THE TWO GENERATION OF ROMATIC POETS

Declaration of intents•The intents are written in “Biographia literia” of Colleridge and in “ Preface of Lirical Ballad” of Wordsworth.•The scenes should deal with situations from simple rustic life and this should be transfigured by imagination;•The aim shuold be to make incidents of common life interesting•The most important interest is the relation between the mind and the nature.

FIRST GENERATION

Relevants texts and poetic forms

Wordswort:• “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”• “The Solitary Reaper”• “She Dwelt Among the

Untrodden Ways”• “Daffodils”• “I wandered Lonely As A

Cloud”

Coleridge:•“Biographia Literaria”•“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

Poetical forms:•Lyrical ballads•poems

FIRST GENERATION

The aim of poetryThe purpose of poetry was:• pleasure• “The power of exciting the sympathy of the

reader by a faithful aderence to the truth of nature”

• To give a sense of novelty by immagination

FIRST GENERATION

The kind of language used:

The linguage should be:• familiar and simple • It shuold be the language really used by men

without volgarity or artificiality• The poet shuold give to the reader vivid

sesation.

FIRST GENERATION

Themes• Events from rustic life• Feelings • Experiences • Nature

FIRST GENERATION

Declaration of intents

• Shelley considers himself a prophet, who is linked with the universe

SECOND GENERATION

Relevants texts and poetic forms

Shelley:• “Ode to the

West Wind”• “Ozymandias”

Keats:•Ode to a grecian urn”

Poetical forms:ode

SECOND GENERATION

The aim of poetry

• The purpose of poetry was to communicate the pleasure of poets’ experiences to the community

• They want explain the power of imagination

SECOND GENERATION

The kind of language used:

• The language is difficult, complex and full of abstract concepts

• A lot of references to the classical art also used

• To use the phonological level of language

SECOND GENERATION

Themes

• Nature• Art• Infinite• Imagination

SECOND GENERATION