Letitia Elizabeth Landon Romanticism

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Romanticism took place during the time periods of 1785-1832. Romanticism was an age of revolutions such as the American revolution that took place in 1776, French Revolution that took place in 1789 and the Haitian Revolution that took place in 1791. Romanticism was an artistic, musical, cultural and intellectual movement that developed in Europe toward the end of the eighteenth century. In Romantic art, there was new attitude towards nature. There was increasing feelings of alienation from nature. Nature in romanticism also had a growing sense of power. Romanticism also bought out new attitudes toward other individuals. In the Romantic era, individualism became important in poetry and philosophy. It also had individuals become more significant …show more content…

The poem holds a rhyme scheme of abab, with nine stanzas and thirty-six in the poem. The poem “Revenge” is a love poem that was written to explain how she felt about her break up from her lover. The theme that the author shares with us in the poem is to not put all your love into only one person because they just might take it and give it to someone else. The poem is mainly speaking of a woman who truly loved someone and enjoyed spending time with this person. At the end of the poem, her lover appears to have betrayed her love and she wants to enjoy his pain since he caused her so much …show more content…

The line that really caught my attention was “I would not wish to see you laid Within an early tomb…But this is fitting punishment To live and love in vain Oh my wrung heart, be thou content, And feed upon his pain”. This quote that Letitia Elizabeth Landon wrote highlighted the fact that she thought he should be punished for ignoring her love and her mind so deep that her mind for being so heart broken went as deep as early death only because of all the pain that her lover put her through. With her learning how, things had turned out between him and the other woman, she believes his undesired love and loving her only for her to ignore him. She felt like that is bad enough to the point that she is enjoying seeing him in

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