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Romantic : Imagination and Nature
p Romantic : Imagination and Nature Romantic : Imagination and Nature For the English Romantic poets , Nature provided a primary theme and acted as the psychological and spiritual inspiration for many of their most profound and enduring works . Three key poets of the Romantic movement , William Wordsworth , William Blake , and Samuel Taylor Coleridge provide a good example of how Romantic poets saw a dualism in nature that consisted of an ideal and also included a "fallen " ideal . Although William Blake was actually not a member of the Romantic movement and preceded the Romantic movement by
a few years , his poetry shows many of the attributes that are associated with English Romanticism . One of the things his poetry shows is a visionary experience of nature and the poet 's attempt to articulate this vision in symbolic terms
Blake 's poems present a simple surface . Often , they are short poems with readily identifiable subjects such as flowers , animals , city-scapes and landscapes . The poems rely on a "sing-song " rhythm and on repeating imagery . An illustration of this is Blake 's poem "The Echoing Green which has a seemingly ideal surface "The Sun does arise / And make happy the skies /The merry bells ring /To welcome the Spring (Blake 7 ) and within these opening lines there is only the faintest hint that ideal nature contains potential peril or negativity
The hint lies within the words "does " and "make " which imply that Divine force must be present in to create paradisal reality . In other...
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