Romantic critical perspectives

Ecocritical

- Celebrate nature’s beauty, power + spiritual significance

- Critique industrial progress

- Critique human disconnection from nature

Romantic historical

- Understand poem in relation to Romantic ideals

- Emphasis on emotion, nature, individualism, sublime, rebellion against industrialisation + rationalism

Psychoanalytical

- Emotion, subconscious desires, dreams + internal conflicts

Existential

- Themes of mortality

- Search for meaning, alienation + human experience

Feminist

- Consideration of gender roles

- Especially where female voices or perspectives appear

- Where Romantic ideals challenge or reinforce patriarchal values

Reader response lens

- Appeals to individual emotional response

- Acknowledges how personal experience shapes interpretation

Marxism

- Political + economic theory

- Views history as a struggle between classes

- Aims for a classless society

- Advocates collective ownership of means of production to eliminate exploitation

Freud

- Focuses on unconscious mind

- Suggests human behaviour is driven by repressed desires + childhood experiences