Romantic Poetry

Romantic poetry is often characterized as freedom, primitive, emotional, unstructured, and even dream-like and inspirational. Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and “Birches” are prime examples of romantic poetry. “Delight in Disorder”, by Robert Herrick, also fits into the same category. Let’s take a look at these poems and justify their romantic elements.
“The Road Not Taken” is a classic example of romanticism. Robert Frost depicts many romantic elements. Encyclopedia Britannica states, “…Romanticism can be seen as a rejection of the precepts of order…” This can be seen in that he takes the road less traveled. Not only does he take a different path from the norm, but the path itself has non-orderly characteristic. The road was grassy and a winded, instead of the other that was straight and narrow. This is symbolic in that the straight and narrow road is conformity and expresses the orderly, never changing. The straight, narrow road could be defined...