🎯 Operational Objectives

By the end of this lecture, learners will be able to:

  1. Identify the defining characteristics of Byron, Shelley, and Keats’ poetry.
  2. Explain the concept of the Byronic hero and its role in Romantic literature.
  3. Analyze Shelley’s use of nature and myth as symbols of revolution and philosophical idealism.
  4. Examine Keats’ meditation on beauty, mortality, and artistic immortality in his odes.
  5. Compare the thematic and stylistic differences between First- and Second-Generation Romantic poets.
  6. Construct an argument on how the later Romantics transformed the movement’s core themes.