Landscape and the natural world were seen as extensions of the human personality and able to sympathise with man’s emotional state. Imagery from the natural world was also used by Romantic poets to reflect both inner and outer beauty in the human form. This was combined with a delight in unspoilt scenery and the “innocent” life of rural dwellers and a generalised melancholy or sense that the rural idyll was threatened.
Instructions
Although England did not actually experience a revolution, (unlike France) thinking people in society were affected by the same factors which so inspired those elsewhere and this is apparent in the poets’ desire to express themselves uniquely and in different ways from previous generations and previous poets.
However, certain themes, features and tendencies frequently occur and the broad headlines in this resource should provide useful starting-points for your own investigations.
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