The Romantic era (1780s - 1830s) was a movement of rebellion against the artificiality that was synonymous with Neoclassicism and industrialisation. Through idealistic tendencies, the Romantics sought a transcendent existence in response to the inauthentic state of their human experience. Through the glorification of nature, the exemplification of the power of imagination and freedom of emotional expression, composers profoundly engage with elements of the authentic human experience. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s conversation poem, ‘This Lime Tree Bower My Prison’ (1797), his ballad, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ (1798), Mary Shelley’s frame, Frankenstein (1818), Caspar David Friedrich’s oil painting ‘Chalk Cliffs on Rugen’ (1818), and Percy
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The light imagery with the cyclical use of the “lime-tree” in, “This little lime-tree bower, have I not mark’d… Pale beneath the blaze hung the transparent foliages” accentuates the emotional epiphany the persona has undergone as a response to his imaginative journey. The highly emotive and rhythmic tone and, as a convention of the blank verse form, depicts the wild yet pure imagination as a challenge to the order of Enlightenment. He has transcended his circumstances, as the Romantics transcended the societal constructs. Similarly to Coleridge’s depiction of imagination allowing the freedom from the constraints of society, Friedrich’s ‘Chalk Cliffs on Rugen’ conveys the value of imagination for finding personal freedom. The inquisitive figure in the lower right third wearing green, symbolic of hope, gazing into the endless abyss of ocean, highlights the power of the imagination in removing boundaries and creating hope for individuals as to confront the emotional control of the Enlightenment. Therefore, to be a truly idealistic society, there must be no suppression of individuality and and thus no limitation on …show more content…
Within, “an additional class of emotions produces an augmented treasure of expressions,” metaphorical representation of the end results of being more expressive, emphasis the necessity of emotional expression for creating an idealistic society, in contrast with the oppressive Neoclassical one. Similarly to Frankenstein conveying how emotion is necessary for guiding morality, Bysshe Shelley depicts the necessity of intense emotions for shaping individuals for the better, as to revolt against contemporary focus on the collective. “sacred emotions can render men more amiable, more generous and wise, and lift them out of the dull vapors of the little world of self.” the religious “sacred” coupled with the metaphorical portrayal of the self conveys the value of being free to express one’s emotions in transcending the impersonal human experience brought on by industrialisation and replacing it with an idealised one. Similarly to Bysshe Shelley conveying how even negative emotions can result in an idealistic human experience, the imaginative journey resulting from the negativity within ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’ results in a myriad of realisations for the persona. Within,“Tis well to be bereft of promis’d good, that we may life the soul, and contemplate with the lively joy of joys,” the synecdoche of soul with the
The light imagery with the cyclical use of the “lime-tree” in, “This little lime-tree bower, have I not mark’d… Pale beneath the blaze hung the transparent foliages” accentuates the emotional epiphany the persona has undergone as a response to his imaginative journey. The highly emotive and rhythmic tone and, as a convention of the blank verse form, depicts the wild yet pure imagination as a challenge to the order of Enlightenment. He has transcended his circumstances, as the Romantics transcended the societal constructs. Similarly to Coleridge’s depiction of imagination allowing the freedom from the constraints of society, Friedrich’s ‘Chalk Cliffs on Rugen’ conveys the value of imagination for finding personal freedom. The inquisitive figure in the lower right third wearing green, symbolic of hope, gazing into the endless abyss of ocean, highlights the power of the imagination in removing boundaries and creating hope for individuals as to confront the emotional control of the Enlightenment. Therefore, to be a truly idealistic society, there must be no suppression of individuality and and thus no limitation on …show more content…
Within, “an additional class of emotions produces an augmented treasure of expressions,” metaphorical representation of the end results of being more expressive, emphasis the necessity of emotional expression for creating an idealistic society, in contrast with the oppressive Neoclassical one. Similarly to Frankenstein conveying how emotion is necessary for guiding morality, Bysshe Shelley depicts the necessity of intense emotions for shaping individuals for the better, as to revolt against contemporary focus on the collective. “sacred emotions can render men more amiable, more generous and wise, and lift them out of the dull vapors of the little world of self.” the religious “sacred” coupled with the metaphorical portrayal of the self conveys the value of being free to express one’s emotions in transcending the impersonal human experience brought on by industrialisation and replacing it with an idealised one. Similarly to Bysshe Shelley conveying how even negative emotions can result in an idealistic human experience, the imaginative journey resulting from the negativity within ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’ results in a myriad of realisations for the persona. Within,“Tis well to be bereft of promis’d good, that we may life the soul, and contemplate with the lively joy of joys,” the synecdoche of soul with the