Citation: Lok Raj Sharma (2022). Exploring Birds as Glorified in the Romantic Poetry. Glob Acad J Linguist Lit; Vol- 4, Iss-2 pp-24-27. 24 Global Academic Journal of Linguistics and Literature Available online at https://gajrc.com/journal/gajll/home DOI: 10.36348/gajll.2022.v04i02.001 ISSN 2706-9028 (P) ISSN 2707-2541 (O) Exploring Birds as Glorified in the Romantic Poetry Dr. Lok Raj Sharma 1* 1 Associate Professor of English, Makawanpur Multiple Campus, Hetauda, Nepal *Corresponding Author Dr. Lok Raj Sharma Associate Professor of English, Makawanpur Multiple Campus, Hetauda, Nepal Article History Received: 16.02.2022 Accepted: 19.03.2022 Published: 04.04.2022 Abstract: English Romantic poetry contributes profound love and genuine reverence of the poets to nature. Birds constitute a part of nature, and love for nature is one of the perpetual features and themes of the Romantic poetry. This article, which aims at exploring birds how English Romantic poets glorify them in their poetry, comprises five poems of four celebrated English Romantic poets, namely Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats. This article concludes that the Romantic poets glorify birds as a blithe spirit, a light-winged fairy, an ethereal minstrel, a blithe new-comer, a wandering voice, a darling of the spring, Christian soul and so on. Keywords: Albatross, cuckoo, nature, nightingale, Romantic poetry, skylark. Copyright © 2022 The Author(s): This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial use provided the original author and source are credited. 1. INTRODUCTION Literature is a cherished asset of creation of mankind. Poetry, a supple form of literature, is rich in emotions, imagination, musicality and implied expressions. It is a projection of life through imagination and feelings (Hudson, 2002). Romantic poetry holds the features like love for nature, melancholy escapism, imagination, Medievalism, subjectivity supernaturalism and Hellenism. Romantic poets were recognized as those poets who followed Romanticism, a movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that exposed the reaction in literature, philosophy, art, religion and politics from Neoclassicism and formal orthodoxy of the prior period (Harmon, 2009). They revolted against the poetic tradition of the eighteenth century and detested the established rules and instructions of the neo-classical poets and provided too much emphasis on passion, imagination, uniqueness and independence in their poetry written in normally used everyday language. English Romanticism can be viewed as both a revolt and a revival. The best accredited English Romantic poets are Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is a British poet from Grasmere, Lake District (Parrish, 2021). He abridged man’s mystical relationship with nature (Parrish, 2021). Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) is an English poet, literary critic and philosopher. He is a focal figure in the Romantic Movement of the early Nineteenth Century (Beer, 2021). Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) is one of the major English poets (Reiman, 2021) . John Keats (1795 – 1821) is a leading English lyric poet (Hough, 2021). This article explores how these Romantic poets treat the birds in their poetry. The article writer takes five poems as a sample for writing this brief article. 2. Birds in Romantic Poetry A bird is a warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate animal distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, a beak, and typically by being able to fly (Soanes & Stevenson, 2003, p. 167). It is a dull and physical definition of a bird, but birds are, much more than these identities, special creatures for the poets. They are the creatures which enjoy both the earth and the sky. They are beautifiers of nature and inspirers for the poets. Nature in poets kindles Review Article