Celebrated for centuries‚ the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節‚ zhōngqiū jié) is a harvest festival celebrated on the 15 day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. What Is the Mid-Autumn Festival‚ and Why Is the Mid-Autumn Festival Celebrated? The Mid-Autumn Festival is derived from the tradition of praying to Chang-e‚ the Moon Goddess‚ in the autumn for a plentiful harvest. According to a legend from the Han Dynasty‚ Chang-e was the wife of divine archer Hou Yi‚ who shot down one of 10 suns that appeared
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The Industrial Revolution and the Emergence of Romanticism The Industrial Revolution was a period of time during the 18th century originating in Europe that resulted in major socio-economic and cultural changes around the world. These changes in part gave rise to the English Romantic spirit‚ especially in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom’s economic system of manual labor shifted toward a system of machine manufacturing‚ resulting in the formation of factories and‚ therefore‚ modern cities
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Eugene Delacroix’s Contributions to Romanticism Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix was a French artist‚ best known for his significant contributions to the Romantic Movement during the early 1800s. Throughout his career as an artist‚ Delacroix has produced over 9‚000 art works. As such the thesis for this paper will focus on acknowledging Eugene Delacroix’s influence and contributions to Romanticism. Delacroix was born in Charenton-St.Maurice‚ near Paris on April 1798. His father‚ Charles
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Western Europe culture and society from 1800 to 1850 is characterized as being the peak of Romanticism. This intellectual‚ artistic‚ musical‚ and literary movement was in response to the Age of Enlightenment (1685-1815‚ coinciding with Neoclassicism) which was an earlier movement in Europe that held rationalization of nature and universal truths above all else. The disillusionment with the ideas of the Enlightenment and skepticism of the pursuit of reason caused influential philosophers and more
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that it can entrench itself into the folds of history as truly immortal. Two Romantic poems that engage wonderfully with these themes are Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” and John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”. Although they take opposite approaches--Shelley uses “Ozymandias” to express the mutability of life‚ while Keats uses the Urn to show that art can be timeless--both poems revolve around an object struggling against the passing of time. Both “Ozymandias” and “Ode on a Grecian urn” exemplify
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Q- Keats wrote that he struggled to settle his mind on women‚ by turns adoring them as angels and reviling them as whores. Discuss Keats’s attitude to women in at least three poems in light of this opinion. Keats once wrote in a letter to Fanny Brawne “You have ravish ’d me away by a Power I cannot resist: and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I have endeavoured often ‘to reason against the reasons of my Love’- I can do that no more”. The quote‚ from John Ford’s
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com/arthistory/c17th-mid19th/baroque.htm) An example of Baroque art is The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew . This painting is about what was going on in that time. The artist‚ Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio‚ painted about what was going on in that time in society. Romanticism was big on individualism‚ subjectivism‚ irrationalism‚ imagination‚ emotions and nature - emotion over reason and senses over intellect. Romantic artists were more interested in things like inner struggle and passion‚ not on things that were going
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Sutterfield IB English III 10 May 2012 Keats and Longfellow: Poem Comparison “When I Have Fears” by John Keats and “Mezzo Cammin” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow provide a complex perspective of each author’s own description for impending doom‚ and how failure is an inevitable force that will consume them in the near future. Although both poems deal with a similar theme‚ the situations in which the authors have placed themselves reflect through the poems themselves. Keats‚ who speaks with little to no ardor
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inspired after Keats heard the song of a nightingale while staying with a friend in the country. This poem was also written after the death of his brother and the many references to death in this poem are a reflection of this. Among the thematic concerns in this poem is the wish to escape life through different routes. Although the poem begins by describing the song of an actual nightingale‚ the nightingale goes on to become a symbol of the immortality of nature. In lines 1-3 Keats expresses a wish
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Explain the features of Romanticism in architecture. In what ways did this differ from the Classical in terms of both style and philosophy? Romanticism also called The Picturesque Style. Romanticism began in the 1790s and lasted through the 1830s‚ Romanticism is largely a movement that grew out of the lingering effects of the revolt against aristocratic rule that began with the French Revolution (Palmer‚ 10 Jun 2011). This essays will analyse both Romanticism and Classicism differences‚ it will also
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