What are the differences between Victorian poetry and Romantic poetry?

Romantic poetry,
more so than Victorian, emphasized the power of the imagination and mans relationship to the
supernatural. One of the early romantic poets, William Blake, highlighted both of these romantic
attributes in his 1794 poem The Tyger.

The poem, composed of six quatrains,
poses a series of questions to what at first seems to be a tiger:

Tyger, tyger burning bright

in the forests of the night;

what immortal hand or eye,

could frame thy fearful
symmetry.

As the poem progresses, it becomes apparent
that Blake is doing more than addressing a tiger; he is wondering about Gods role in creating
the being (Satan) who introduced evil and sin to the world:

What the hammer? what the chain,

in what furnace was thy
brain?

What the anvil, what dread grasp,

Dare its deadly
terrors clasp.

This extended , in which Blake compares
Gods creative work to that of a blacksmith, is an imaginative way to express the idea of Gods
power. It also raises the question of why God would make something that he knew would someday
betray him. This imaginative questioning is typical of the romantic mindset, which usually
admitted and often explored the role of the supernatural in our daily
lives.

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