Romanticism Vs Reason

During the eighteenth century a new way of thinking appeared, this was the time of romanticism. It an international artistic and philosophical movement, which redefines the fundamental ways in which people in the Western cultures, thought about themselves and about their world. This movement really started in 1770's and it continued in the second part of the nineteenth century. This age of Romantic ideas took place at the same period than the "age of revolution". …

…felt threaten by the truth. " And all cry, Beware, Beware" This reflects in the age of Industrial revolution, people focused on the advance in scientific instead exploring human potentials and the poet himself trying to reunite the desire of human to perfection and emotion. The use of dichotomy in both poem " life in death" "sunny and ice" suggests although there is a conflict between reason and imagination, but they can be compromised and thus co-exist.