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A 5 page paper which
examines how the Romantic era poets often used exotic and archaic elements in their
writing. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of the senses or passions against the intellect and of the individual against the consensus. Its first stirrings may be seen in the work of William Blake (1757-1827), and in
continental writers such as the Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the German playwrights Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" (Moore). For the most part the Romantic writers
were more often than not associated with poets and these poets seemed immersed in presenting the reader with images of the exotic and the archaic. The following paper examines Wordsworth,
Blake, and Keats, demonstrating how they use the archaic and exotic in their Romantic poetry. The Keats Ode to a Grecian Urn While this particular poem is actually
more directed at a piece of art, it is a piece of art which instills in the narrator a sense of desire to note the nature that inspired the art,
and the desire to truly experience such beauty and simplicity. We note this in the opening lines which are as follows: "Thou still unravishd bride of quietness,/ Thou foster-child of
silence and slow time,/ Sylvan historian, who canst thus express/ A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: / What leaf-fringd legend haunts about thy shape" (Keats 1-5). There is
clearly the use of the archaic in the art piece itself, and its history, which presents us with sense of the exotic as well for there is a "legend" that
"haunts." These are very exotic elements that lead the reader to a different realm, which is perhaps what the exotic is supposed to do. Throughout his examination of this
urn we see the use of nature that eventually leads us towards the conclusion of the poem wherein Keats begins his last stanza stating that "With forest branches and the
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