Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The romantic era also viewed as the “age of crisis” occurs from 1750 to 1850. (Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries). It is hard to define the term romanticism. It is the era of movements in the poetry, personal symbols, and abstracts. Romanticism reacts against neoclassicism from the previous centuries. Artists during this period of time produce works that are considered “unusual”. For example, in the novel Frankenstein, Victor criticizes what he was taught at school and what his teachers told him because he wanted to try new things using his imagination, such as reanimating life. It was the period where everything was about how people feel. Freedom of expression was everything for the people who follow romanticism. People who follow the Romantic Movement focus on imagination, individuality which had a full swing in England in the 1760s, spontaneity, and freedom. They express themselves through art, music, poetry, drama, and literature. Romanticism prefers imagination over reason and formal rules. Therefore, romantics are against the rigidity of social structures and rules. Romanticism can be characterized as a movement against the intellectualism and Enlightment from the 18th century. Enlightment focused on reason and logic instead of motions and creativity whereas Romanticism saw diversity in the senses and nature. It influenced the poets to abandon their usual form of verses and diction in favour of a fresher language. For example, the poem “The Tyger” by William blake published in 1794 (during the romantic movement) is an example of romantic art because its style is very new compared to other art works during that period. The general attitudes of the romantics are an enthusiasm for the wild, irregular, and grosque in nature and art. It is during this era that emerged the gothic novel. Moreover, romanticism seeks to find the absolute, the ideal, by transcending the actual. It is a parallel of Victor when he tries to play god and discover the secrets of nature