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Romanticism is a movement of creative art specially in literature which was indeed a revolt of the individual against consensus of emotion against reason. Romanticism, initiated by the English poets such as   Samuel Taylor   Coleridge   and   William   Wordsworth , as well as   John Keats,   Percy Bysshe   Shelley, Lord Byron   was concentrated primarily in the creative expressions of literature and the arts.     "These writers championed the concepts of ignoring restraint, being free in emotion, embracing individuality and immersing oneself in nature, and they contributed to large-scale political and cultural shifts through their work. From a technical standpoint, they moved poetry into a more simplistic, symbolic and more free-form style." ( wisegeek ) Each of these men had a clearly identifiable voice that set them apart from each other, but they all captured the Romantic ideals of individuality, freedom, emotionality and s...

William Wordsworth’s poetry is preoccupied with the role of memory in individual life. Because, memory gives him a clear and powerful expression in the creation of poetry. According to Wordsworth, as in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads , “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings which takes it’s origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”(151) Wordsworth believes that memory to play an essential role in the creative process. He also says, “Any beautiful or pleasant experience does not end at that moment. When we recall that memory we get the same pleasure.”(153)           Memory is considered one of the main themes of the poems by Wordsworth. Many of his best-known poems, such as “ Tintern Abbey ”, “Ode : Intimation of Immortality ”, “ The Solitary Reaper” , “ To The Cuckoo” , intertwine memory which is very complicated and a balanced interplay. In “ Tintern Abbey ”, the theme of memory is used as a powerful and cre...