1. “Poetry is an art…of representing, in words, external nature and human thoughts and affections, both relatively to human affections, by the production of as much immediate pleasure in parts, as is compatible with the largest sum of pleasure in the whole”.
According with what I felt reading some romantic poems so far this is the best quotation for me. Nature is always present metaphorically in romanticism. Considering what Coleridge was trying to say in his poem Kubla Khan we can say that throughout the external nature he is showing his own thoughts and affections. People were not leaving with the simplicity of the life. They just wanted to have more pleasure, which is represented by sexual pleasure, luxury, goods, money and so on.
It’s not easy to express ourselves without care of what other people can think. Hence, using metaphor is an artistic way to say thoughts. Poetry is an art says the quotation.I can say that it is an artabsolutely , because of the mixture of simplicity and complexity of words and feelings.
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