In the late 1700’s, there was an artistic movement that spread from continent to continent and helped humanity understand individualism. That movement was known as romanticism. During the Romantic era, poets like Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, and William Wordsworth wrote works that opposed politics, appealed to the reader’s senses, told a story with a theme, and most works alluded to the Bible in one way or another. The art that was made in that era were all similar, but they all vastly differed in their own ways. William Blake’s works were some of the most memorable of the Romantic period. He made works that allowed the reader to look deeper into religion, such as “The Tyger” and “The Lamb”, which are poems that contrast with each other. In “The Tyger”, Blake describes a fearsome creature, beautiful yet frightening. It asks how a benevolent god could create such a monster. In “The Lamb”, Blake writes a nursery rhyme asking a gentle lamb who created it. Both of these poems work together to question who the man upstairs is, and if he is all-benevolent. Most romantic era poets allowed the …show more content…
His most widely regarded work is titled “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. This poem is a story about a mariner who shoots down an albatross, a bird that is seen as a good omen. As a result, the mariner is tormented by demons and he pays an eternal price. Coleridge used literary devices to craft his poems. In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, Coleridge uses alliteration and a ballad-like rhythm such as in “The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew” (line 103). As in most poems, he also used intricate imagery in this poem, such as “All in a hot and copper sky, / The bloody Sun, at noon, / Right up above the mast did stand, / No bigger than the Moon”(lines 112-115). Coleridge published this poem in a series of works with another romantic poet, William Wordsworth, called “Lyrical