Romantic Period -Williom Wordsworth - 2416 Words

Wordsworth’s Romantic Values The Enlightenment, a period of reason, intellectual thought, and science, led some writers to question those values over emotion. Instead, as the Romantic movement gradually developed in response, writers began to look at a different approach to thought. The Romantic period, roughly between the years of 1785 to 1830, was a period when poets turned to nature, their individual emotions, and imagination to create their poetry. Romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats rejected conventional literary forms, regular meters, and complex characters and experimented with emotion and nature subjects in their poems which marked a literary renaissance. Besides a response to the Enlightenment,†¦show more content†¦Many of Wordsworth’s poems, including â€Å"Tintern Abbey†, show how man and nature have a direct correlation with each another. According to Harold Bloom, â€Å"Wordsworth understands himself as a po et, and he understands the idea of reciprocity between the natural world and his own mind† (Bloom 38). Bloom also explains Wordsworth’s notion of â€Å"the importance of the mind of man and its direct link to nature† can produce â€Å"a freer †¦ [and] more direct mode of expression† (Bloom 36). This idea of a relationship between man and nature was unheard of until the arrival of Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads. The significance behind his poetry in Lyrical Ballads is the controversy behind this new idea brought forth to the public during the Romantic era. These ideas served as a â€Å"deliberate revolt against the worldviews of the scientific philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who represented reality as a mechanical world consisting of physical particles of motion† (Norton 1322). Besides the controversial ideas of Wordsworth, he uses nature as a theme in most of his poetry because he is essentially in love with n ature. The rise of factories and cities during the Industrial Revolution depressed Wordsworth, only making him long for the return to â€Å"[those] beauteous forms† (line 22) found in Wye valley. Wordsworth states his disapproval of the modernized