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    The Transcendentalists‚ who were based in New England‚ believed that intuition and the individual conscience “transcend” experience and thus are better guides to truth than are the senses and logical reason. Influenced by Romanticism‚ the Transcendentalists respected the individual spirit and the natural world‚ believing that divinity was present everywhere‚ in nature and in each person. The Transcendentalists included Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ Bronson Alcott

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    Introduction to Romanticism Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as "romantic‚" although love may occasionally be the subject of Romantic art. Rather‚ it 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. Imagination The imagination was elevated to a position as the supreme faculty of the mind. This contrasted distinctly with the

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    TIMELINE: ROMANTICISM 1800-1850  1749(-1832): Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born (writer).  1762: “Man was born free‚ and he is everywhere in chains.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau.  1770(-1840): Neo-Classicism  1770(-1850): William Wordsworth (writer) was born.  1770: Industrial Revolution had an influence on the Romantic period.  1785: Grim Brothers.  1789: French Revolution.  1800 Start of Romanticism  1802(-1885): Victor Hugo (writer) was born.  1802(-1870): Alexandre Duman

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    Makayla Joseph Ms. Oville English III Honors- 1st Hour December 7‚ 2012 Essays: Option 1 Romanticism Write an essay that classifies Theodore Gericault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa and William Woodsworth’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” as romantic by identifying and explaining how specific examples from both works reflect three different characteristics of the Romantic period. In class we talked about Theodore Gericault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa in reference to the

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    Huckleberry Finn: Realism vs. Romanticism The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ written by Mark Twain‚ mainly takes place on the Mississippi River‚ as Huck and Jim pursue their freedom. They persevere through many obstacles and learn life lessons along the way. Twain uses these characters to depict the significance of friendship over society’s moral structure. He demonstrates characteristics of both Romanticism and Realism in his novel to express his ideas of that time period. Romanticism is based on the importance

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    Romanticism in Literature Romanticism was arguably the largest artistic movement of the late 1700s. Its influence was felt across continents and through every artistic discipline into the mid-nineteenth century and many of its values and beliefs can still be seen in contemporary poetry. The romantic poets had high regard and appreciation of nature‚ beauty and the passive‚ female aspect of life. The six most well-known English authors are Blake‚ William Wordsworth‚ Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ Lord

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    Topic: Romanticism What are the characteristic features of poetry during the Romantic Movement?  Literary critics consider 1798‚ the year when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their "Lyrical Ballads‚" to mark the beginning of the English Romantic Movement. However‚ its actual beginnings date back to the poetry of Gray‚ Collins‚ Blake and Burns who are regaded as ’Transition Poets’ who lived and wrote at the end of the Neo-Classical Age. Critical opinion is divided as to when the Romantic Movement

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    Transcendentalism sets the foundation of writing today. The overall message inspires individuals to gain a better understanding of their true identity and knowledge. On the other hand‚ Romanticism does not fully reveal an individual’s personality. The true story‚ Into the Wild incorporates aspects of transcendentalism throughout Chris McCandless’s journey. A young man explores the wild by himself. He leaves his family‚ friends‚ and his belongings behind to enter a door of opportunities. He steps

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    ROMANTICISM Romanticism is a movement in literature and the fine arts beginning in the early 19th century. This movement stresses personal emotion‚ free play of the imagination‚ and Love of nature. To begin with‚ this movement stresses personal emotion. Personal emotion is truly how someone feels in their own way. For example‚ this movement can relate to the play “Tartuffe” in which Orgon can’t give or receive love. That’s his personal emotion towards his family and loved ones. Secondly‚ another

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    Romanticism Romanticism was created by artists who had introduced this art movement in 1750 and 1850‚ which originated from Western Europe indicating the feelings towards the aristocratic‚ social and political to remove the strict rules of classicism. This specific art movement was based from the individualism‚ subjectivism‚ irrationalism‚ imagination‚ emotions and nature of a person’s understanding. Since they were in revolt against the orders‚ they favoured the revival of potentially unlimited

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