One of the most known writers for creating the Romantic Movement was Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was born on October 21, 1772, in Ottery St. Mary, Devon, England. In 1782 his father died and he was then sent away as a charity student to Christ’s Hospital. At a very young age, Coleridge was always eager to learn, which brought him to becoming a classical scholar. Coleridge soon became a student at Jesus College in 1791. In December of 1793, Coleridge was hounded by debts and decided to enlist in the Light Dragoons. When he was discharged in April of 1794, he returned to Cambridge; however, decided to leave again without pursing his degree. On his move, Coleridge met and began a friendship with Robert Southey. They were both interested in poetry …show more content…
The Romantic rejection against cultural norms was linked closely with the backlash of the Industrial Revolution. “Industrial changes convinced Romantics that the natural world was purer than an industrial one,” which led many romantics to live separated from the rural areas (Galens 301). Consequently, the Romantics treated nature in almost a religious way, because they “believed that there must be a god that inspired the imaginative and spiritual aspect in humans” (King 34). Many romantics thought that the natural world was a source of healthy emotions because it was inspired existentially, unlike the man-made rural areas. As a result, the writers of the era placed a heavy emphasis on the beauty of nature and its resulting emotions. In Coleridge’s poem, “Frost at Midnight,” he encapsulates the Romantic Period with his detail of nature by describing its “extreme silentness. Sea, hill, and wood/This populous village! Sea, and hill, and wood/With all the numberless goings-on of life” (10-12). Coleridge, as very typical of a Romantic, stresses the beauty of nature in fullest: its peaceful serenity and all that is working together to make a functional ecosystem. Coleridge makes the connection between Romanticism and nature to form a concept that one’s identity and can be found in nature, rather in man-made industrialized
Byron was born on January 22, 1788 in London, England. He was the son of Captain John Byron and Catherine Gordon (Magill 312). His father had a daughter from a previous marriage, named Augusta. Byron was born with a clubbed right foot, which gave him a limp every time he walked for the rest of his life. His father was greedy and sought out money from all of his wives, so in 1789 Byron moved with his mother to Aberdeen. He grew up with a rough childhood, being abused by his mother often. However, he found help when he began reading the Bible and developed a love for history. This eventually led to his ideas for writing and his journeys across the globe (“Lord”).
Texts of the Romanticism era aim to emancipate the ideological values of the enlightenment in revolt to the products of the Age of Reason and exalted the limitless boundaries of creativity through the immeasurable capability of the imagination. The Romantic artist indulges in the gratification they can derive from the supreme faculty of the mind, allowing engagement of social and moral issues through what Coleridge saw as the ‘esemplastic power’ of the imagination. Coleridge’s Beliefs, as one of the earliest romantic poets, heavily influenced the idealized perception of subsequent Romantics artists. Coleridge’s greatest contribution to the construction of these values was manifested in the autobiographic discourse of Biographia Literature,
One Romantic notion present in this passage is nature. The poet concentrates on the relationship with human and nature throughout the poem.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on October 21, 1772 in Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire. He was the youngest of ten children and was often teased and bullied by the others. When he was 7 years old, Coleridge ran away from home. He was found unharmed the next morning. This event has recurred, in a literary sense, in a large portion of his writings. Many of his poems, sketches, and notebooks contained pictures and descriptions of his night spent outdoors. Although it was evident that Coleridge was a prodigy, he did not do well at a young age because he lost himself in women, drugs, and alcohol. He turned to the army, but this too fell through for him because his family was furious and his brother had him released for reasons of insanity. He immediately brought him back to Cambridge. It was here that he met William Wordsworth (Ashton 29).
Since Samuel Taylor Coleridge is considered one of the founding fathers of the Romanticism movement, his poems reflect the many aspects of Romanticism. “Frost at Midnight” is an excellent example of mysticism. Mysticism is the belief that nature is directly linked to the spiritual world, and thus spiritual revelations can be born out of reflecting on nature. In the poem, the narrator does not have just one encounter with nature that leads him to a revelation. He notices the nature in his current surroundings, which probes him to reflect on his childhood and how the lack of nature affected him.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, author of the poem Kubla Khan , was born on October 21, 1772 in the town of Ottery St Mary, Devonshire. Coleridge was a English poet, critic, and philosopher. He, as well as his friend William Wordsworth, were of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England.
Nature is a major key to writing a romantic poem. All romanticist believe that nature has true, raw beauty and is incomparable to anything else. Wordsworth says, “even mention of our human blood almost suspended, we are laid asleep in body” (Wordsworth 44-46). In these lines Wordsworth is looking out at nature and is so entranced that he goes into a state of mediation. He has a deep love for nature and all it has to offer. To romantic poets, nature is everything and some even believe that it is the only thing they
That Coleridge gives the appellation "conversation poems" to his own lyric poems (which also include "The Nightingale" and "This Lime-tree Bower") reflects for us the Romantics' focus on the primacy of the human dimension in the natural world. They are "conversational" in the sense that the poems involve a "dramatic mode of address to an unanswering listener" (206). These poems, then, follow the aforementioned formula of the speaker viewing a natural scene, reflecting meditatively on the scene and how it relates to the self, and reaching "the free movement of thought from the present scene to recollection in tranquility, to prayer-like prediction, and back to the scene" (206).
In the first stanza, the poet seems to be offering a conventional romanticized view of Nature:
Coleridge’s passion for poetry as a child, struggles and friendships in adulthood, and depression affected his proficient writing. Coleridge was born on October 21, 1772 in Ottery St. Mary, England. As a child, he did not have much of a relationship with his mother which explains the close relationship with his father, John Coleridge. John was vicar of Ottery and headmaster of a local grammar school. ( http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/125261/Samuel-Taylor-Coleridge ).
Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco. His father was William Frost, a Harvard graduate who was on his way westward when he stopped to teach at Bucknell Academy in Pennsylvania for extra money. His mother, Isabelle Moodie began teaching math at Bucknell while William was there, and they got married and moved to San Francisco. They were constantly changing houses, and William went from job to job as a journalist. About a year after moving to San Francisco, they had Robert. They named him Robert Lee Frost, after William's childhood hero, Robert E. Lee. Frost's father died from tuberculosis at age thirty-four, in 1885. Isabelle took Robert and his sister back east to Massachusetts. Soon they moved to Salem, New Hampshire, where there was a teaching opening. Robert began to go to school and sit in on his mother’s classes. He soon learned to love language, and eventually went to Lawrence High School, where he wrote the words to the school hymn, and graduated as co-valedictorian. Frost read rabidly of Dickens, Tennyson, Longfellow, and many others. Frost was then sent to Dartmouth college by his controlling grandfather, who saw it as the proper place for him to train to become a businessman. Frost read even more in college, and learned that he loved poetry. His poetry had little success getting published, and he had to work various jobs to make a living, such as a shoemaker, a country schoolteacher, and a farmer. In 1912 Frost gave up his teaching job, sold his farm, and moved to England. He received aid from poets suck as Edward Thomas and Rupert Brooke, and published his first two volumes of poetry, A Boy's Will in 1913, and North of Boston in 1914. These works were well received not only in England, but also in America. Frost returned to America in 1915 and continued writing his poetry. He produced many volumes of poetry, among which are Mountain Interval (1916), West-Running Brook (1928), A Further Range (1936), A Masque of Reason (1945), and In the Clearing (1962). Frost received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry four times (1924, 1931, 1937, 1943) and became the first poet to read a poem at the presidential inauguration of John F. Kennedy. His poetry was based mainly on life and scenery in rural New England, and reflected many values of American society.
There once lived a charming man who possessed many talents; this man was named Robert Browning. Robert was born on May 7th 1812 in a the quaint town of Camberwell, London. He was a very smart yet simple man. He was taught by his paren...
Samuel Coleridge, a romantic poet, wrote many poems that used the sense of imagination. According to Coleridge, “Imagination is the primary imagination that a person holds to as the living power of all human perceptions, and as a repetition
During a time period where an individual 's principles were considered as important as their social class, creators could voice their frustrations through their art. This happened to be the case for Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a famous poet from the 19th century. At this point in history, the social hierarchy divided people in regards to wealth and education level which created an environment where a person’s status in society made up a large part of their identity. The other part would come from their morals and beliefs, such as how they viewed humanity, religion, science, and nature. Two prominent ideologies during this era were the rational thought movement known as the Enlightenment as well as emotion-based Romanticism. Similar to modern society,
Through the poems of Blake and Wordsworth, the meaning of nature expands far beyond the earlier century's definition of nature. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." The passion and imagination portrayal manifest this period unquestionably, as the Romantic Era. Nature is a place of solace where the imagination is free to roam. Wordsworth contrasts the material world to the innocent beauty of nature that is easily forgotten, or overlooked due to our insensitivities by our complete devotion to the trivial world. “But yet I know, where’er I go, that there hath passed away a glory from the earth.