Renaissance_And_Romatic_Era

Renaissance And Romatic Era Renaissance and Romantic The Renaissance transformed into the Romantic period through different philosophical and stylistic attributes within the different authors. The Renaissance period was very conservative in the aspect of getting the point across. Shakespeare wrote what he wanted to say straight forward. Gray began to add more human emotion into his writing by including poetic devices such as imagery, and alliteration. The Romantic period concentrated on human diversity and looking at life in a new way. It was a new outlook on life that embraced emotion before rationality. Pope expressed this outlook through his imagery. He pulled the reader into the poem by giving them a visual. Through Shakespeare’s sonnet, Gray’s elegy, and Pope’s essay it is obvious how the Renaissance transformed into the Romantic period through poetic devices. Shakespeare’s sonnet 116 attempts to define love, by telling both what it is and what it is not. In the first quatrain, the speaker says that love “the marriage of true minds,” is perfect and unchanging; it does not “admit impediments,” and it does not change when it finds changes in the loved one. In the second quatrain, the speaker tells what love is through a metaphor: a guiding star to renaissance, man, love, pope, period, imagery, gray, whether, very, romantic, life, through, sonnet, says, quatrain, pope’s, gray’s, even, essay, elegy, speaker, question, poetic, people, never, know, himself, devices, death, begins, written, within, voice, tomb, time, structure