Eng 470
Romanticism
This is a literary movement which is rich in features.
List and explain the features of Romanticism in terms of History, Poetry, Art, and Society . Explain them separately from each other. Read slides again if it is necessary ( external sources are not allowed).
History: history plays an important part in romanticism and as an example of this, we have the age of revolutions which includes the American and French revolution, because people started to think different in all kind of ways and also the way in which human beings percieved the world, people started to look for their own benefits and well being and also started to take revolutionary actions politically, socially, cultural, etc.
ResponderEliminarPoetry: in terms of poetry most authors starting to give nature the centre of his poems, they started to show their love for nature, I did some research yesterday about one of the author that most glorified nature and I can mention willliam Blake with his many poems like
The Ecchoing Green
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies.
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring.
The sky-lark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around,
To the bells’ cheerful sound.
While our sports shall be seen
On the Ecchoing Green.
You can really percieved his love for nature in the way he wrote about the sun, the skies and birds. It is mportant to mention also that some authors percieve nature as something organic or alive rather than mechanical or rationalist, thats why they wrote about nature with so much enthusiasm and respect.
Society: people during this period were very commite with their comunity nd well being of others and progress of society, but on the other hand romantics also isolated themselves from the outside world, also men and women started to lead themselves by their emotions rather than rules and laws like in the enlightenment period which they refused and we can see this reflected on many of their poems about individualism.
Art: we can say that authors started to talk about their lives and themselves and makde art out of it writing about their own perspectives and situations like religion, nature, inividualism etc.