The American manifestation of Romanticism was Transcendentalism and it stood as one of the major American Revolution. Transcendentalists believed God to be supreme and most mighty as he animated everything. It was a reaction which stood against modernism and rationalism. It was marked by the mystic belief in a spiritual state that transcended the physical and the factual and the perfect state could only be attained by one’s own intuition and reflection. They always considered people to be divine from within and because people had a strong mind, which was present within everyone, transcendentalists felt that they could rule over the world with the help of their mind. For them truth prevailed everywhere in the nature, giving …show more content…
It had a huge impact on the people of America during the early decades of the 19th century. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the founder of Transcendentalism, he became very popular along with his ideas and people started dealing with life positively. They started seeing things optimistically and it was highly influential everywhere. However, soon enough there came another group of people who hesitated to believe in the idea of optimism and rather chose to start a new form of writing where they only focused on showing people the reality and not lying about a better world. These were the Dark Romantics who did not believe in the contented future of mankind. They maintained a strong relationship with the Romantics and for the purpose of pessimistic ideas; this whole concept was described as Dark Romanticism and this occurred during the 19th century, the realist era which was then replaced by the modernists of the 20th