'The Romantic Poet as a Nature Poet'

'During the romanticistic extremity, the notion of record vie an enormous quality within poetry, and I argue that amorous poets represent temp durationment in basis of the sublime. I leave explore the sublimity of temper in the two poems Ode to the West hint (1819) by Percy Bysshe Shelley and sort Four and quintuplet of The Rime of the ancient 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 romanticist poets. I have chosen these two concomitant poems because I bank they both efficaciously portray nature in a sublime way.\nOn first shape of whether the Romantic poet is in fact predominantly a nature poet it is imperative to deduct the social, historical and suppositious contexts of the era. Margaret Drabble states that the Romantic period stretches from 1770 to 18481 and during this little time pattern there was a considerable transpose in thinking. This d eviate was so vast that Isaiah Berlin argues Romanticism is the greatest single pillow slip in the intellect of the West that has occurred.2 The Romantic period axiom a proceed international from in the first place Enlightenment scientific contending and coherent rationality. Romantics challenged towards a more(prenominal) inward, deeper, subconscious solving for their questions they were asking, as they believed reason cannot explain everything.3 However, what gains slant to the Romantics alteration in thinking is that it was not just poets who embraced this change, it was too supported by writers of other literary forms, philosophers, musicians and fine artists. barely why was it that the Romantic poets were so fascinate with nature? I believe that it is callable to three anxieties of the time. Firstly, and approximately importantly was the industrial transmutation. The industrial revolution saw a move away from the rural, as the tike landscape practically becam e urban and industrialize following advances in agricultur[al]4 technologies, reservation jobs ... '