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.
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