Romanticism elements?

I'm writing an essay on Romantic characteristics and two of the characteristics of the essay are clashing with one another. I'm not sure if this would fit in the "nature" element of Romanticism or the "supernatural/surreal" element of Romanticism.



Wordsworth: "I wandered lonely as a cloud" Where the narrator descrbies himself as a cloud, and in his loneliness flies over daffodils that also personify humans by dancing in a "crowd."



Then there is Percy's "To Autumn" the narrator personifies the beauty of Autumn to that of a human and then he wishes Autumn would whisk him away like it does the leaves so that he can renew his life.



These are metaphors...so does that mean they should be taken as just metaphors? Or are these metaphors that are surreal and never really before used pre-romantic era?



Thanks!

Romanticism elements?
All metaphors have a touch of the surreal to them, because often when a poet "personifies" they are creating a surreal image. To say that this was not done prior to the preromantic period is nonsense. One might say that during the romantic era they kicked it up a notch might be more accurate, but metaphors of this type are found all the way back to Pliney.