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Romantic Poetry
Analytical Essay # 17254
Romantic Poetry
This paper discusses romantic poetry: Analysis of the use of imagery, based on the direct sensory experience of reality and a preference for knowledge derived from the senses. Examples by Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Keats and Blake.
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1973
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"The Romantic poetry of William Blake, John Keats, Percy Shelley, George Gordon and Lord Byron often utilized metaphors based on human sensory perception. In comparison to the metaphysical poetry of John Donne, in which mechanical objects were the bases for comparison, Romantic poetry relied much more heavily on the human body and its methods of perceiving the world around it. The Romantic school makes no apology for its own particular kind of metaphor; instead, it glories n it, feeling that a world full of dead objects can be brought to life by the superiority of knowledge derived from the senses. There are notable exceptions to this rule, of course, such as the statement by Keats that "Heard melodies are sweet / But those unheard are sweeter." But except in those instances when the metaphor of the senses gives way to the experiences of the imagination, the ... "More papers on Romantic Poetry:
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