Romantic poetry

1. The first poem I read was from William Blake called The Shepherd. The Shepherd is about a shepherd who lives a quiet life. The shepherd William Blake is talking about is very connected with his lambs and I feel like when reading it that Blake might have been a little jealous of the shepherd because of his slow pace life. 

The romanticism that sticks out in The Shepherd is the individuality of the shepherd. 

"From the morn to the evening he strays; 

He shall follow his sheep all the day,

And his tongue shall be filled with praise.

I think that Blake is sort of jealous of the shepherd because of his peaceful life style. Blake probably wished he could have lived the life of a shepherd.

2. The poem I read by William Wordsworth was To My Sister. I felt like this poem wasn't necessarily about his sister but about bonds that can created between people when you just let things happen, and don't try to put names and labels on everything.

I felt like this poem was romantic because of the rebellion expressed in the poem.

"No Joyless forms shall regulate

Our living calendar:

We from to-day, my friend, will date

The opening of the year."

Here and in other parts of the Poem Wordsworth is expressing that everything doesn't have to be regulated. He saying that it doesn't matter what the date is lets go out and have fun.

"And bring no book: for this one day

We'll give to idleness."

this quote expresses how if you just go out and don't plan for anything sometimes the best connections will be made.

3. The Poem I read by George Gordon was called Remind Me not, Remind Me Not. I believe that this poem is about Gordon not wanting to be reminded of the love he shared with some girl. At the beginning of the poem it seems to be describing Gordon and some other girl right after they've had sex and they're just laying there loving one another. Towards the end of the poem he starts talking about how he dreams of the time they spent and wishes it could continue. 

"dreamt last night our love return'd,

And, sooth to say, that very dream

Was sweeter in its phantasy."

I feel like this poem is romantic because of the love shared between these two people. I know that romanticism isn't exactly the same thing as what we consider romantic but in this poem what we consider romantic is the romanticism in this poem. Wordsworth really loves this women and you and you can tell by reading this poem that him and the girl in the poem just had made really good love and after doing so it was being expressed very strongly through anything that they did. Even breathing.

"And lips, though silent, breathing love."

4. The poem I read by Percy Bysshe Shelley was To The Moon . I really liked this poem by Shelley because it was easy to comprehend and I didn't have to read it five times. This poem is about the moon being lonely. Shelley asks the moon "Art though pale from weariness." You can tell reading this poem that Shelley probably spent many nights looking up at the stars and wondering why the moon was all by itself.

I think that this poem is romantic because Shelley feels the loneliness of the moon. He looks at the moon like a person and feels sorry for it because it has no one to connect with. He feels sorry for it because there are all the stars in the galaxy and they all have each other but the moon is all by itself. 

"Wandering companionless

Among he stars that have a different birth,-

And ever changing, like a joyless eye

That finds no object worth its constancy?

5. The Poem I read by John Keats was Dedication. To Leigh Hunt,Esq. I feel like this poem is about a girl that he has gone away, but he doesn't mind. In the poem he talks about how things are leaving and going and I think that expresses how some girl left him. 

"GLORY and loveliness have passes away;

For if we wander out in early morn,

No wreathed incense do we see upborne

Into the east, to meet the smiling day"

I believe that this poem is romantic because of the fact that she is leaving him but he doesn't care. This really represents romanticism.

"Pan is no longer sought, I feel a free

A leafy luxury, seeing I could please

With these poor offerings, a man like thee."

As you can tell when he says he pan is no longer sought he saying that he doesn't want to be with her anymore. And when He says " Seeing I could please with these poor offerings, a man like these" he saying he's happy with himself and doesn't need her.