Romantic Rebels

Another dynamic duo of poets are Lord Bryon and Percy Shelley. Both men grew up with privileged lives of wealth an education, though they may not have appreciated it as much as they should have. Both men were also ostracized from their communities for their outspoken criticism and political beliefs. They wrote their woes out for the world through their literary pieces of human and worldly nature.
Lord George Byron was a poor man of nobility with fate on his side as he inherited his fortune, paying his way through college and into fame. He was self-indulged; writing openly on his own personal characteristics. Byron was outspoken and not ashamed to express his opinions as he openly criticized his critics. The use of persona and open expression in his writing won him the categorization of a romantic poet. In his short poem, "She Walks in Beauty," Byron uses end-rhyme and structured stanzas in order to produce a specific "walking" rhythm. He also uses descriptive imagery as he makes continual contrasts in light and darkness throughout the piece. In his work, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," the author takes on a more complex theme as he implements industrial aspects in the description of nature. He does so in order to evaluate the human impact on nature. Byron also personifies nature through extended metaphors and creative allusions. The author's dynamic perspective on the topic and creative presentation illustrates his romantic style and aggressive character.
Percy Shelley was born into the upper class and attended high-level schools. He was kicked out of college for publishing an essay on his radical ideals on atheism. He was not accepted for his radical ideals and left London to travel around Europe. The scenes that surrounded him on his travels strongly influenced his writing. In "Ozymandias," Shelley uses descriptive language and a long sentence structure in order to convey a clear representation of his observation. He continues this long, descriptive process in the poem "Ode to the West Wind." Here he personifies weather using various similes. Shelley creates descriptive imagery through the strong use of adjectives. He returns to the allusion of autumn and the change of seasons throughout the poem as he posses the piece as more of a declaration of existence than a concession of contentment.

Death Comes with the Territory.

I personally found that Keats was very interesting to say the least when it comes to the writing of his poetry. His style is very different from his predecessors, in the packet chronology at least, and I believe that his historical background can be to blame for that. His poetry is very heavily laced with allusions to Greek Mythology. It seems that he enjoys pouring his education into his poetry. This also sets him apart from other romantics as it seems his poetry is still of the more educated type where only those that have studied Greek mythology in depth would be able to comprehend everything that Keats is trying to say. His poetry isn't simply about nature and how it connects with a deeper introspection of the poets self....it would seem that his poetry is more based on how nature is a representation of emotion and how the world around him influences emotions. It brings to mind the idea of pre-conception. Where depending on the mindset a person has going into something effects the details that that person is going to notice easiest. He tied that idea into looking at nature and was able to make some very interesting metaphors with that. I am glad that I got the chance to read his poetry, and the fact that he produced these in such a short time span is also amazing. Though i believe that Shelley is my favorite.

Two Rebellious Men

Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley were two very good friends who epitomized the Romanticist Era. The two men were surprisingly very rebellious in nature. Shelley got kicked out of college for writing that atheism was a necessity and Byron just left college and led a “lady’s man’s” life. Although very rebellious, the two men were geniuses in poetry.

The four poems written by these two very, very, very good friends focused on nature and the way mankind disrupts this nature. She Walks in Beauty, written by Lord Byron, is ironic considering how rebellious he tended to be. This poem shows beauty which is a key aspect of Romanticist poetry. The second poem given written by Lord Bryon, Apostrophe to the Ocean, is very scenic and has a lot of deep truth. Byron argues that society is ruining nature. Nature is said to be all powerful because buildings and society cease to be when the shoreline starts. The importance of nature is another important part of Romanticism.

Again, Shelley argues his political ideas in Ozymandias. In this short poem, Shelley rebels against the concept of society and basically says that man is ruining nature. The last poem was harder to understand but its overall praising the West Wind. The nature in this poem is obvious, with the scenes of falling leaves and rubble. The narrator wishes to be swept away by this wind and would like to be gone with the wind in spirit. Shelley’s two poems are Romanticist because they speak out against society and the disruption that man has caused.

Shelley-Byron

Both Shelley and Lord Byron are leaders in the Romanticism period of poetry. Although very close friends, they both lived extremely different lives. Byron grew up in a poor, but noble family; while Shelley grew up as an elitist in British society. However, both had similar writing styles when it came to their poetry. Shelley and Byron strived to reach a deeper meaning of nature, yet explored the concept in different styles. Byron looked at natured from a perspective of being a powerful force that was unstoppable and continued to go no matter what. Although Byron’s childhood was upsetting, he does not appear to take a depressive angle to his poems like you might think. I see his poetry to be more realistic of nature, than that of Shelley, for he takes what we see at the surface level of nature and explore it further. Knowing that he (like Shelley) had radical political views also gives you glimpse at his writing style, unlike their differing personalities.
Shelley, also writes of nature, taking an imaginative approach in his work, Ozymandias. After reading both biographies, I would have never assumed Shelley’s writing to be in the tone that it was. From reading about his pleasant childhood to his quick success, it did not fit my image of what his writing style would be like. His dark tone also adds to his attempt to show the true humanity of the world, not being as tight knit as portrayed by some.

Although not completely significant, the length of the writers is quite different. Shelley takes a direct approach, to where Byron uses more descriptive, and lengthy writing to get his point across. Both writers are pioneers of the Romanticism period and their friendship further enhances their ability to change this era of poetry.

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Allow me to preface this blog post by making the radical statement that this dynamic duo is significantly less interesting than the last bro-tasctic duo we had. The fact that these two are for all intents and purposes have the exact same style of writing poetry leads to a less intriguing juxtaposition. But whatever they both died you making them the rock stars of classic romantic literature despite their ambiguous genders. But since Cop Killer yelled at me for bitching too much about my personal feelings in these blog post so I guess I have to discuss the way in which they represent romantic literature as a whole. Well these two embody romanticism very well with the extensive use of natural imagery, what for them was common speak, boundless optimism regarding the natural world and humanity in general, and the way that their poems express emotion in torrents rather than in meticulous drab form like neo classical literature. Now that all that’s out of the way I just gotta say Shelly is so much better simply for the fact that its wife wrote the most bomb ass book ever Frankenstein.

Lord Byron & Shelley

Like Coleridge and Wordsworth, Shelley and Lord Byron were great friends. They encouraged one another as well as provided one another with constructive criticism and bounced ideas off each other. They shared many of the same ideals, including freedom from the chains of society and tyranny. Like all Romantic poets, they shared a deep love for nature, and their ideas were revolutionary.
In Byron’s poems, his political views are conveyed. Lines such as “there is a society, where none intrudes…” and “man marks the earth with ruin-his control,” shows his disillusionment with the governments and their hand in a citizen’s every-day life. Such unhappiness transpired into action on Lord Byron’s part. He actually died while training Greek soldiers during their revolution against Turkey in the 1820s. Nature takes the spotlight in many of his poems. He vividly writes of “pathless shores,” and “lonely woods.” He was also an atheist, something which got him kicked out of college. This in itself was a taboo subject during that time, but he writes freely of “even from thy slime/ the monsters of the deep are made.” Such ideas were indeed revolutionary.
Shelley possessed many of the same techniques as his colleague Lord Byron did such as love of nature, freedom, etc. He was a dark brooding man, and such conceptions contributed to his tragic hero persona. In my opinion, his poems had more imagery than Byron’s. The rhyme scheme altered between poems, but each of his poems had a definite scheme to it, unlike Byron’s.

More poets

Lord Byron and Percy Shelley were critical players by enhancing poetry in its new era. Just from reading the biographies, there are not many differences between the two poets. Lord Byron was described as having a spoilt life due to many of the tragedies that he has to face during his lifetime. When it comes to his poetic ideas, Byron seems to be connected with his surrounding and nature (he did have a pet bear). Bryon also seemed to have two sides to his personality. One part of him was charming and friendly, and the other part of him was dark and brooding. These two different personalities/characteristics can actually be viewed in “Apostrophe to the Ocean”

Percy Shelley died at a young age due to a boating incident, but even in this short amount of time, he was able to contribute a lot for the poetry era. When it comes to poetic style, Shelley was also into nature and incorporated nature images A LOT in his poems, such as “Ode to the Wild West”. Another common element in both the poets is the fact that they both wish to promote freedom, and they include this concept in their poetry such as “Ozymandias” Both of them wished to help out the poor and oppressed. So, for the most part, both of these poets have the same writing style. The real difference is the switching of personality for Byron during his poems.

Byron and Shelley.

Byron and Shelley were at the forefront of the Romanticism
era. Like Coleridge and Wordsworth, the two were great friends despite the
differences in their upbringing. Their styles grew and fed off of one another’s,
without a doubt, and some similarities are easily seen between some of their
pieces. For one, the reverence for not just the aesthetic pleasure of nature,
but the unbridled power it can wield when perceived the right way. Byron’s “She
Walks In Beauty” is the first of two good examples of this perception. She
Walks is inspired by the sight of Byron’s cousin by marriage, but upon deeper
inspection it can very easily be seen to have allusions to nature from the
aesthete’s point of view. The less focused-on features of the woman’s face,
like her cheek and her brow, are now discussed so prominently, almost a
testament to the Romanticism writer’s desire to return to the more primal, basic
roots of nature. This is also displayed in the second Byron piece from the
packet. “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” depicts the viciousness of the ocean, how
it is almost nature’s revenge force against the crimes mankind has committed upon
it. The ocean tosses ships around and pulls man down to the depths “with
bubbling groan, without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.” It is
this respect of nature’s power that sets Byron apart from the writers in the
previous packet. Shelley also displays this same reverence for nature and
nature’s power, but in a slightly different way than Byron had done. He takes
that concept and places it in hand with the slight instability of humanity, as
seen in “Ozymandias.” His shorter descriptions of the events in the poem (Byron
was a tad long-winded) create the feel that nothing is going to last forever,
adding to the aforementioned frailty of mankind. He writes with an almost
fondness of the feature of the statue, and in the last lines when he mentions
the “level sands” it reminds me of how the building material for the statue had
at one point been a part of nature. This reinforces the Romanticism belief that
everything has its roots in and stems outward from nature.

Lord Byron and Percy Byssche Shelley, much like Coleridge and Wordsworth, were a good friends that strongly influenced one another's poetry. Their friendship might seem unlikely - Shelley growing up privileged and with an excellent education and Byron have a noble title but no money to that title - but they actually had a lot in common. Neither ever shyed away from scandalizing their peers, though Byron's charming persona might have saved him from Shelley's exiled fate, and both were political radicals, proponents of individual rights. They were active in the Greek revolution against the Turks.

Their poetry also has much in common. Both men are deferent to the might and power of nature (particularly in Byron's speech to the sea) and both recognize the fraily of humankind (Ozymandias). But while their poetry is representative of their friendship, it is not representative of them as people. Lord Byron is commonly believed to have been a loner, ostracized from society, who brooded over his dark thoughts and depression. However, this is a too-common misconception, as Byron was very extroverted and active in society.

They inspired love, not fear.

Lord Byron was a master of imagery. Both his poems paint such a vivid picture that one simply can not help but imagine that they are exactly where Lord Byron wanted the poet to be. The use of nature as a conquering force was probably my favorite personification used. Lord Byron reminds me somewhat of Jack London in his ideal that Nature will not lie back allow whatever humans do to it to happen. I loved the mention of all of the empires that had fallen at that time being taken over again by nature. It really paints a vivid picture about how life and death are a completely natural cycle. I also found it interesting that he discusses drowning and being lost at sea, because his best friend dies early by drowning.

Percy Shelly's poems.....these poems are even more filled with imagery than Lord Byron's poems. I loved Shellly's ability to portray scenes that set such hard-hitting moods. Ozymandias was easily my favorite poem from this entire packet, as it was concise but had such a powerful emotional tone that it felt like a long story. The description of the stone, along with background of the actual pharaoh as well of course, made it so much deeper than the long-winded descriptions that Byron seemed to give. Don't get me wrong, both poets were amazing but I did like Shelly more. An Ode to the west was very interesting, as the each section had a totally different mood to it, almost as if it was a different poem completely. The fact that they tied in together so well was amazing. I enjoyed that it was a journey back into nature, It calls to mind how everything cycles back into nature. I also love his deeper meaning as to how nature and human nature parallel as both cycle and sometimes they can match up. Also with the stages in life. It was simple an amazing book.

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Both Lord Byron and Percy Shelley were pioneers in the new era of poetry. Influenced by the rebellious tendencies against the norm, their poetry stands out together. The two were companions during their life and the poetry they created is similar to one another. Both focus around nature, but in different ways. Byron focuses on drawing a deeper meaning to nature. In Childe Harold's Pilgrimage he portrays the ocean as an unstoppable force with extreme power that can not be controlled. Also, I see more rhymes within his poems than the previous set of poems. Shelley's poems seemed a tad depressing but also had some aspects of imagination I think. Either way, his poems include elements of nature and are of the Romantic era style of writing. The two campanions were both ironically wonderufl poets of this era despite their different backgrounds of poor verses fortunate.

telling ghost stories by the fire;

Byron and Shelley were incredibly influenced by the prominence of a changing era and a new form of influence that struck Europe during their lifetimes – initiating a shift in poetic composition unlike before. Both men arose to popularity with entirely different backgrounds – Byron being a poor baron with little interest in schooling and Shelley whom was raised in riches and attended very exquisite schools for education. While the two men were incredibly close as companions, their poetic devices differed impeccably in several aspects. Byron’s poem “She Walks in Beauty” withholds a constant A-B rhyme scheme, initiating what sounds like more blatant structure when recited out loud. He persistently uses imagery to convey feeling and many metaphors of nature to reflect on the beauty in a woman, showing a more capable control over his diction and the manner he is able to convey things in a style assimilated towards applying the natural world efficiently. Shelley, in “Ozymandias”, uses the same tactics as Byron in providing a different outlook on life through this new style of romanticism. He applies his knowledge from his constant travels to compose a poem written about Ramses II of Egypt. Shelley speaks with fondness towards the statue and applies a deeper meaning to the statue towards the land around and particularly those standing in its almost intimidating glower. Both are incredibly influenced by rebellious feats, Byron being the one to help Greece with its rebellion against Turkey and Shelley writing a radical book “The Necessity of Atheism.” While differentiating in tone, both men serve as exceptional poets during the romance era.

Womanizer and Forever Young: Lord Byron & Percy Bysshe Shelley

Perhaps the most famous of poet duos, Byron and Shelley truly started the fire of the Romantic ideology. The two led nearly parallel lives; both born wealthy,both scrutinized by critics excessively which led to their self exiles from England, and both chased by women. Byron literally became a celebrity over night with the "Childe Harlod's Pilgrimage" as society became enthralled by his outgoing, daredevil personality and flirtatious nature with the ladies. He presented a more wild, carefree way of living that the young and wealthy flocked to. Bodacious and pompous, Byron is the first face I associate with Romantic poetry. His writing style is very flowing and smooth; passionate without being overpowering. "She Walks in Beauty" includes many images that in modern times would come off as cliché (he speaks of his lover's face, eyes, and hair in various similes) yet due to its soft, quiet, whispering tone is still incredibly dreamy and romantic. "Apostrophe to the Ocean" carries the same effortless quality but is far more dynamic in language. Byron's deep respect and awe for the strength of nature versus his observations on the fragility of man is the core of the poem. As his dearest and closest friend, clearly absorbed many of Byron's techniques in his own poetry. "Ode to the West Wind" is similar in topic except that Shelley presents an unquenchable jealously of the wind's power and freedom. He appeals to he wind as if he worships it; Shelley's atheist beliefs are visible in his poetry as well as his disdain for modern society. "Ozymandias" is so wonderfully written; a profound, deep story is told in such a short poem. The tone of the language is broken, eerie, desolate. Shelley seems to be commenting upon the eventual fall of all things great, perhaps he was imaging his early and imminent death.

Byron and Shelley

Lord Byron and Percy Shelley use each other to make their writing better and play off of each other. Both men exult in the power of nature, from the ocean to the winds, and everything in between. Byron equates the beauty of a woman to that of "starry skies" (She Walks, 2) which shows his deeper feelings for not only to explain her loveliness but also to show a deeper meaning of nature. His Childe Harold's Pilgrimage shows the power and relentlessness of the ocean. Byron sees the ocean as the only place that people cannot conquer because it is even more unruly than that of humans. However, instead of being afraid of the sea, his protagonist loves it like a cherished horse. Shelley also shows the power of nature in Ozymandias and Ode to the West Wind. Each poem is a little more dark and sorrowful, however it shows that humans cannot tyrannize nature.

Romanticism and a poem of gratitude

Worswoth and Coleridge can be given complete credit for the creation of true romanticism. Wrodsworh grew up around the constant beauty of nature. He spent his younger year the Lake district of England where his appritiantion of nature was develooped. These youngers of Wordsworth is really were his poetry can be devrived from. His style is subtley different from Coleridge; Wordsworth speaks of the real and true nature. His poetry is of what is real and there with accelerated details. His poetry is simplistic and easy to understand.

Coleridge is the other poet that can be given credit for creating romanicism as well as Wordsworth. Coleridge was different Wordsworth in the way that he used imagination and fantacy. It kind of reminded me of Alice in Wonderland. This was an uncharteder territory as far as a combination of nauture and imagination goes.

He is a poet and you know it, with that Bromatic flow, that no body know, he will give you a show, with a romantic woe. He is to stay, you can't keep him away, because he is pretty fly, for a white guy. He is here two hundred years, he's not leaving, lets share the cheers, for his wonderful invention, that he is ecredited, i want to say thanks, we much indebteded.

George Gordon and Percy Shelley

George Gordon, also known as Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley are two well renowned romanticism poets from the 18^th and 19^th centuries, who also shared a friendship based on complete opposites. Gordon would “thrill” and “scandalize” his contemporaries after becoming a literary genius and famous. “Although Byron could be quite charming and friendly, his admirers insisted on associating him with the dark, brooding hero, impassioned by a cause, whom he so often described.” Because of this, he became the quintessential Romantic poet. In his poems “She Walks in Beauty” and “Apostrophe to the Ocean,” nature is a prevalent factor displaying his writing styles fluently and the Romantic style.

Percy Shelley and George Gordon were close friends, and their poems “reveal the strong influence of their mutual devotion.” Nature is the main component in Shelley's poems, as are radical politics, and social justice. Shelley had a rebellious nature and was a bit of a radical. In his poems “Ozymandias” and “Ode to the West Wind,” there was a great use of landscape and imagery. His poems were somewhat depressing at times, but would eventually switch to be happy. Death and dreaming are important subjects in “Ode to the West Wind,” and Shelley uses a lot of simile and imagery.

Epic Romanticism Battles of History! William Wordsworth vs. Samuel Taylor Coleridge!

Wordsworth and Coleridge are both lynchpins in the creation
of Romanticism. Wordsworth grew up predominately in the Lake District of
England, so his appreciation of nature and the beauty of things aside from
nobility definitely originated in his childhood. This appreciation carries forth
into his adolescence and inevitably into adulthood and his career as a poet.
Wordsworth’s main focus is on that of the commoner and examining life sans
nobility or flowery language. He purposefully deviates from the norms of the time
period and abandons “what is usually called poetic diction” and creates his own
style, his own form, and it becomes wildly popular. Because Wordsworth’s work primarily
examines aspects of real life, it is easier for the reader to get into and find
a way that they can relate to it.
Although Coleridge is equally as involved in creating
Romanticism, the main topics of his poetry differ immensely from Wordsworth’s.
While Wordsworth focused on nature and the commoner, Coleridge delved into the
imagination and the fantasy side. He did include elements of nature, as
evidenced by his piece entitled “Kubla Khan,” but he also explored the
eccentricities of the commoners, not just in what the nobility had that they
lacked, but what the commoner had that was flamboyant or eclectic, what set
them apart in ways other than just social class and financial standing.
Unfortunately, Coleridge’s exploration of the mind is what unravels his
friendship with Wordsworth and his marriage. He tumbles into a deep depression
that ends both relationships. He had health issues and tried painkillers to
alleviate the asthma and rheumatism he lived with, but those medications only
dulled his creative powers and made it difficult for him to write.
Personally, I enjoy the styles of both poets equally. One
cannot deny the imprint they have left on the literary world, regardless of
their differences.

What crazy poets!

William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge were the fathers of the Romanticism period in which they collaborated together to piece-meal poems of their differing styles, that would explore the new face of poetry. While this collection became a revolution in the poetic world, both writers had opposing styles and characteristics. Their writing styles differed, which also created friction between the two, ending their friendship. Wordsworth investigated the naturalistic world through a common language, while Coleridge took a more supernatural approach of exploring the exoticness of the world.

Wordsworth said himself that his goal is not to create poetry through the typical poetic language, but to create a piece of work that is simplistic to understand and ordinary in tone. His use of common language easily gets his message across to readers without fixating on sophisticated and unnecessary jargon. Wordsworth was influenced by the French Revolution after spending time there following college. This influenced his thoughts and ideals of both social justices and individual rights. However, despite a political presence within his writings, his poem Tintern Abbey highlights his love for the calmness in nature. He uses contrast between the calm environment of the woods and an area not so gentled to further enhance his ability to portray his love for nature and its calmness. By providing the ‘absence’ from that environment following a description of the soft inland murmur makes his audience also long to return to its beautiful cliffs.

Coleridge’s writings were more centered on exploring the imagination and slipping into dreams. His childhood was a major influence on this characteristic poetry style, for he enjoyed leaving reality to escape to books and a fantasy world. He also, in his adult life, allowed the ideologies of radical politics to influence his thinking. Much like Wordsworth, he was intrigued by the French Revolution, which gave him the ideas of creating a Utopian society. Coleridge extended his exotic style into his piece Kubla Khan, which was a poem that was sparked by a dream that he had after reading about Xanadu. It was not uncommon for Coleridge to write based off of dreams and other ‘on the fly’ type of inspirations.

Let's Do Something Together

William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge are best known as leading pioneers of the Romanticism Era of poetry. The two attended the same University but were not united until years after. Once joined, Wordsworth and Coleridge combined their work and ideas of poetry and became the leaders of Romantic Poetry. While working together to create a fluid objective of Romantic Poetry, the two suffered from differences which accomplished in setting their works apart.

William Wordsworth is known for his desire to set aside previous poetic skills, including proper style, words, and subject matter, and incorporating ordinary life and nature through common grounds. Extinguished was the flowery and unnecessary inclusions that made previous poetry superficial and unmoving; added was the central focus on life and its different forms. A reflection of Wordsworth's poetic style is seen in his poem Tintern Abbey which essentially accents his reliance on the simplicity of nature.

Samuel Coleridge is best known for his desire to incorporate fantastical subjects. While he was also known for including nature of life, he centrally focused around the world of a person's imagination. His work, along with Wordsworth's, caused a revolution in poetic style and thought. A common rendition of Coleridge's focus on the imagination is evident in his poem Kubla Khan which he wrote after having a dream which reflected what he had read about Xanadu.

Wordsworth/Coleridge

William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge had one of the most influential bromances of our civilization. Romanticism was born because these two men found a common ground of looking at nature, emotions, and the want of freedom and letting all of those things fuel their writing. Coleridge found solace from his physical pain and addiction to medication in his imagination, while Wordsworth used his inspiration from nature to see a deeper meaning in the world. The work of Wordsworth and Coleridge, "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" and "Kubla Khan" respectively, show the similarities and differences of different Romantic poetry.

Both poems write about nature and the emotions of people. This exemplifies the new ideals of Romanticism as well as shocking people into understanding a new point of view. The vivid imagery helped the reader feel inside the Xanadu or standing beside the ruins of Tintern Abbey.

The contrasts of these two poems allow newcomers to Romanticism understand its infinite bounds. "Tintern Abbey" shows the complete emotions of the poet and is written in a way that the every man can understand, which was very important to Wordsworth who was on the side of the every man during the French Revolution. "Kubla Khan" is incomplete and uses many more exotic, strange words that some would not recognize. Coleridge's writing style is hectic and spontaneous, but the reader is still able to understand the emotions that course through the piece.

In this passage we learn that Coleridge and Wordsworth were essentially the pioneers of Romanticism, even though their views and writing styles were a little bit different from one another. Romanticism is the style that depicts expression from a deep sense of thought, as with spirituality. It takes upon itself methods to explore true meanings of things as with finding beauty in nature (Wordsworth) and the stimulation of one's imagination (Coleridge). In Coleridge's writing, his sharp mind was lured with imagination linked with nature. Coleridge was not so surrounded with nature, as he might have otherwise desired.William Wordsworth had a different approach to life and poetry. Wordsworth wanted to produce language that the ordinary mind would be able to understand. He wanted his readers to have the ability to relate to what he was saying. Coleridge did not agree with what Wordsworth endorsed by way of being attuned to the rustic or common life.Wordsworth, however, grew up with nature as opposed to Coleridge, even though they were pretty good friends at one point.

Those Radicals.

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were two tightly bonded friends who both were “partisans” for the French Revolution, loved nature, and were stewards for the Romanticism movement. The two worked together to create a compilation of their poems. Each poem exemplified Romantic elements such as the focus on nature and one's emotions. The two poem offered, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by Wordsworth, and Kubla Khan by Coleridge, both contrast and compare to each other, although both follow the lines of romanticism.

Compared to each other, Wordsworth and Coleridge both base their poems on nature and their emotions. Tintern Abbey relates to a scene where the narrator was very good memories and uses these memories to be optimistic in his present mind. Although slightly more negative, Coleridge describes the Xanadu of Kubla Khan. Like Wordsworth, these images are very vivid and provide keen imagery.

In this instance, the contrasts outweigh the comparisons. Firstly, whereas Wordsworth highlighted human life in common language, Coleridge had a more strange and exotic style. This is evident in their individual poems. Tintern Abbey has a very positive light, one that is enough to last “five years.” Kubla Khan on the other hand, was very spontaneously written and not even completed because Coleridge was interrupted. This greatly shows the styles of the two men. Again, in form, the two poems differ. Wordsworth offers a blank verse poem that is smooth and natural; Coleridge, instead, writes in an iambic tetrameter and uses rhyming in his poem.

BFFs - Will and Sam

William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge were both founders of the romantic genre and influenced each other's peotry a lot. They were each of them great lovers of nature, inspired by their residence near one another in the beautiful lake district of northern England. In fact, both poets' work focused largely on their appreciation of nature, Wordsworth preferring to write about the general countryside of England and everyday lives, while Coleridge had a preference for the exotic and far away.

"Titern Abbey" is a great example of how Wordsworth praised the ordinary in his peoms, passionately describing the hills and the trees and even the wind. On the other hand, in "Kubla Khan," Coleridge showcases his active imagination with his details of a mysterious land, owing mostly to his love of novels and fantasies as a child, though there is speculation that the main inspiration for this poem was an excess of painkillers. Wordsworth also avoided flowery language, which allowed the beauty of the scene in the poem to be felt instead of the beauty of the words.

The pairs shared quite a bitin common and the revolution that they began in writing was largely sparked by the French Revolution, which they were both strong proponents of. A lot of good poems are owing to the wonderful friendship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, but unfortunately their friendship fell apart in their later years of life, Coleridge succumbing to an addiction to pain medication.

The Bro-mance of a Romance

Two of the founding writers of romantic works were William Wordsworth and Taylor Coleridge. These men happened to be friends at one time as they had very similar ideals on individual rights and the experiment of democracy. Both were young men during the French Revolution and chose to pursue the social theories of the time by promoting a more modern form of poetry. Their writing styles were very different, yet conveyed the same principles of social reform and enlightenment. The work was meant to be read by the "common man." They used clear description with decisive imagery, making their work easy to understand and entertaining to read.
Wordsworth's writing style was clear and keen on his personal observation of nature. As a revolutionary thinker, Wordsworth possessed a strong appreciation for nature and human relations with the surrounding world. His poem, "Tintern Abbey," relies heavily on the use of adjectives to describe the natural scenery around him. Every object has a specific presence or quality in the narrator's perspective. He presents his surroundings to the reader in perfect detail as an intertwining landscape of familiar beauty. The reader can easily envision every aspect of Wordsworth’s surroundings because they are presented as very real and tangible aspects of nature. The author’s writing allows his readers to not only see what he sees, but believe in it as well.
Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” presents similar aspects of poetic technique as it implements adjectives and adverbs to describe, in full detail, the author’s imaginary world. This world incorporates many real naturally occurring geographic features; however, it takes on an unnatural cycle of depth that is not easily envisioned by the reader. Coleridge enhances his poem with a stronger rhyme scheme, consisting of end-rhyme and alliteration. This helps the poem’s structural flow and allows the reader to progress through the complicated scenery with relative ease. The author’s description of this creative nature enlightens the reader on the romantic ideals of human significance and personal freedom.

A dying breed.

Woodsworth and Coleridge developed two very opposing methods for portraying essentially the same ideal. Such is the wonder of romanticism. It has been said in EVERY other blog post that these two took their roots from the French revolution, so I will focus on something a little more on the characteristics that both of them decided to bring to the spotlight in order to convey the same message. I thought it was interesting that Woodsworth decided to focus on the normalcy of the commoner and how without the distinct class boundaries that were very present in this feudal time period, one could not tell the difference between a commoner and a nobleman. While Coleridge focused on writing about the more eccentric things that commoners had that the noble lacked, and how these things made the commoners extraordinary and more valuable to society than the noblemen thought they would be. This was a very interesting combination of people to start a poetic revolution. The style of the two poets focused more so on nature and the natural structure of things, which was strongly opposed to the neo-classical view that all things had to be structured and used in a poetic sense that only the strongly educated can understand. I feel that this was almost as much of a breakthrough as the Bible being translated into a commoner tongue so that anyone could read the Bible. Allowing poetry to become an open source of media enlightened entire generations and helped fan the flames of many rebellions. This sudden change could not have been done without Woodsworth or Coleridge.

POETS!

The turn to Tomanticism was rooted in a Revolution. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were poets and good friends during this time period. They both wanted to change the approach to poetry and alter it into something new, however there were difference between the two. Their change of ideals even led to the ending of their friendship.

Wordsworth's strived to create poetry that the average person could read and experience in the same way. Literacy was an activity for the noblest men during this time, so this idea was completely different. Instead of filling his poetry with "flowery language", he filled it with simple words and simple descriptions of nature- something everyone has experienced. He is also less serious in his tone. His poem, Tintern Alley, resembles these parts of nature and simple-ness. His poems strove to allow the ordinary person to read and enjoy the art.

Coleridge, on the other hand, focused on a different aspect. His ideals centered around expanding the imagination and his poems seem more blunt or even harsh in a way. He expressed different political ideals of the time, and in Kubla Khan, his artistic writing is different than that of the simple form of Wordswroth. He mainly aimed to expand the thoughts of his average readers of this time.

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William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge seem to have been pretty cool dudes. They took on the common held ideas about literature, specifically poetry, and completely go against it. These fellas focused on simple language, eliminating the ridiculous diction that is incredibly hard to read for a 21st century student. Furthermore, they focused on concepts like nature, looking at the more abstract parts of life, and finding the lack of structure in things. Both were influenced by the French Revolution, with Coleridge even wanting to establish a utopia based on his new radical viewpoints. These two gentlemen were close friends, working together on their poetry and developing the new way of writing: Romanticism.

Wordsworth poem definitely shows the influence of nature on his life and writing. The poem is essentially a narrative about this journey he takes through Tintern Abbey. Focusing more on the aspects of nature than rhyme or crazy diction, Wordsworth is able to easily get his point across. He is easily to display the beauty of nature through his basic images and descriptions. He also describes the profound impact nature has on life, particularly on him. In contrast to his friend Coleridge, Wordsworth in his poem focuses on the very concrete aspects. He is describing what he sees, what's actually there. That's it. No fantasy. No imagined things. It's all definite things. This contrast between the two is interesting and shows the different subjects and ways a Romantic poet can write; using concrete aspects of nature or more abstract, imagined things.

Coleridge's poem was much different. While still ridding his poem of all "flowery language" and weird diction, Coleridge's poem focuses more on imagination and that aspect of nature and politics. Based in a political center, his poem emphasizing imagined things, like a "dome in the air." Yet his poem still focuses on nature. It still shows an interaction with nature, even though it is mostly fantasy. He focuses on letting the writing just come to him naturally, (he came up with it all in a dream, pretty impressive) not forcing it. He doesn't try to force in diction, or force the lines to sound a certain way. He simply writes, letting the lines just come to him, just as Wordsworth does.

Romanticism focuses on nature and eliminates the "flowery language." It seems that the writing is less forced, less focused on making it sound a certain way and more on just making something that everyone can enjoy and understand. Interesting contrast from neoclassical writing.

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are two very well known poets from the romanticism era. They both primarily focused on nature scenes in the poems “A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth, and “Kubla Khan” by Taylor Coleridge. They befriended each other and became very close, writing poetry together and conversing with each other about their latest pieces. They shared a lot of similar ideas, but they still had their differences that sometimes came between them. Eventually, the two poets stopped being friends and were never quite able to rekindle their friendship. William Wordsworth used the simple ideas of nature to craft his poems for the most part and did not use “poetic words.” He seemed to ixnay “flowery language, the wittily crafted figures of speech, the effusive praise, and the tragic complaints that had defined poetry in the past.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge primarily focused on imagination in his poems. He “explored the language and experience of common people in natural settings.” Nature is prevalent in “A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” but it is also highly used in “Kubla Khan.” He turns facts into fantasies, but this led to deeper issues with his health problems and his self-doubt.

a revolution in itself;

Romanticism began in the roots of Revolution and a growing development that captivated writers in an entirely different form than the century prior. Rising from chaos and the prevalence of military coups and violence, poets and other literary writers began to conceive a new process of thought that affected the manner various forms of art came to be. William Wordsworth began to present “intensified presentation of ordinary life and nature using common language,” which was written in a sense that everyone could understand if they had the audacity to pick up the piece and read it – unlike before where literacy was reserved mostly for those of nobility. His best friend, Samuel Coleridge, also wrote to the same inspiration and challenged the old system of writing to a new and expansive form which eventually altered the face of literature and its forms of expression. “Tintern Alley” offers imagery that represents nature at some of its finest, providing new forms of contemplation but also the newest addition of natural elements. The tone is whimsical and thoughtful with a more simplified language that lacks too much complexity, so everyone has the opportunity to understand. “Kubla Khan”, meanwhile, offers a similar amount of extensive imagery and captivating considerations of the Mongol dynasty in written form. While both are written similarly, both contrast by the specific feeling - one more dramatic and almost considerably harsh while the other is whimsical and more prone to brighter sorts of imagery.

BRomantic Poets: Wordsworth & Coleridge

The fathers of the the Romantic movement were certainly unique in their own ways. It is no wonder that William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge became such good friends; both had passions for freedom and expression rooted in the ideals of the French Revolution which they no doubt picked up these theories during their extensive travels throughout Europe. Repulsed by the stifling society of their day, Wordsworth and Coleridge found themselves seeking higher, clearer air; figuratively and literally. Their shared regard for the strength and symbolic power of nature is clearly evident in their poetry; Wordsworth found mental escape amongst the physical beauty of the woods and lake country while Coleridge relied upon the climate for his failing health. Such high esteem for the natural world also displays their disdain for the harsh architecture of man; an attitude that was certainly passed down to their followers.

But they were not with out their differences, as friends hardly ever are, and they can be clearly picked out by analyzing the writing style of their most famous poems. Wordsworth's diction in "Tintern Abbey" is much more simplistic than the formal language of previous poets but it is not without complexity. He depicts the landscape in great detail, focusing on quaint images as well as profound beauty. His general point is to make clear the deep impact that this experience has left upon his being, how a physical appearance can contain inexplicable meaning if one chooses to look for it. Coleridge, however, lacks the more realistic approach that Wordsworth uses. His poem "Kubla Khan" is choppy, bizarre, and entirely otherworldly. His reknown imagination is clearly evident in the imagery so passionately described; a terrifying king, savage jungle, a mysterious maiden. Coleridge looked at a more blurred reality than Wordsworth, he focused more on fantastical, impossible ideals than his earthly friend. But is also common knowledge that Coleridge wrote his nonsensical poem while experiencing vivid dreams brought on by opium which is probably the reason behind his falling out with Wordsworth.

Coleridge and Wordsworth

Mr. William Wordsworth and Mr. Samuel Taylor Coleridge were two of the pioneers of Romanticism. These fine gentlemen were friends during their lifetime, but they eventually broke apart due to a change in Wordsworth’s thoughts about Coleridge. They both had the idea and desire to break apart from the conventional poetic writing and focus on something different and simple, something for the ordinary person. While they essentially had the same goal, they had different approaches for the goal.

Wordsworth was deeply attracted to nature as it was an integral part of his youth where he was calmed by the nature. This love for nature was evident in his poetry as it helped inspire him for his writing. Wordsworth focused on riding his poetry of the “flowery language” as he forced himself to avoid writing in this manner. He wished to write in the ordinary language, so that ordinary people can read it and view the extraordinary. His whole concept revolved around ordinary language and nature. He “explored the language and experience of the common people in natural settings.”

Coleridge, on the other hand, was more focused on the mind and its imagination and creativity. He could make “real life slip into dreams and facts reborn as fantasies” Coleridge has had a passion for literature since his youth and he had immersed himself in tales from the Arabian Nights. Through his radical ideas and politics, he “celebrated the strange and exotic” Thus, his focus on imagination and creativity was “strange and exotic” during that time period and this was what Coleridge portrayed in his poetry. Both of these poets have had a great impact on Romanticism, but Wordsworth is know as the father of English Romanticism.

Coleridge & Wordsworth

William Wadsworth and Samuel Coleridge were the pioneers in the field of Romanticism. They became close friends as they shared many of the same passions including nature and the ideals passed down by the French Revolution. While they shared many of the same ideals, there were several differences between the two celebrated authors.
Wordsworth’s poetry is characterized by his simple diction as well as the simplicity of his subjects (often nature). His poetry was revolutionary in his conscious decision to simplify his work. He consciously deleted the “flowery language, the wittily crafted figures of speech, the effusive praise, and tragic complaints that had defined poetry in the past.” The French Revolution had an effect on both poets. They embraced the newly conceived ideas of “social justice and individual rights,” and allowed them to influence their poetry. The setting for Coleridge’s “Kubla Kahn,” is one of the premiere political organizations in history.
Coleridge focused much more on the blossoming of imagination, and it is often the subject of his poems. He grew up reading fantasy and would lose himself in such grand tales as Arabian Nights. He thought of creativity and intellect in a different way than Wordsworth, and eventually it would be their disagreement about such things which would lead to their breach of friendship. “Kubla Kahn” offers much more rhyme than does “Tintern Abbey,” and although nature plays a large role in both poems, it is more prevalent in “Tintern Abbey” than in “Kubla Kahn.”