Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey And Ode To The West Wind

Romantic literature champions the beauty of the world and the inherent goodness of human beings, and Romantic verse is highly structured and

Romanticism is an intellectual, spiritual, and literary movement that begins at the start of the nineteenth century and concludes at the beginning of the twentieth century. Of the many characteristics that are associated with Romanticism, the characteristics that are most evident in literature from this period are the characteristics of individuality and imagination. The author Edgar Allen Poe exhibits these characteristics in his works “The Black Cat”, and the “The Raven”.

Romanticism is the involvement of emotion, fantasy, and intuition in a story. It happens to be the opposite of rationalism which involves logic, reason, and rationality in a story. There happens to be five romantic elements to choose from. They include: dissatisfaction with city life, desire to connect with nature, concern of individualism, nostalgia for the past, and supernatural interest. Of the six stories we could choose from all of them have some part of romanticism in them in one way or another. I chose to express a desire to connect with nature in “Rip Van Winkle”, “Thanatopsis”, and Walden.

The Romanticism art movement praised imagination over reason, emotions over logic, and literature over science. The Romanticism artists were known for replacing the classical 18th century literature heroes with much more complex and passionate characters. Romanticism focuses on self-expression and individual uniqueness that does not lend itself to be defined nor controlled by society. The landscape on Romanticism was commonly displayed in cool rich colors and untamed peaceful surroundings. In Romanticism, nature was used to represent the extension of the human personality, the capability of feeling love, serenity, and sympathy.

Romanticism. Romanticism is characterized by its impressive expressiveness in harmonic and thematic process with an increasing weight of chromatic and dissonant elements. There is a new tendency to give a particular importance to timber, texture and rhythm. Like the Renaissance after the Middle Ages, Romantic composers want to express the new-found independence of the humanity that is no longer under the constraining influence of the strict model that classical composers follow. Some Romantic compositions express a powerful individualism while others express the beauties and terrors of nature, but the most common theme is nationalism.

Literature helped describe the movement of Romanticism because Romantics embraced nature, so they exalted the creative individual in the person of the hero. (Fiero) Much like the hero’s from stories of the past, the Romantic hero was an epic character with an awesome amount of ambition and determination. Unlike the fictional hero’s of the past that defended the traditions and moral values of a society, the Romantic hero might challenge to seek or reform them. (Fiero)

Imagine a candle-lit dinner on a starry night in Paris, the Eiffel Tower just in view with dazzling lights shining into the night. This image is probably what you think of when you hear the word “romantic,” correct. However, this image is a stumbling block when people think of the “Romanticism Period” in literature. Where “romantic” means having a lovely time with the person you love the most, “Romanticism” is a piece of literature written with key themes in mind. Those themes tend to be a strong emotion, imagery or worship of nature, and individuality and subjectivity. The peak of inspiration for these pieces was in the years 1800-1850, and there are famous poems that are well loved today from this period. Many of the poets that you enjoy reading and know are, in actuality, Romanticism writers, and instill the themes above in our minds.

There are many examples of Romanticism in this novel mostly in Hester and Pearl. A great example is when Hester takes the A off in the forest. This has a lot of romanticism apart of it because, she is removing the stamp the puritans have given her and she’s doing it in nature. It’s really important that she’s doing it in nature because in Romanticism they believed nature was special. Then there was a play in puritan ways because

The three main ideas associated with Romanticism are emotion over reason, personal fulfillment, and follow your heart. These ideas were often associated with living simply on a farm and being with nature. Often they reflected more of a middle class lifestyle. Two authors I read about that used this style of writing are Goethe and Monzaemon.

During the eighteenth century, it was a time where people were obsessed with rationality and scientific precision. In response to this, artists created a literary movement- the Romantic period. This period was not just about love stories; it was a social movement revolved around the concept of imagination. Poets used imagination to escape the troubles going on in the real world. Two authors who used their imagination during this time are William Wordsworth and John Keats. Both Wordsworth and Coleridge use the imagination to escape their present reality. While Wordsworth's speaker in "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey" succeeds in making his present moment better, in Keats' "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", the speaker gets trapped in a dangerous past. Even though they both used imagination, the outcome of it was different.

Romanticism emphasizes of the imagination and emotions, usually impractical or unrealistic, incorporating romantic feelings or ideas. Emil and Marie’s story appears very romantic to readers, the typical “Romeo and Juliet” some might say. Emil and Marie met at a very young age, and everyone recalls that Marie still appeared beautiful as ever. They described her as “a little Bohemian girl, Marie Tovesky, who was tying her handkerchief over the kitten's head for a bonnet. She was a dark child, with brown curly hair, like a brunette doll's, a coaxing little red mouth, and round, yellow-brown eyes. Every one noticed her eyes; the brown iris had golden glints that made them look like gold-stone, or, in softer lights, like that Colorado mineral called tiger-eye.” Alexandra’s dream of the man carrying her through the wheat fields actually ties into romanticism as well. Alexandra felt so achy and heavy long to be free of her own body, resulting in the dream. “As she lay with her eyes closed, she had again, more vividly than for many years, the old illusion of her girlhood, of being lifted and carried lightly by some one very strong. He was with her a long while this time, and carried her very far, and in his arms she felt free from pain. When he laid her down on her bed again, she opened her eyes, and, for the first time in her life, she saw him, saw him clearly, though the room was dark, and his face was covered. He was

Romantic writers used alot of figurative language such as similes, personification, metaphors. These techniques offered romantic writers to really express themselves and their mood and message. In previous styles they couldn't really do that the way they wanted. I think these techniques and styles were effective as not many people understanded them or relate to

In "Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey", Wordsworth uses imagination to help him and others to live in the physical world peacefully. He recalls playing in Tintern Abbey, a forest nearby there and played in it when he was young. Now he comes back for different reasons. He escapes the world which is individualism and goes to the forest to get away from all the burden. He tells his young sister that she can always come here to get away from her problems as well. In the poem, Wordsworth uses nature to solve problems in life.

Romanticism allowed poets to have the world at their fingertips. In the course of the American and French Revolutions, political, social, and economic traditions were being shaken. No longer were they bound to what was thought of as appropriate topics for writing. These poets were allowed to use firsthand experience to guide their creativity. Romantics created their poetry by using their own heartfelt emotions. William Blake, I believe, was a visionary with more of a theological or spiritual tone in both his writings and his paintings, whereas William Wordsworth used temporal viewpoints to help him describe his reality of nature. Blake and Wordsworth both used their talent for creating art and

In conclusion, many Romantic poets showed a fascination with nature, and especially with animals. They used animals as symbols for many things, or for another way of viewing the world, but no matter what the use, animals played a major part in the works of Romantic poets.