Romanticism in Poetry
Romanticism was a literary and artistic movement of the late 18th and mid-19th centuries. Romantic emotions were expressed in poems, stories, art and music.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
William Wordsworth was a famous Romantic poet in England. In fact, his name is synonymous (与...密切相关的) with the English Romantic movement. Wordsworth grew up in one of the most beautiful areas of England. This area is called the Lake District. Wordsworth's childhood greatly influenced his later poetry.
As an adult, Wordsworth worked together with the fellow poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In 1798, they published a book of poetry called "Lyrical Ballads". This book announced the beginning of the English Romantic movement. The book was a great change from the poetry of the past.
Li Bai (701-762)
Li Bai, one of China's greatest poets, wrote during the Tang Dynasty, hundreds of years before Wordsworth. His free and vivid style of poetry is in many ways an early form of the Romanticism of 19th-century Europe. As with Wordsworth and his contemporaries, Li Bai's poems are about beautiful natural scenes and the people who touched his heart.
Li Bai was born in Suiye, an area of China. As a boy, he lived in Sichuan with his family. At the age of 25, he began travelling around the country. His travels were the basis for his life's works of more than 2, 000 poems, of which about 1, 800 have survived to be read today.
A. He wrote and recorded his miserable experience.
B. He made friends with scholars and kept journals.
C. The countryside there is wild, natural and beautiful.
D. These emotional works celebrated the beauty of nature, and the mysterious.
E. Romanticism is marked by human's strong love for nature and harmony.
F. Romanticism has been a part of human creative expression all over the world.
G. Its poems used language and situations from real life and celebrated nature in a new way.
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