The Romantic Poet as a Nature Poet

During the sentimentalist period, the notion of nature play an enormous role at heart poetry, and I argue that quixotic poets represent nature in terms of the sublime. I testament explore the sublimity of nature in the two poems Ode to the tungsten odorize (1819) by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Part quartet and Five of The Rime of the ancient Mariner (1797) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the touch anxieties of the era that caused nature to be one of the main focuses of the quixotic poets. I have elect these two particular poems because I believe they both in effect portray nature in a sublime way.\nOn first consideration of whether the sentimentalist poet is in fact preponderantly a nature poet it is clamant to understand the social, historical and theoretical contexts of the era. Margaret Drabble states that the romantic period stretches from 1770 to 18481 and during this short time hurtle there was a ample transplant in thinking. This change was so vast that Isaiah Be rlin argues romanticism is the greatest single shift in the consciousness of the West that has occurred.2 The Romantic period saying a break forth from earlier Enlightenment scientific reasoning and logical rationality. Romantics challenged towards a more inward, deeper, subconscious help for their questions they were asking, as they believed reason cannot explain everything.3 However, what gains weight to the Romantics alteration in thinking is that it was not middling poets who embraced this change, it was also supported by writers of other literary forms, philosophers, musicians and bonny artists. But why was it that the Romantic poets were so fascinated with nature? I believe that it is due(p) to three anxieties of the time. Firstly, and most significantly was the industrial alteration. The industrial revolution saw a start away from the rural, as the eclogue landscape often became urban and industrialised following advances in agricultur[al]4 technologies, making job s ...