Age of Revolt
During each period of life on the planet earth, a new idea, religion, or belief comes about. Each period is characterized by having a major idea that is shared among all that is living at the time. Writers and poets that lived in these time periods not only believed in what the others did, but wrote about their dreams and ideas they shared. The age of Romanticism was characterized as a time of love, but if a person was to examine a poem or work that was written during this time period they will realize it was not just a time of love at all. The Romantic period was gilded to be happy and peaceful, but it really was a time of revolt, world wonder, and the rejection of intellectualism.About one hundred and fifty years before the Romantic period was the Restoration time period. Poets and writers during the time wrote in a dull style that had very little imagination. They wrote of actual occurrences and told things the way they were. Toward the end of the Restoration and into the Romantic period, writer and poets began to write creative stories and poems that seemed to contradict the literature from the time before. Poets like Coleridge would write of unusual or supernatural things, and writers like M
During the Restoration time period people did not care about the earth and nature. All they cared about was themselves and what people thought of them in their social class. Social class was a major issue during the Restoration, for example in Chaucer's the Canterbury the different characters in the story range in class from a Knight, to a Pardoner. Toward the end of the Restoration and into the Romantic time period writers began to ignore the social class issue and they became more concerned with the earth and universe. One romantic poet who was known for his poetry on the earth and the universe was William Wordsworth. His poem, "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" is about him returning to the Tintern Abby after it had been destroyed, and he rembers the past and tells of his emotion at the time. One example of the earth is in when he says, " These waters, rolling from their mountain springs with a soft inland murmur"(line 4). The new concepts that William Wordsworth and many others came up with, led to other new ideas and eventually the rejection of intellectualism. The "Age of Revolt" or Romantic time period was a time of revolt, world wonder, and the rejection of intellectualism. If Romanticism ha
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