In “The Mill,” Edwin Arlington Robinson shows his response to the industrialism era. He speaks of a shortage of millers. Most likely they have all moved into the city for factory jobs. Robinson’s “Miniver Cheevy” is also influenced by the industrial age. The main character’s name seems to play off of the technology of the car in today’s age - ‘mini Chevy’. Miniver talks about how he was born to late. He wanted to be born in the age before technology (in the medieval period), when every one wore mail chain armor instead of khaki attire. Robinson can relate to the Romantics because this era was also based on emotions. Robinson expresses his feelings towards the current state in the rise of technology.
These week’s poets are still using romantic traditions because to the reference to nature. A.E. Housman’s “Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now” speaks of how he treks through the woods to see the bloom-age of the cherry tree. He is also relating to the passage of time by using the season’s to tell his age. In Thomas Hardy’s “Afterwards,” there is much reference to nature. A man fond of his natural surroundings has recently passed away. His neighbors state how he “notice[s] such things” as how the May month flaps its wings and the landing of a hawk. These observations were “a familiar sight” to him. In “The Darkling Thrush,” by Thomas Hardy, the mood of the poem is changed completely from bleak to blissful just from the mentioning of a bird and the song it sings.
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