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Features of Poetry
Many romantic poets expressed sympathy with the Fench Revolution and were sensitive to the sufferings of the poor and oppressed. On the whole, they reacted to the social and political pressures by giving importance to the individual’s identity, emotions and experience. Their main concern was with nature: it was considered as a goddes, a manifestation of God or a way of expressing feelings. They gave great importance to the power of Imagination, they saw the poet as a prophet and wrote poems full of supernatural events, dreams, symbols and myths.
The main types of poems used in this period are the lyric, ballad [E2] and sonnet [I] [F] [S].
Traditionally, romantic poets are grouped into two generations:
a) the first generation, with Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, is characterised by emphasis on the self and its relationship with nature;
b) the second one, with Lord Byron, Shelley, Keats, is characterised by the relationship between life and art.
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