Revolution Reverberated in Romantic Discourse of Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge

Abstract

The outbreak of the French Revolution kindled the literary passion of Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge. The Romantic discourse cast a reflection of the ideological desires that these writers had kept in their minds. They all were engaged in the political, economical and classrelated issues of their day. Having gone through their sufferings in the social reality, they hardened their literary foundation. They sustained their hope to cope with the circumstantial problems in their own way. They tried to solve the problems of human sufferings caused by the social injustice of their day. Their social consciousness helps them to embody and activate their literary ideal and sublimate their afflictions in their literary works. The French Revolution and their social awareness instil the sense of duty as a poet into the hearts of these Romantic poets. They revolt against any conventional ideas which constrain the free speculation. They present their ideal in which democratic social order would be established and accepted. They aspires to accomplish their ideal with freedom and equality, free from the arrogance of the tyranny. Therefore, the imagination is valuable as a means to lay groundwork for their literary ideal buildup. Most of all, their inner mind and inner revolution radiate through their works. Their works are the literary traces of this Romantic discourse cultivated through the realistic social changes.