John Taylor Gatto

Romantics believed that intuition and feeling was more important than reason. This belief was a staunch opposition to the current view of the era, that being that reason was life's center. Longfellow's poem, "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls", is a moving example of Romantic thoughts and beliefs. Within it, there are many examples of how Romantics felt we should find truth in nature. To begin, Longfellow uses a repetitive structure in his poem to convey this overall thought that we should…

“Frost at Midnight!". Would make any human mind wonder. On a cold night, and everyone is sound asleep. I personally myself would enjoy that peaceful moment and let my head go into deep thoughts. I would have a nice cup of cappuccino. I would think about love, how far I have come as well as my past, my childhood, family and so much more. Coleridge couldn’t have chosen a better setting and title for this poem, because I believe that nature is best discovered and embraced at night. A person can get…

from the eleventh book of Paradise Lost. We were much impressed, and also melted into tears” (Hertz 122). Words from the journal of one Williams Wordsworth’s closest friend, his sister Dorothy; this detail could explain Wordsworth’s admiration of John Milton and why in a time of frustration he would appeal to the spirit of Milton to “return to us again”. In his sonnet London, 1802 Wordsworth calls to his poetic forefather Milton and in his characteristically eloquent manner advocates his…

John Keats is said to be seen as one of the most “canniest readers, interpreters, and questioners of the “modern” project in poetry, which sought to dwell in the desires and sufferings of the human heart.” His works such as Ode to Melancholy is a worthy example as to how Keats illustrates the relatable feeling of pain, and shines light on the common idea that it is to be hidden and masked with false happiness. In this work he tells us to embrace it, to take it by the hand and let it flow through…

What is romanticism? Romanticism was the largest artistic movement, it appeared after the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars at the late 1700s. The influence of the romantic era was felt through every artistic discipline in the nineteenth century; Romanticism was seen as a shift from the faith in reason to the faith in senses and feelings, it diverted the artistic interests from the urban society to the nature and the rural community. Romanticism shares many features as first, love of…

ANALYSES OF THE LOVELIEST TREES AND TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG BY HOUSMAN Alfred Edward Housman was an English poet and one of the greatest classical scholars of all time. In this essay, I will analyse two poems “The Loveliest Trees” and “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman from modern era in England. These poems call as modern poems. First of all, I want to mention about modernism, characteristics of modernism and characteristics of modern English poetry. Modernism is a literary movement…

“The poetry of The Tower period is rich because of the fullness of Yeats's life, because his style was reaching maturity at the same time as his life.”(p.193) This is how A. Norman Jeffares describes the poetry of The Tower in his book W.B. Yeats, Man and Poet. William Butler Yeats, an Anglo-Irish poet wrote the poems from The Tower between 1912 and 1927 and the collection was published in 1928. Most of these poems have a common theme: violence. Indeed, they were written during a difficult and…

Romanticism was an art movement that originated from the 18th century, starting in the 1750s and lasting until the 1890s. The style was a rejection of classical art and a reaction against neoclassicism, and the main focus of this artistic movement was to convey an emotion through their paintings and literature. They believed in staying true to their emotions and putting it down on paper. It emphasized the individuality of the artist. The artwork from this period of time was full of emotion and…

Contribution of the following eras and philosophers Romanticism Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712_1778) Romanticism stresses subjective experience and the uniqueness of each individual. Rousseau has been called the father of the Romantic Movement because of his "enthusiasm for nature and his appeal to the emotions Contribution: • Jean Jacques wrote a few articles for encyclopedia and also some music and poetry. Rousseau published four important books named as New Heloise (1760), Emile (1762), Social…

Orientalists which led to the complaint filed in The Friend. Mazumdar specifies, besides Coleridge’s own reading of the Bhagavata Purana, the influence of Volume One of Thomas Maurice’s History of Hindostan: Its Arts, and its Sciences first published in 1795, John Zephaniah Holwell’s Interesting Historical Events relative to the Provinces of Bengal and the Empire of Indostan, published in 1767, and Edward Moor’s Hindu Pantheon, published in…