Authors:

Murtada Ali Hussein

Abstract:

This paper examines the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI)-generated poetry and the Romantic literary tradition, interrogating how ChatGPT’s algorithmic verse engages with—or diverges from—the Romantic ideals of imagination, nature, and the sublime. Through comparative analysis of AI-generated poems and works by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, this study critiques the ontological and aesthetic limitations of machine creativity. Employing frameworks from Romantic theory, poststructuralism, and digital humanities, the paper argues that while AI mimics Romantic forms, it lacks the lived human experience central to the movement’s ethos. The research concludes by questioning the future of authorship and the ethical implications of AI in literary traditions.

Keywords:

Algorithmic Poetry, Romantic Imagination, ChatGPT-Generated Verse, Human vs. Machine Creativity, Posthuman Authorship,   New Criticism and Algorithmic Texts, AI as Cultural Commodity, Neo-Romanticism.

Vol & Issue:

VOL.17, ISSUE No.4, December 2025