ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AGES ERA PERIOD

RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form?
A
the fractal
B
the figment
C
the fragment
D
the aubade
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Romantic poets also used specific poetic forms: odes, lyrical ballads, and sonnets were popular among the Romantics.

Detailed explanation-2: -The sonnet was a popular form of poetry during the Romantic period: William Wordsworth wrote 523, John Keats 67, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy Bysshe Shelley 18.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wordsworth is best known for Lyrical Ballads, co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and The Prelude, a Romantic epic poem chronicling the “growth of a poet’s mind.”

Detailed explanation-4: -Romantic poetry is the poetry of sentiments, emotions and imagination. Romantic poetry opposed the objectivity of neoclassical poetry. Neoclassical poets avoided describing their personal emotions in their poetry, unlike the Romantics..

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