William Blake's Poems: The Characteristics Of Romantic Poetry

After the Enlightenment Era, the Romantic Movement spanned from the late 18th to early 19th century. Some of the qualities that are unique to the Romantic Movement are the prioritization of feelings, emotion, and imagination over logical fact. Furthermore, romantic poetry has more unique qualities such as its admiration of youth, nature, and heroic individualism. William Blake's poems such as "The Tyger" and "A Poison Tree" as well as
Samuel Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" are excellent examples of Romantic Poetry. "The
Tyger's" deep sense of imagination and admiration of a product of nature and "A Poison Tree's" focus on human emotion, while "Kubla Khan" utilizes the unpredictable power of nature to compare it to its leader.
As mentioned, imagination

After six stanzas of describing such a fierce creation, Blake restates his original statement in the last stanza, but replaces the word "could" with "dare," showing that even its own creator would fear the tiger's powerful appearance.
Other than admiration of nature and imagination, Romantic poetry is often focused on expressing human emotion. The thing that makes "A Poison Tree" such an interesting poem to analyze is that Blake not only focuses on one emotion, he is able to show how he deals with is anger, and how it eventually subsides. In the very first stanza, the audience is presented with two scenarios. Lines one and two explain how even though the speaker was initially angry at his friend, speaking to him eventually subsided his anger. This is evident when he says "I told my wrath, my wrath did end." The next two lines explain how when the speaker was angry at his enemy and did not talk about it, his anger only kept growing. In the second stanza, Blake uses

figurative language to compare his growing anger to the growth of a plant. His anger kept being
"watered in fears" and "sunned with smiles." Not only is the poem exploring the