Poems
The Romantics thought that people could turn to nature for comfort. They also identified another important role for nature in people’s lives—that of teacher. Now that you have read poems by five Romantic poets, consider what nature teaches in their poetry. Choose two poems, written by two different authors. Identify the title and author of each poem. Then explain the lesson that each poet learned from nature as shown in each poem. Include why this lesson is important for people to learn. Write your answer in two paragraphs of at least four sentences each.
The poems that can be chosen are:The Human Seasons by John Keats
The Cloud by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lines to a Beautiful Spring in a Village by Coleridge
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John Keats has learnt that life is just like the four seasons of the year. He says that life is a natural cycle comparing the first season of the natural year with the childhood stage. Summer is the best period of the years and he compares it with the age of 20 to 40 where man enjoys his life to the fullest as it is the most productive time for humankind. The third season; the autumn is compared with the maturity stage of man (Keats, 2010). The persona says that at this stage tiredness starts to reflect in the man’s acts. He tries to make people learn that this is the period they have to accept that they are grow
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