I, the individual ISOLATION IMAGINATION

as the subject Solitude, a God-like faculty,

of all meaningful melancholy, the only creative force,
experience, introspection, the greatest creative
the centre of life/art nostalgia principle/gift of the poet













POET NATURE CHILDHOOD PAST +
a seer, a living, is closer to mans EXOTIC
a prophet dynamic divine origin, to the cult of ruins,
a God-like creature source of creation, distant places
creature implying a the ideal state of and times, a
he owns a divine presence, innocence form of escape
a deeper a source of pleasure from the ugly,
perception consolation, filthy, polluted,
of reality a teacher, a moral guide corrupted
(the sublime + rural country life) industrial city
the frightening + the picturesque

THE ROMANTIC MOOD