Is Figurative language part of Romantic Poetry?

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Is one of the elements of Romantic poetry: metaphors, similes, etc. ? Or was that considered elevated language?
 
Figurative language is really any sort of language where the words mean more than they at first seem to. Since all poetry uses language at maximum intensity, figurative language is a feature of all poetry - not just one particular style.

In Alexander Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard" (an Augustan poem) Eloisa is writing from her convent to her former lover Abelard. She writes:

"I have not yet forgot myself to stone."

This is figurative language, it is a metaphor (in an Augustan poem).

In Wordsworth's "She dwelt among th'untrodden ways" the poem opens:

She dwelt among th'untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove;
A maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love.

Again this is figurative language (hyperbole in this case), but in a Romantic poem.

So all poetry uses figurative language, it is not characteristic of only one genre.
 
Figurative language is really any sort of language where the words mean more than they at first seem to. Since all poetry uses language at maximum intensity, figurative language is a feature of all poetry - not just one particular style.

In Alexander Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard" (an Augustan poem) Eloisa is writing from her convent to her former lover Abelard. She writes:

"I have not yet forgot myself to stone."

This is figurative language, it is a metaphor (in an Augustan poem).

In Wordsworth's "She dwelt among th'untrodden ways" the poem opens:

She dwelt among th'untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove;
A maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love.

Again this is figurative language (hyperbole in this case), but in a Romantic poem.

So all poetry uses figurative language, it is not characteristic of only one genre.
 
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