Romanticism

Romanticism is concerned with the experiences and situations of the common man. The poems “ It is a beauteous evening, calm, and free” and “The World Is Too Large with Us” express the ways romanticism dealt with common people interacting with nature. It emphasizes passion rather than reason and imagination. Romanticism has to do in great part with nature. Keach says “this preferences and situations of the experiences and situations of common people, particularly of those …

…that make readers use their imagination to interpret his writing. He makes people use their imagination by writing about Proteus and Triton who are sea gods in Greek mythology. In conclusion, romantic writers used their writing to escape from modern life, they turned to faraway places, nature and common people. They were also drawn to the supernatural. Romanticism favors full expression of the emotions, and free, spontaneous action rather than writing with control and order.