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.