Imagine your best friend. Now imagine if they did not want to be your friend anymore or imagine that they pass away. How would you feel? Of course you would feel depressed, and it will impact you in some way. People get horribly affected and the experience ruins them, causing them to be not right in the mind . The effect of strong emotions over reason became popular during the Romanticism period in American literature. Romanticism was a movement away from belief in reasoning in the Enlightenment era to belief in the senses, feelings, and imagination. The texts emphasize emotions and imagination to a point of irrationalization. Authors of this time often included supernatural elements in their works. Two texts from the Romantic era are“The Raven”
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This is shown through obsession, superstition, and fear, as was exemplified in the texts “The Raven” by Poe and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Irving, both written during the Romantic era. "The Raven" is Romantic because it has the characteristics of strong emotions, the unknown, and imagination. The man trying to deal with loss of a loved one causes him to feel extreme emotions. His imagination is uncontrollable and the speaker imagines hearing things and imagines that there are angels in the room. The raven is thought of as a devil by the speaker, and the speaker has questions about Lenore after she died, which are the characteristics of the unknown because the speaker does not know where the raven came from or what will happen to Lenore now that she is dead. In “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. Crane believes in the unknown, is fascinated by it and terrified of it. Also, Crane’s imagination of things like witches, and his idea that he was going to marry Katrina, stopped him from recognizing rivals and made him unable to perceive reality. Ichabod is depressed when he is rejected, which shows his emotion. When he is scared to walk, it shows his emotions are to control him during a simple task. One must wonder how the desire for companionship impacts daily life and society. Why do we depend so heavily on the presence of others to be
This is shown through obsession, superstition, and fear, as was exemplified in the texts “The Raven” by Poe and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Irving, both written during the Romantic era. "The Raven" is Romantic because it has the characteristics of strong emotions, the unknown, and imagination. The man trying to deal with loss of a loved one causes him to feel extreme emotions. His imagination is uncontrollable and the speaker imagines hearing things and imagines that there are angels in the room. The raven is thought of as a devil by the speaker, and the speaker has questions about Lenore after she died, which are the characteristics of the unknown because the speaker does not know where the raven came from or what will happen to Lenore now that she is dead. In “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. Crane believes in the unknown, is fascinated by it and terrified of it. Also, Crane’s imagination of things like witches, and his idea that he was going to marry Katrina, stopped him from recognizing rivals and made him unable to perceive reality. Ichabod is depressed when he is rejected, which shows his emotion. When he is scared to walk, it shows his emotions are to control him during a simple task. One must wonder how the desire for companionship impacts daily life and society. Why do we depend so heavily on the presence of others to be