🎯 Operational Objectives

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

  1. Identify the key themes and stylistic features of Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s poetry.
  2. Explain how Wordsworth redefines poetry through nature, memory, and personal reflection (Tintern Abbey, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud).
  3. Analyze Coleridge’s use of the supernatural and the uncanny in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
  4. Compare Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s approaches to nature and imagination.
  5. Discuss how Romantic poetry departs from Neoclassical traditions, emphasizing emotion and the Sublime.
  6. Develop a critical response exploring how Wordsworth and Coleridge shaped the Romantic movement.