'The Romantic Poet as a Nature Poet'

'During the romanticistic occlusive, the conception of record contend an enormous authority within poetry, and I argue that quixotic poets represent temp geo consistent erament in impairment of the sublime. I impart explore the sublimity of spirit in the both poems Ode to the West turn on (1819) by Percy Bysshe Shelley and per centum Four and five-spot of The Rime of the antique Mariner (1797) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the surrounding anxieties of the era that caused temperament to be one of the important focuses of the romanticistic poets. I have chosen these two peculiar(a) poems because I deliberate they both in effect portray nature in a sublime way.\nOn first esteem of whether the Romantic poet is in fact preponderantly a nature poet it is imperative to take in the social, historical and suppositional contexts of the era. Margaret Drabble states that the Romantic period stretches from 1770 to 18481 and during this in brief time number there was a abundant flip-flop in thinking. This flip was so vast that Isaiah Berlin argues Romanticism is the great single shake up in the rationality of the West that has occurred.2 The Romantic period proverb a bump external from previous Enlightenment scientific reasoning and logical rationality. Romantics challenged towards a more than inward, deeper, subconscious reply for their questions they were asking, as they believed reason can non explain everything.3 However, what gains exercising weight to the Romantics alteration in thinking is that it was not just poets who embraced this change, it was in any case supported by writers of other literary forms, philosophers, musicians and fine artists. that why was it that the Romantic poets were so transfixed with nature? I believe that it is referable to three anxieties of the time. Firstly, and near importantly was the industrial gyration. The industrial revolution saw a move away from the rural, as the boor landscape pra ctically became urban and industrialize following advances in agricultur[al]4 technologies, fashioning jobs ... '