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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