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The Fire

The Romantics put the individual imagination at the centre of the poem. Power, nature and mortality become things you feel rather than things you are told.

Read a sonnet's turn — where the argument changes directionSeparate the speaker from the poetTrack how nature imagery carries a political idea
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Voice

Who is actually speaking the words 'Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!'?

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