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Romanticism Was The Period Of The Literary Movement Of Romanticism

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1783-1830 was the period of the literary movement of Romanticism which was originated in Europe (wiki). The Romantic Movement was partly aroused as a reaction from the Industrial Revolution. Romanticism appeared as a movement which aimed to reject many subjects such as spirits, souls, and instincts from the previous Enlightenment movement and discuss subjects associated with liberalism, radicalism, and nationalism (Nichols, A., 2005). This movement emphasizes on the sources of aesthetic experience, emotions, beauty and sublimity of nature. One of the most obvious principles in this literary movement is the freedom of the poets to express themselves and their feelings. It was considered that in order for poets to express their true feelings, they have to be creative, imaginative and isolated. And the second obvious principle in this literary movement was the principle of genius, which means creation from nothingness, and that was the key of this movement (Waterhouse, 1926; Smith, 1924).

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This stanza gives the reader a vibe of seriousness and sorrow because it asks questions about the significance of the interchange between nature and human mind (“Romanticism”, 2010). Shelley brings forth the central problem in this stanza about the equality of the creation with the mind of human being. In these lines, Shelley believes that he was caught in nature with its terrifying giant wonders; then he personifies the big mountain and he also indicates that the mountain is too big to understand. Moreover, Shelley used more than forth of the poem to view the main problems about understanding nature of the power of the “everlasting universe of things” by using metaphor as in the case of the word “River”. And what meant by it that by the time passing by the river can’t cut through the big mountain and starts to make it weaker and

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