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romantic elements:-ballads structure and themes: He adopted the rhythm and the rhyme patterns of the medieval ballads - medieval settings ideal for the atmosphere of some of his poems mystery and the supernatural: some of his poems are unfinished which increases their sense of mystery nature: it plays an important part in his poems, he doesnt find in nature happiness and consolation, - exoticism: some poems are set in distant places and times, - music He makes use of special sounds, words and devices in order to create unreal atmosphere in his poems.
laws of their own. Imagination is contrasted with fancy which is inferior to it since it is a kind of mechanical and logical faculty which enables a poet to aggregate and associate metaphors, similes and other poetical devices.