The way in which nature successfully regenerates itself every spring of every year is a stark contrast to how human bodies work. However, human minds possess an imagination that can spawn ideas that will regenerate just as nature does. The realization of mortality when relating oneself to a landscape produces a feeling of terror that is known as the sublime. The consolation Romanticism presents to mortality is the imagination. The imaginations of those who use them will survive the progression of time though their bodies will not.
Imaginative ideas are what become immortal.
It is thus by investing in the imaginative and creative processes that one propels a part of oneself into the immortal. Byron continuously alludes to this timeless property of the mind in his poetry. The poetic movement Romanticism offers is what fuels its drive towards the imaginative immortal. Showing how far humans are alienated from nature, by reasons of mortality, the Romantic movement creates a yearning to be eternal and universal like nature. By creating this yearning, Romanticism counteracts the Enlightenment s drive to harness and control nature.