The romantics consistently saw the exterior world in general and nature in particular as the gateway to the unknown, to the mysteries of life, it would appear from works such as some writers are loathe to search for a transcendental order in the great unknown, preferring instead to anchor their works in the tangible world.
the poetry of a people who shun abstraction and think in images, whose visual art finds expression not on canvas but in words, the factual, materialistic mind that produced these poems manifest itself above all visaully.
Hence, woman is a visible object discovered and seen throught the narrators eyes, within that description, streams, seed, glass, cristal, dew, stars and candles are evoked in order to depict her eyes, blood, berries, roses, embers and forges are called upon to visual her checks her skin is like lime, foam, lilies, snow, chalk or, when she is dead, like coal, her hair like gold or marigold, she is slim as hound, her breast are white as a calf and shaped like bird’s eggs, she is likened to harps, swans, roses, trees or gain stolen from the narrator’s barn.
