on emotion and feeling. Most romantic poetry has a theme of nature, love, or religion. What makes romantic poetry easy to spot is the emphasis on nature. Most romantic poetry is going to either describe something beautiful in nature or compare something to nature.
The language used in Romantic Period was colorful, vivid, and bright. When describing nature, the language was designed to create pleasing sounds and images for the reader. Some poetry did discuss darker subjects, such as William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, but most of the poetry was passionate and upbeat.
There wasn't a set form of poetry from this period. Most of the major authors had an epic poem or an extremely long one that they are known for, but they all also wrote shorter poems. Some examples of long poems from this era are The Prelude by William Wordsworth, Don Juan by Lord Byron, and Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. There were a lot of pastoral poems, and many sonnets written about love, but overall the structure within the period varied a lot.
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