Romantic Period And Today

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Romantic Period and Today Poetry is a way a person can express deep thoughts through beautiful and imaginative words. Poetry from the Romantic Period of literature dramatically reveals similarities to articles written three centuries later. Issues written about in the poetry of Byron, Burns, Keats and Wordsworth are being discussed in modern articles today. Even though today we think that our way of life is quite different then lives were in the 1700’s, we can see, through the poetry of their times, how as people, we are really just the same. George Gordon Byron’s famous poem “She Walks in Beauty” cam be related to a news article about the actress Michelle Pfeiffer in which she talks about her inner beauty. Robert Burns, author of the famous poem “To a Mouse”, can be compared to an article by an English teacher writing about a similar encounter with a mouse. The purpose of this essay is to relate the Romantic Period with modern American society. By doing this the similarities between the two time periods and the issues that were discussed will become apparent. Timeless issues such as looking for a person’s inner beauty, not outer, and the struggle between man and animals. Robert Burns was a poet and a lyricist. Burns was widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland. He was best know however for writing in a Scot’s dialect. He will always be remembered as a pioneer of the Romantic Period. Many of his poems come from folk songs he collected from around Scotland, usually rewriting the songs to his liking. “To a Mouse” was one of the folk songs he revised for publication. It is a story about an encounter between man and nature and the boundary that was crossed between the two. Every day without knowing it, you may destroy an animal’s home or even kill the animal. You may
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