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    Romanticism

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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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    ROMANTICISM What is Romanticism? In literature‚ it was a movement that took place in most countries of the Western World in the late 18th and 19th centuries. It was thought of as a counter-Enlightenment movement. The Romantic period was a very important period of the history of the England. Romantics generally believed in the uniqueness of individual expression as it is attributed by life experience‚ an important dimension of which is frequently national character. The Nature of Romanticism

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    Yeats as a modern poet

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    Q. 1. Discuss W.B. Yeats as a modern poet. Answer:- William Butler Yeats‚ one of the modern poets‚ influences his contemporaries as well as successors‚ such as T.S. Eliot‚ Ezra Pound and W.B. Auden. Though three common themes in Yeats’ poetry are love‚ Irish Nationalism and mysticism‚ but modernism is the overriding theme in his writings. Yeats started his long literary career as a romantic poet and gradually evolved into a modernist poet. As a typical modern poet he regrets for post-war modern

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    Romanticism Romanticism. An artistic and ideological movement in literature‚ art‚ and music and a world view which arose toward the end of the 18th century in Germany‚ England‚ and France. In the beginning of the 19th century it spread to Russia‚ Poland‚ and Austria‚ and in the mid-19th century it encompassed other countries of Europe as well as North and South America. Romanticism‚ which appeared after the French Revolution in an environment of growing absolutism at the turn of the 19th century

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    Romanticism and Modernism as Strange Bedfellows: A Fresh Look of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive‚ But to be young was very Heaven! O time In which the meagre‚ stale‚ forbidding ways Of custom‚ law and statute‚ took at once The attraction of a Country in Romance! The Prelude—William Wordsworth (Come in under the shadow of this rock)‚ And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening

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    Yeats Controversy

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    Literature: William Butler YeatsIn the literary world‚ among the 20th century giants is William Butler Yeats. An Irish-born dramatist‚ poet and prose writer‚ Yeats is regarded as one of the towering giants of English-language writing for the century. Yeats‚ who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923‚ was one of those responsible for the famed Irish Literary Renaissance movement (Hallstrom). One of Yeats ’ greatest works is The Land of Heart ’s Desire‚ a magical fairy poetry that is

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    Romanticism: Be Naturally Unique Ralph Waldo Emerson once said‚ “to be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” The people from the Romanticism period in Europe during the nineteenth century would strongly agree with Emerson’s words. Romantics thought it was important to be different and unique. Romantics are: Sensitive‚ emotional‚ prefer color to form‚ the exotic to the familiar‚ [are] eager for…adventure…of fantasy‚ [are] insistent

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    William Butler Yeats is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. He belonged to the Protestant‚ Anglo-Irish minority that had controlled the economic‚ political‚ social‚ and cultural life of Ireland since at least the end of the seventeenth century. Most members of this minority considered themselves English people who merely happened to have been born in Ireland‚ but Yeats was staunch in affirming his Irish nationality. Although he lived in London for fourteen

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    Romanticism

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    to the rejection of reason and logic. By design‚ fictitious scenes that please‚ but are far from the truth‚ are the foundation of Romanticism. It prefers to see the world as dynamic and imaginative. Irving‚ Cooper‚ and Bryant exemplified Romanticism in “Rip Van Winkle‚” “The Slaughter of The Pigeons‚” and “Thanatopsis‚”respectively. The first example of Romanticism is Washington Irving’s inventive writing “Rip Van Winkle‚" which promotes imagination over reason and logic by creating a character

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    Michael Garuba Differentiate Modernism from Post Modernism Modernism‚ in literature‚ is the basic concept of new methods through new reasoning. During the renaissance period of English history‚ the traditional values of Western civilization‚ which the Victorians had only begun to question‚ came to be questioned seriously by a number of new writers who saw society breaking down around them. The world was being looked at from a new perspective‚ mostly scientifically. Traditional literary forms

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