Romanticism can be categorized into about fifteen different traits. Among these traits, I will focus on three. The reason for this is that I feel these are the most important and influential characteristics of the Romantic poets. The first trait is the extreme emotional response that the poet brings to the work. The second trait is the focus on the unlimited power of imagination. This trait especially important, because, one of the aims of the Romantic movement was to spark creativity in every person. Third, the Romantic s believed that morality and religion were up to each individual who did not need to conform to the social norm. This is important because in this era people pushed for both religious and social revolution. Because of this notion of revolution and change, people developed the notion to try to change the world through self-expression and creativity.
             Mary Robinson and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were two of many Romantic poets in the eighteenth century. By studying one poem from each poet, I see a similar pattern that they use through images, dreams and mystery. Moreover, their poems can be hard to interpret. They wrote these difficult poems to encourage readers to use their imaginations so they would find interpersonal meaning in the poems, which in turn helped spark their own creativity. The difference between these two poets is that Coleridge took a different direction in his poetry, a reader-response method. This method gave each reader the capability to develop his/her own interpretation of the poem. Coleridge was also held the imagination in high regard whereas Robinson is less engaged with the imagination. She described how and what she wanted you to imagine in the poem. She had a specific story in her poems that she wanted you to see after one reads the work, one goes back and uses the imagination to figure out how the story started or how it ended, and what lesson should you have learned. In Co...