Emily Dickinson Romanticism

Romanticism lived as an artistic movement in literature and music the late 18th century. It showed a lot of sensibility and passion within the body of its literature. Romanticism put an effort on putting emotional and imagination over logical and reasonable stories. The writers of this period replaced the boring static universal types of literature with more complex and unique characters. The authors that represented this movement the most including Emily Dickinson, Washington Irving, and Walt Whitman. Each of them showed why emotion, intuition, and imagination inhabits a more empowering importance than listening to reason, logic, and even science. Emily Dickenson only shared seven poems in her life, all of which got released with no name attached to them. She lived a normal childhood life but when her father died she rarely left her house. Her poem “Hope is the Thing With Feathers” tells us that body relies on hope. Hope stands compared to a perched bird in our soul, and acts always ready to fly. It gets us through the entire …show more content…
He lived most famous for writing “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, “Rip Van Winkle”, and “The Devil and Tom Walker.” “The Devil and Tom Walker” tells us of a man who took a shortcut home by going through a forest, but got confronted by the devil. The devil offered him a large sum of money to work as a banker for the rest of his life, and he accepted. At first, the devil,”... Proposed, therefore, that Tom should employ it in the black traffic; that is to say, that he should fit out a slave-ship. This, however, Tom resolutely refused.” The devil offered him the banking job because it stayed the next unmoral job, which plays a huge role in society even today. The man tried his best to become a good christian, carrying his bible around wherever he went, but the devil came for him and he lived his afterlife in