Some romantic poets believed that imagination was GOD’s way of working the mind. Keats was a poet who used nature and metaphors to explore his imaginative ideas. In the poem When I Have Fears that I May Cease to be, John Keats writes “Before high piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full-ripen 'd grain”, this line is considered to be a metaphor which means he if dies before becoming famous, to make sure you hold on to what he said tightly. Perhaps romantic poets used imagination for the reader to understand the natural element of life. When he said “Hold like rich garners the full-ripen 'd grain”, he wanted the reader feel and imagine how he was feeling. Grain is dead, you pull out the grain when you are ready to put in a new seed. Poets of the romantic era were over imaginative not because they wanted to dream, but because they wanted to expand their minds to new
Some romantic poets believed that imagination was GOD’s way of working the mind. Keats was a poet who used nature and metaphors to explore his imaginative ideas. In the poem When I Have Fears that I May Cease to be, John Keats writes “Before high piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full-ripen 'd grain”, this line is considered to be a metaphor which means he if dies before becoming famous, to make sure you hold on to what he said tightly. Perhaps romantic poets used imagination for the reader to understand the natural element of life. When he said “Hold like rich garners the full-ripen 'd grain”, he wanted the reader feel and imagine how he was feeling. Grain is dead, you pull out the grain when you are ready to put in a new seed. Poets of the romantic era were over imaginative not because they wanted to dream, but because they wanted to expand their minds to new