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.