In 1798 The Lyrical Ballads was first published by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It was republished in 1800 with the preface of the lyrical ballads which gave a kind of format of poetry. There was a switch from the Age of Enlightenment to the Romantic period, and some attest that shift to the publication of this particular work.
Elements:
- Subject low and rustic
- Uses the language of the common man
- Coloring of the imagination
- The language is the same
- Purpose - flowing emotion
- No particular meter - in general all lines
- Imaginative language - it shows with words but brings it to reality
- The translation - the poet tells what it is he sees, but why it is touching as well.
The opposite of poetry is science. However, poetry and prose are the same kinds of things. Music is the equivalent of the romantic's poetry. There is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings - good poetry.
"The Mirror and the Lamp"
- No longer merely reflecting.
- The lamp is poetic imagination
- Poetry isn't just mirroring what the poet sees.
- Orientation turns toward the artist
Poet
- Passionate and full of knowledge
- The translator of nature
- The philosopher
- A man speaking to men
- Know more, greater knowledge, passion/emotional, affected by the world more
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