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 | | Next came the Romantic breakthrough, with the focus on the act of expression by the individual poet; hence, we pay attention to the actual lives and circumstances of composition of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and so on, with the poets exhibiting a clear sense of individual genius. |
 | | Now, at the Modern era, we finally shift to the objective mode: seeing and evaluating art more in terms of objective criteria of form, language, treatment of subject. |
 | | What I want you to notice is the contrast between the old-fashioned, nostalgic, and somewhat naive attitude expressed in "The Soldier", also a sonnet, by Rupert Brooke, and the weird dream-sequence in Owen's "Strange Meeting". |
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