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A lot of people have written poetry over the centuries. One era had three groups of writers. The transitional writers, first generation of Romantics, and second generation of Romantics were more different than similar in their writing. All three groups wrote mos ....

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.... than most. He was a first generation writer, and he wrote "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud." It has four stanzas and a rhyme scheme of AB AB CC for each one. His was a lyric poem, describing a million dandelions in a field. Wordsworth was terrific at putting words together. All groups took their turn at writing narrative poetry, but among them, a first generation writer, Samuel Coleridge, definitely stands out. His "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" took extreme imagination and skill. Along with the nature described, he portrays "Death and Life- in- Death," a combination never before thought of by any of these groups of writers. Animals, the supernatu ....