In Romantic poetry , intensity is the crucial aspect related to the poet ' s perception of reality . The romantics see reality through the eye of the imagination , rather than through sensuous perception, a fact that naturally replaces the dryness of objective representation with the intensity of subjectivism . Romantic subjectivism is not meant merely as a personal view of reality , creating thus a multiplicity of individual representations , but it is in fact a pretext for romantic intensity , as something that encourages in the poet not only originality , but the deep involvement in reality. Thus , intensity is directly related to the use of imagination , and therefore self -involvement in reality , as an intermediary between the poet and reality . .

             Thus romanticism comes to identify aesthetic pleasure with truth , as Keats states in his Ode to a Grecian Urn : .

             " Beauty is truth , truth beauty -that is all .

             Ye know on earth and all you need to know . " ( Keats , 313).

             Thus the quest for beauty and the quest for truth become one and the same , as for Keats the Grecian urn becomes a symbol of artistic beauty and of the eternal , at the same time . The romantic poet does not feel any incongruence between reality as such and his subjective perception of it , as immediate reality is not distorted but merely transgressed -he is simply concerned with the " unheard melodies "of reality : " Heard melodies are sweet , but those unheard Are sweeter (.) " ( Keats , 312 ).

             All the romantic poets are advocates of the imagination , but William Blake is the one who , among them, took its importance to the extreme . The visionary poet perceived man as being " all imagination " , and this he meant literally , because , according to him in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell , " man has no distinct soul from his body " , thus imagination being the body of man also , not only his spiritual quality : .