Dark romanticism

Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace Ada Byron, born Augustus Ada Byron in London, England in 1815. Her parents were Anne Isabella Milbanke and the famous Lord Byron. Ada father left Britain leaving her mother and her alone when Ada was just one month old. Ada never saw her father again and she never got to know him. Fearing that Ada would become like her father whose personality was a bit unstable; Anne saw that Ada received the best education using her aristocratic advantages to see that she…

Romanticism From the late 18th to the mid-19th century, Western civilisation entered an artistic period known as Romanticism. It’s ideas influenced many works of painting, music, architecture and literature. Romanticism can be seen as a rejection of Classicism and the ideas of order, harmony, and rationality that characterised it. It focused on the personal, the emotional, and the irrational ("Romanticism | Encyclopædia Britannica”). Creators from the period showed great interest in folk…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem “The Tide Rises, the tide falls” showcases the Romanticism ideal of finding truth in nature in several ways, but mainly through its emphasis on nature. Romanticism is a type of literature that emphasizes inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of an individual. Romantics mainly valued feeling, imagination, nature over reason, logic, and civilization. They liked to explore exotic settings, especially locations far from civilization and industry. They tried to…

Throughout literature, seasons, often presenting abstract thematic information and conveying extended metaphors through repetitive attention to seasons, parallel an underlying notion of progress or cycles within the narrative. Mary Shelley, in Frankenstein, likewise employs seasonal and nature-related rhetorical devices, extending such symbols and settings to directly reflect inner developments within prominent characters; through the naturally abstract and indirect, she develops a standing on…

This is depicted to the viewer by how dark and dreary the left side of the picture is. Although we can see that, the text states that we are the main cause of this problem. We are ruining forests for our personal needs such as fuel and tillage but mostly for roads and canals. If the result…

American romanticism focuses on the supernatural, literature, philosophy, art, religion, politics, and nature. American romanticism was created after the Age of Reason between 1800-1865. In the movie, “Sleepy Hollow”, there was a lot of of American romanticism in the movie. For instance, romanticism in the movie are pertaining to a supernatural spirit, nature, and self-intuition. Ichabod Crane was a hero in more than one time in the movie because he used his self-intuition. Tim Burton…

Both as a theme and genre within literature, romance is an undying force, enduring the test of time. Captivating countless generations, writers who remain relevant novelists often focus on a melodramatic and idealistic story of adolescents falling in love, consequently depicting young love inaccurately. Guided by selfish desire, adolescent love is fervent and destructive, unlike mature love which is willing to change and compromise. Novelists scarcely craft successful stories on the darker…

Analysis: “Beauty” James Hearst wrote the poem “Beauty” along with many others. He grew up on a farm in Iowa. At nineteen years old, he was celebrating his leave from the military when he dove into the Cedar River. Hearst’s life changed that day; he became paraplegic after the incident. For a while after the accident, he could still work on the farm, but his condition later worsened. Hearst used poetry to cope with his disability. His hate for his disability was communicated through his…

Idealistic Romantic Worship Turned Sour The idea and definition of constructed and legitimate love and romance has been formulated over centuries all over the world. The general norm within America is that it is something everyone will recieve, the way to success, a necessity etc. Our society is so littered and permeated with stories revolving around love that it is often completely overlooked as a theme until the ideas of love depicted are straying away from the accepted idea. Our fascination…

William Wordsworth was a man that was true to nature, with the revolving changes in the new world he still came back to what was true. In most of Wordsworth poems, nature is the main and predominant theme throughout. Nature seems to have the most general effect on the mind of us humans, and of the mind of Wordsworth himself. Every little thing that makes up nature from the regular trees to the mountains and even to the small lady bugs, all lead us to some form of enthusiasm for these things. "In…