This is a good definition and explanation of romantic poetry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_poetry
Love poetry and romantic style are two separate things entirely.
How is the poem "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley a Romantic poem? What elements make it a romantic poem? I read the poem a few times and I don't know how it is classified as romantic poetry.
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Scanning the first two websites below, I found these characteristics of romantic poetry: intuition over reason, pastoral over urban, emotion, imagination, nature, symbolism, myth, self, and romantic hero.
Which of these are present in Shelley's poem?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_poetry
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias
Which of these are present in Shelley's poem?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_poetry
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias