Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Whats Up With Modern Day Poetry Smiting Romanticism?

People don't overlook poems with romantic elements - Seamus Heaney's 'Blackberry Picking' is very romantic in style. However, Romanticism is generally understood as a movement, as the first poets to write poems in 'the language really used by men' (Wordsworth) and to consider everyday events or sights suitable matter for poetry. To do so was revolutionary at the time, and could only happen for the first time once; thus, Romanticism is considered a period as much as it is a style, and so caught in the past. But romantic influences are visible in almost all poetry since, even modernist poetry which reacts against it. To be honest, I wouldn't call your poem romantic. Romantic poems tend to use relatively simply language and syntax, and never wrote in blank verse.

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