How Does Lord Byron Present Romanticism?

Romanticism is a literary movement the spread through almost every country of Europe, the United States, and Latin America that lasted from about 1750 to 1870. Romanticism praised imagination over reason, emotions over logic, and intuition over science-making way for a vast body of literature of great sensibility and passion (Schwartz). One poem from the Romantic Era is the poem “Darkness”, by Lord Byron, which tells about what the speaker imagines would happen if the sun and nature ceased to exist and exhibits Romanticism. In the beginning of the poem Byron says “I had a dream, which was not all a dream.” (Byron 1). When Byron begins the poem with this statement he shows his first use of Romanticism. One element that might be used to

It is commonly known that the sun warms the earth, so without the sun the earth would stay cold. They knew it was time for morning, yet the sun did not reappear. Another characteristic of a poem being romantic is if it is imaginative and natural. The whole poem is imaginative because it is talking about what it would be like if nature ceased to exist. At the end he says “Darkness had no need/ Of aid from them- She was the Universe” (Byron 81-82). The imagination it takes to refer to nature as a she, and the questions it leaves the reader to ponder on shows the romantic writing style that Byron was using. The other characteristic is whether it’s natural:

And gnash’d their teeth and howl’d: the wild birds shriek’d And, terrified, did flutter on the ground,

And flap their useless wings; the wildest brutes

Came tame and tremulous; and vipers crawl’d

And twin’d themselves among the