First, the Ming Dynasty was a turning point in literature from poetry to fiction. As we all know, Tang poetry, Song ci and Yuanqu have distinct literary features in every dynasty, and the feature of Ming dynasty lies in novels. This is mainly attributed to the appearance of Yuanqu, because Yuanqu is a little more story-telling than previous poems, and its style is just the fusion of poetry and script, which has played a certain role in the development of later novel genres.
The Four Great Classical Novels we are talking about now, three of which are from the Ming Dynasty. Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty called Water Margin, The Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Jin Ping Mei "the Four Wonders". Later, Jin Ping Mei was banned, and A Dream of Red Mansions came out, which became the four later classical novels. In addition, Feng Menglong's three words (Yu Shiming's words, De Yan's words and Xing Yan's words), Ling Mengchu's two beats (one moment surprised, the next moment surprised), and the history of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the fairy tales are also handed down from generation to generation. Therefore, the literature of the Ming dynasty is a novel, which coincides with the characteristics of the Ming dynasty's continuous March to civilians.
In fact, the Ming Dynasty was also a dynasty of poetry, with many beautiful poems and many poets. For example, I also like Yang Shiqi's poem, which says, "Birds crow in the forest at noon and flowers bloom all over the mountain." It is catchy to read, not inferior to Tang poetry. It's just that the Ming Dynasty didn't create some new genres with distinctive characteristics of the times in poetry, which made novels occupy the limelight.
Secondly, romanticism has a long history and different forms of expression. Romanticism is a method of literary and artistic creation. As early as the oral creation period of human literature and art, some works have romantic factors and characteristics to varying degrees. When romanticism collided with the elegance and implication of poetry, a large number of romantic poets and poets were born.
Among all the famous romantic poets in ancient times, the most representative figure is Li San in the Tang Dynasty: Li He, Li Bai, Li Shangyin, Qu Yuan and Song Yu in the Warring States Period. Li He's poems "Dark clouds crush the city to destroy", "Cocks crow and the world is white" and "If there is love in the sky", Li Bai's bold and unrestrained poetic style and Li Shangyin's lingering love poems, Qu Yuan is known as the founder of China's romantic literature. To understand Song Yu, we only need to know "Xiali Eight People", "Yangchun" and "Yang".
People in the Ming Dynasty are not unromantic, and literary works in the Ming Dynasty are also full of romance. We should know that romance in literary works is not the same as what we call romance now, but refers to the use of exaggeration and contrast to show strong artistic effects. Therefore, The Journey to the West is definitely a romantic literary work. Novels such as The West Chamber and The Peony Pavilion are free and open, full of wonderful descriptions and imagination. From the literary point of view, they are also a manifestation of the author's romanticism.
Third, there are signboards in the Tang poetry and Song poetry and Yuanqu in each era. The focus of the Ming Dynasty was not on poetry. One of the main reasons why the Tang Dynasty is famous for its poetry is its high quality, and the other is the birth of a representative artistic form of poetry-metrical poetry. Before the Tang Dynasty, metrical poetry was in the process of brewing, and it was not until the Tang Dynasty that it matured and reached its peak. Until now, we have learned to write metrical poems, also based on the works of poets in the Tang Dynasty.
Speaking of Song Dynasty, we think it must be Song Ci. In fact, the word is also a kind of poem in essence. Ci existed in the late Tang Dynasty, but flourished in the Song Dynasty. There are poems in the Song Dynasty, but it is not the Song poetry that can be compared with the Tang poetry, but the Song ci. Because Song poetry is the way of Tang poetry, no matter how excellent it is, it does not have its own characteristics. Only Song Ci can be compared with Tang Poetry.
In the Yuan Dynasty, due to the subversion of the Southern Song Dynasty by other nationalities, the Han culture suffered heavy losses, and the level of Yuan poetry plummeted compared with that of Tang and Song Dynasties. But at that time, in order to express the tone of cynicism, some literati expressed their inner pain by singing, so more and more people began to create and study this form of poetry. Later, Qu's expression became more and more mature and refined, and Yuanqu, a new poetic form, was remembered by the times.
In the Ming Dynasty, however, there were no new poetry forms that could represent the characteristics of the times like Tang, Song and Yuan. In fact, there are many schools of poetry in Ming dynasty, including Han and Tang schools, Song schools and even Wei and Jin schools, but they all studied hard from their predecessors and did not create their own poetry brands after all. In addition, The Book of Songs in Ming Dynasty passed the fault of Yuan Dynasty, so it can't be directly nourished by Song Like's poems, and its achievements are far less than those of Song Dynasty, and it can't be compared with Tang Dynasty. Ming poetry is hard to be brilliant again.
Fortunately, novels and dramas played an important role in the literary world of the Ming Dynasty. Accordingly, the creators of novels and operas naturally occupied the leading role of that era, and romance was mainly manifested here. Although there were many poems and poets in the Ming Dynasty, they were not unromantic, but lacked their own characteristics and could not be the focus at that time. They can only be buried in silence, let alone emerge in endlessly.
I hope my answer will satisfy you.