Romantic Subjectivity in the Mary Oliver’s Selected Poems

Self expression in the Romantic Age was one of the most important elements for the poets as well as the other artists. They gave values to the introspections of the individuals in any art be it painting or music or literature. Free from all the conventional rules which were dominating the Neoclassical age, it saw a drastic change in expressing the experiences in a very different way and manner that a writer had taken in his own life. Contradictory to the Age of Reason or Enlightenment or the age of Neoclassicism, the Romantic Age advocates free expressions of oneself, language of the common people, love for the natural world and its remarkable beauty etc. which not only dominated this particular age, but also the following ages. In this modern age, poets, scientists, environmentalists, philosophers, social workers, common people, and even the politicians have started looking back to the Romantic Age that teaches the race to love the nature and its beauty as well as its necessity for balancing the degrading ecosystem of the mother Earth. Here in this paper, “Romantic Subjectivity in the Mary Oliver’s Selected Poems,” Mary Oliver’s selected poems will be observed as Romantic subjectivity including an outline about the Romanticism, Subjectivity, Classicism, Neoclassicism, Ecosystem.