romanticism

The purpose of this research paper is to provide a complied analysis of the romantic area and movement commonly known as romanticism. Romanticism can be commonly be defined primordially as a movement that flourished in Europe and America between the time periods of 1750 and 1870. Romanticism cannot be directly pinpointed back to its origin since it created out of the earliest form of human expression and innovation, its beginnings, artistic expression and time frame inspired by nature an awareness of the past, a religious spirit and an artistic ideal’’ quoted by ‘’(baron’s6). Romanticism is estimated to be given birth during to the 18th century and reached its apex during the 19th century and flourished in the hearts of many poets, writers and enlightenment thinkers. The age of enlightenment is consistent with the romanticism movement as the basic foundation was that it strived for creative thinking and not being pawns in classism, Puritanism, and limitation of science and reasoning. Romanticism shaped the modern world from the aspects of literature, music, arts and all types of creative thinking, with the age of enlightenment no longer living in the dark ages of medieval era of societies based on feudalism and chivalry. The romanticism movement was not subjugated towards the thinking aspect of the human nature but also rebelled against the political order of the time period and also Calvinism which inspired artists to create new forms of inspiration. A great philosopher once said that there is a fundamental concept that places the locus on self expression, spontaneity and originality which is that separates the mind from being manipulated by ruling classes of society. This generally refers to romanticism as it shaped modern Europe and the world as it applied a sense of exotic, eerie, isolation, terror on the human psyche is that of which we lacked and make us human. Basically essentially a revival of the spirit, emotional directness of imagination and originality