Romanticism: The Art Of Association And Sublime

The book tells a story from 1783 dealing with a ship loaded with a majority of sick slaves. The slaves were the property of the captain, which his insurance wouldn’t cover the loss of slaves onboard the ship due to death as opposed to if they were lost at sea. Therefore, the captain ordered the sick and dying slaves to jump from the ship into the waters in order to still make his profits. Thanks to the information found on Britishromanticism.wikispaces.com, you can see this incident gave Joseph his landscape for the piece which was originally called "The Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)" (2007, May

American Romanticism is a journey away from the corruption of civilization and the limits of rational thoughts, and toward the integrity of nature and the freedom of imagination. In other words, it is a journey away from industrialism or rationalism, which is working hard and earning money. This movement, originally started in Europe and later reached in America. It can be best defined as a thought that values feeling and intuition over reason. Some of the characteristics include the importance of feeling and intuition over reason, placing faith in inner experience and the power of imagination, preferring youthful innocence over educated sophistication, finding beauty and reality in exotic locales. It encouraged people to enjoy the integrity of nature and freedom of imagination. It also encouraged one to have faith in imagination and inner experience. In addition, romanticists found inspiration in myth, legend, and folk culture and found poetry as the highest expression of imagination. Romanticists believed that the landscape was regarded as an extension of the human personality, capable of sympathy with man 's emotional state, whereas nature was regarded as a vehicle for spirit just as man; the breath of God fills both man and the earth. However, romantics would create chaos when the issues were connected with human rights, individualism, and freedom from oppression (Arpin 138-150).

The start of the Romantic Age coincided with the start of the French Revolution in 1789. It ends in 1837. Just as the revolution was changing the social order, the romantic poets were taking literature in a whole new direction. The mechanical reason that pervaded the work of the previous era was replaced by strong emotions and a return to nature. Animals and respect for nature were frequently used subjects in works of his period. The first generation of poets included William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Sir Walter Scott. Their primary contribution to literature was with their lyrical ballads. They used the typical romantic themes of respect for nature and all of its creatures. Wordsworth is above all the poet

Turner it is a lot clearer as to why he depicted such an emotional and vivid work of art in Slave Ship. Turner was inspired to paint this piece after reading The History and Abolition of the Slave Trade by Thomas Clarkson. In 1781, the captain of the slave ship “Zong” had ordered 133 slaves to be thrown overboard so that insurance payments could be collected. This event probably inspired Turner to create this artwork. Turner became an advocate for abolishing slavery around the world and even exhibited this painting during an anti-slavery conference (History in an Hour).

Jacob Lawrence's Frederick Douglass series number 13 is a portrait of Frederick Douglass in his early days of being a slave. This portrait the pics three slaves being led in chains while white people stare at them. One of the slaves is a young Frederick Douglass who was born into slavery. Jacob Lawrence painted this portrait exactly 100 years after Frederick Douglass successfully escaped slavery. Jacob Lawrence did not fictionalize his painting, because he showed the slaves without shoes, shirts, or hats. The slave masters have their guns right underneath their arms, and they are ready to shoot the slaves at any time. The aesthetic value of this portrait is historical. Anyone who sees this portrait will learn something about American history.

Romanticism was a period time 1750 to 1870 in Europe, Latin America and The United States. Romantic Movement didn’t reach to France until the 1820’s. Romanticism main spirit was against of rule, law and formulas that classicism the different characterized of general in 18th century. Imagination, Subjectivity of approach, freedom, Expression and the idealization of nature will be focused in movement of Romantic Literature. In this period industrial revolution with the social and political norms form as age of enlightenment and against of scientific rationalization of nature. Some Literature element of that period will be emotional, imagination and suspense. Romanticism movement brings some of different writes such as John Keats, Blake William, Wordsworth William and other. They came with the different illustrated, poetry that expresses the language, emotion and imagination. Romanticism is a phenomenon characterized by subjectivity of approach and reliance on the imagination, An Idealization of nature and freedom of though and expression.

The topic that I have chose is American Romanticism. When I first began reading about this topic, I was puzzled. I selected this topic in an effort to better understand what I was reading. Before I began reading about American Romanticism, I did not have much knowledge about the topic as history confuses me and I cannot remember it well. Due to the part of the reading that I understood, the question that I want to have answered is the following: do people today take ideas from American Romanticism more seriously than the people of their time did?

Romanticism was an art movement that developed in the late eighteenth century and lasted for about one hundred years. Romanticism is a rejection of the traditional values of reason, order, and objectivity that characterized Classicism and Enlightenment, in particular Neoclassicism. For the romantic artist, Neoclassical principles hindered the artist’s vision and creativity. Rather, the romantic artist emphasized and valued intuition, juxtaposing emotions, and imagination. Generally, Britain and Germany were seen at the forefront of romanticism. The British Industrial Revolution initiated a disillusionment in rationalism and materialism, consequently rejecting classicism.

Joseph Mallard William Turner’s oil painting done on canvas, Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and the Dying: Typhoon Coming On (1840; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) is a beautiful painting with a lot of movement and colors, it is a landscape painting of the sea during sunset. This paining memorializes an incident 60 years earlier, in which the British Empire’s slave trade ship, the Zong, tossed overboard the sick and dying slaves.. Malnutrition and disease on boad the Zong claimed the life of 70 white men and 60 African slaves before the commander, Luke Collingwood ordered that 133 living slaves be cast overboard. Upon the Zong’s return to England, they fabricated a story justifying the murder of the slaves: it was necessary to kill them due to an insufficient water supply. However, this was proven false and when the owner claimed full value for the slaves, he were denied by the insurers. This example amongst many others of the ill treatment of slaves due to selfishness and greed inspired the formation of the Anti-Slave trade movement four years later.

History is the story and knowledge of the past. There are individuals that are interested by history and wish to study it by learning more. It is very informative to know what has happened in the past for self-knowledge. An individual cannot be naïve to the past including but not limited to how literature came to. One can understand literature more when they understand the time period the author wrote during and the way they wrote. There are several time periods different authors have been through with each period having specific beliefs. Romanticism is the time period that interests me the most; it was a time during the eighteenth century and focused on nature along with the individual’s expression of imagination and emotion.

What does a freed soul contribute to a person’s life? Does it, let uninhibited actions flow free, corrupting human morals? Or does it free the soul from the clutches of an oppressive society? I thought that Nathaniel Hawthorne’s commentary on uniqueness was compelling. In the Scarlet Letter, he highlights the pros and cons of being yourself. Given that, he correspondingly shows the lack of individualism that can kill a person on the inside. Arthur Dimmesdale was a person who had succumbed to becoming overwhelmingly different than the norm and yet tried to hide it, thus destroying his life at the end of the book. Hester survives the ordeal through showing to the world proof of her romantic notions, thus being

What does Romanticism do to a person? Does it, let uninhibited actions flow free, corrupting human morals? Or does it free the soul from the clutches of society? I thought that Nathaniel Hawthorne’s commentary on uniqueness was compelling. In the Scarlet Letter, he highlights the pros and cons of being yourself. In that, he shows how the lack of individualism can kill a person on the inside. Examples include Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmesdale, both characters who had succumbed to becoming overwhelmingly different than the norm and yet tried to hide it, thus destroying their respective lives at the end of the book. Hester survives the ordeal through showing to the world proof of her romantic notions,

Romanticism in The State of Wonder Many elements of romanticism are shown throughout Ann Patchett's State of Wonder, through the connection with nature, the relationships between characters, and the decisions based on emotion. One fundamental characteristic of romanticism is a spiritual and rooted connection to nature. State of Wonder exemplifies this by analyzing the connection between the characters and nature throughout the book.

Through the late 1700s and early 1800s, the period of Romanticism blossomed. “Romanticism” very loosely describes the era in which modern culture began to take shape. During the Romantic era, many advancements were made in all aspects of people’s lives and cultures. One aspect in particular has held great value even to this day. That aspect being the expansive amount of literature created during the era. The era of Romanticism had its name for a reason. It can be greatly attributed to the romantic style or genre of literature that defined the period. Romantic writers wove many tales of admiration, longing, and aspirations. They were fantastical, in a sense, and almost the antithesis of realism, even. Amidst the great breadth of literature

Romanticism came to be in the 18th and 19th centuries which emphasized the imagination and emotions of romanticism. Many people viewed this type of literature as the quality or state of being impractical or unrealistic meaning romantic feelings or ideas. During this time many poets were encouraged to express their true colors and individual uniqueness. The Romantic Era expanded all throughout the world, and reached poets such as Keats, Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth.