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How is the poem "Canción del Pirata" by José Espronceda representative of the Romantic period? Provide examples and quotations.

What are the main features of poetry of the Romantic revival?

Discuss the similarities and differences between Blake's “London,” Wordsworth's “London, 1802,” and Shelley's “England in 1819.”

Discuss the impact of the French Revolution on Romantics.

Define Romanticism and elaborate on the characteristics of Romantic poetry?

Nature is a dominant theme in Romantic poetry. Compare William Wordsworth and Keats in their poetries of nature. How does Wordsworth's attitude towards nature differ from that of Keats? Illustrate these differences using some of their poems.

What is Romanticism, and what was the influence of various cults on Romantic poets?

What are the similarities and differences between the philosophy of the Romantic poets Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge?

Why did Byron and Shelley turn against Wordsworth?

romantic poets Do you think the romantic poets were escapists ?Yes / no ?  State with reasons.

Identify two themes that “ LONDON” by William Blake and “ OZYMANDIAS” by Percy Bysshe Shelley have in common. Then discuss how your chosen themes reflect the Romantic Period.

Construct an argument about the supernatural in William Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” and Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan."

What are the characteristic features of poetry during the Romantic Movement?

What are some traits of romanticism in poetry?

"In Romantic poetry an idea of the poet is usually presented as a visionary figure, with an important role to play as prophet (in both political and religious terms)." According to this quotation what can we say about the representation of Romantic poets?

Discuss the causes of the ROMANTIC REVOLUTION in English poetry?

What is the reason behind calling some Romantic poets minor Romantic poets?

How much is Romantic poetry focused on nature and how much on the poet who writes about nature?

Compare Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Love's Philosophy" to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" using two elements of romanticism.

What was the phillosophy of the Romantic poets Coleridge and Wordsworth?

While male Romantics were exalting natural and classical subjects, what women Romantic texts feature domestic subjects or symbols? i.e. While Wordsworth and Coleridge were exalting natural subjects and landscapes and Byron and Keats and Shelley focused on classical subjects such as the hero, the femme fatal, or a mythological figure, I was wondering if women poets might be using more common-place subjects.  What specific women's poems feature domestic subjects or symbolism?