The Importance of Nature, Emotions, the Individual, and the Supernatural
The Importance of Nature, Emotions, the Individual, and the Supernatural
To the Romantic Author The growing industrialization and urbanization, which took place in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, brought forth a peculiar response from the artists and poets of that era. This response got the name of such cultural trend as Romanticism. When one hears the term “romanticism”, one is quick to jump to the conclusion that the work has a relation to love. This may not be wrong but the in the historical context, romanticism is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world (Chantler and Higgins). From this we see that the romantic era was brought by the need of romantics to change their environment to that which suited them. The fear of being transformed by industrialization and machines caused authors to return to their roots of humanity, which of course was nature. For Romantic poets and authors, the meaning of the word nature was very different from how we see the word today. Nowadays the word nature is primarily used in a narrower meaning as scenery and is usually opposed to man. The concept of nature, underlying the philosophy of romanticism, gave it quite a different meaning .They spiritualize the Nature giving it both functions of a living being and of divine creature. They wanted to use this era as way of coming from their oppressed being to that of which frees them to be able to express their thoughts and emotions as they saw fit. It is important to know that the happenings in our life don’t just happen but are triggered by certain factors. Just like all eras, the romantic era came to be thanks to a few authors who are called the romantics. The romantic era started at around 1780 to around the 1830s with the pioneers being the likes of Irving, Cooper, Poe, Whitman and Melville (“Romanticism”). In this paper I
To the Romantic Author The growing industrialization and urbanization, which took place in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, brought forth a peculiar response from the artists and poets of that era. This response got the name of such cultural trend as Romanticism. When one hears the term “romanticism”, one is quick to jump to the conclusion that the work has a relation to love. This may not be wrong but the in the historical context, romanticism is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world (Chantler and Higgins). From this we see that the romantic era was brought by the need of romantics to change their environment to that which suited them. The fear of being transformed by industrialization and machines caused authors to return to their roots of humanity, which of course was nature. For Romantic poets and authors, the meaning of the word nature was very different from how we see the word today. Nowadays the word nature is primarily used in a narrower meaning as scenery and is usually opposed to man. The concept of nature, underlying the philosophy of romanticism, gave it quite a different meaning .They spiritualize the Nature giving it both functions of a living being and of divine creature. They wanted to use this era as way of coming from their oppressed being to that of which frees them to be able to express their thoughts and emotions as they saw fit. It is important to know that the happenings in our life don’t just happen but are triggered by certain factors. Just like all eras, the romantic era came to be thanks to a few authors who are called the romantics. The romantic era started at around 1780 to around the 1830s with the pioneers being the likes of Irving, Cooper, Poe, Whitman and Melville (“Romanticism”). In this paper I
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