Poetry and Poems

I hope that I’m not misinterpreting your question when I assume you meant the Romantic Movement of Literature?

If that is the correct interpretation, I would look especially at the following poets: Blake, Shelley, Byron, and Coleridge. These are the Gothic Romantics and they were especially interested in the depths humanity could go, exploring themes of divinity and evil, motivation and imagination, and even heaven and hell.

If you want more, look especially to Wordsworth: His "Tintern Abbey" is considered the pivotal romantic work, layered in nature observations and internal revelations.

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Lord Byron, not to mention Shelley. With a name like Percy Bysshe, what choice did he have. Also, modern poet Frank Labaty deserves to be put among those. Women write romance novels, but men have written timeless romantic poetry. Which tugs more at the heart strings?
I meant Robert Browning, although his wife was no slouch at romantic poetry herself. I am not trying to be sexist. I am just trying to stir up debate.
I forgot to mention John Keats(Ode to a Grecian Urn). Like many romantics he died young.

It’s really hard to top William S:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Such lovely words make me melt like butter.

I don’t read romance novels either unless you mean classics like "Pride and Prejudice" or "Emma." I think the love poetry and the novels represent different aspects of romance.
Women long to be wanted and fought for, they want to share in the adventure of life with a man, and they want their beauty to be unveiled. The romance stories usually fall along these lines: the Beauty waiting to be rescued by the Hero.
Men are made for battle – they need something in life to fight for. They have a deep longing for adventure and a Beauty to rescue. I think the love poetry reflects the man’s intense pursuit of his Love.
If we put them together – voila! The strength of the man and his pursuit draws out the woman’s beauty and allows her heart to flourish. Her beauty then inspires him to be her strong hero. I mean really, if a man said what William S wrote in Sonnet 116 to me I would feel so beautiful and feminine. He would definitely be my hero, my handsome prince, and my undying devotion and passion would make him feel like everything he ever wanted to be.
Is this my life? Oh, heck no. Why do you think I don’t read romance novels?
But this is what I see in the poetry and the novels. Man and woman loving and living as it was meant to be.

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No matter how hard I try, I can’t find it. Please help. I believe that it is in the beginning…

I don’t believe the script ever explicitly states that Romeo is a reader of romantic poetry. (Although a director might have Romeo carry a book when he enters for his conversation with Benvolio toward the end of Act One, Scene One, a conversation in which Romeo talks at length about all the pain and confusion that love can cause.)

In Act Two, Scene Four, Mercutio mentions Petrarch’s famous love sonnets and says that Romeo considers the woman he loves to be even more beautiful than Petrarch’s Laura. But Mercutio doesn’t say in so many words that Romeo is an avid reader of Petrarch.

I like romantic poetry, and have written a few love poems myself. Poets like to discuss romantic poems because love is the most expressive emotion, and some poets are very emotional themselves.

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I have an assignment to write about 3 different themes in romantic poetry. They can relate to each other or not. Nature seems to be a very obvious one. Can anyone think of any other themes?

Life, death, humor, war….
Look on some poetry theme websites to find some themes. Then link them to one another. For instance, a romance poem during a war, or a romance poem where someone dies.