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.