ROMANTICISM
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 characteristic of Romanticism is the free play of imagination. Many artists have vivid imaginations and use them in their writings. William Wordsworth used the characteristic free play of imagination in his poem “Ode on Intimations of Immortality”. For example, in the 7th stanza, the speaker beholds a six year old boy and imagines his life and the love his mother and father feel for him. He sees the boy playing with some imitated fragment of adult life, “some little plan or chart,” imitating a “wedding or a festival” or “a mourning or a funeral.” The speaker imagines that all human life is a similar imitation. He used his imagination freely in his poem.
Thirdly, the last characteristic is Love of nature. Many artists use this characteristic. They describe nature and how it is or was in their point of view. William Wordsworth also used the characteristic Love of nature in his poem “Ode on Intimations of Immortality”. For example, in the first stanza, when the speaker says that there was a time when all of nature seemed dreamlike to him, “appareled in celestial light,” and that that time is past; “the things I have seen I can see no more.” In the second stanza, he says that he still sees the rainbow, and that the rose is still lovely; the moon looks around the sky with delight, and starlight and sunshine are each beautiful. He explained many different ways of his love for nature in his poem. To conclude, Romanticism is a movement in literature that
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 characteristic of Romanticism is the free play of imagination. Many artists have vivid imaginations and use them in their writings. William Wordsworth used the characteristic free play of imagination in his poem “Ode on Intimations of Immortality”. For example, in the 7th stanza, the speaker beholds a six year old boy and imagines his life and the love his mother and father feel for him. He sees the boy playing with some imitated fragment of adult life, “some little plan or chart,” imitating a “wedding or a festival” or “a mourning or a funeral.” The speaker imagines that all human life is a similar imitation. He used his imagination freely in his poem.
Thirdly, the last characteristic is Love of nature. Many artists use this characteristic. They describe nature and how it is or was in their point of view. William Wordsworth also used the characteristic Love of nature in his poem “Ode on Intimations of Immortality”. For example, in the first stanza, when the speaker says that there was a time when all of nature seemed dreamlike to him, “appareled in celestial light,” and that that time is past; “the things I have seen I can see no more.” In the second stanza, he says that he still sees the rainbow, and that the rose is still lovely; the moon looks around the sky with delight, and starlight and sunshine are each beautiful. He explained many different ways of his love for nature in his poem. To conclude, Romanticism is a movement in literature that