A Traveler Is Resolute And Independent
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Romanticism officially began in 1798, when William Wordsworth and Samuel
Taylor Coleridge anonymously published Lyrical Ballads. This work marked the
official
beginning of a literary period which had already begun many years before 1798. A
work is
defined to be of a certain period by its characteristics, therefore to be considered a
Romantic work, the work must contain aspects which are termed “Romantic.” A few
typical “Romantic” aspects are: love of the past; sympathy to the child’s mind; faith in
the
inner goodness of man; aspects of nature having religious, mystic, and symbolic
significance; and reconciliation of contrasting ideas to make a point. Wordsworth
flourished in these ideas in a poem called Independence and Resolution. In this
poem
Wordsworth shows the reader what he thinks...