Justus von Liebig

Romanticism Art Era (1780–1850): An era that resulted as a byproduct of the French and American Revolution, Romanticism was an artistic period that spanned the 17th century through the late 18th century. Art related trends, during this period, centered around liberty and intellectual freedom. During this era, the conventional and objective regard to art was replaced with a more subjective and meaningful approach. Dramatic expression of emotion took center stage during this period, and an…

During the romantic era, There were poets like William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley, who used their lives as inspiration.William Wordsworth is considered the father of modern romantic literature. While Shelley paid a tribute to William Wordsworth, however it was more of a look where you are now. Both poets used themes, symbols, and characterization to get their thoughts across. “To Wordsworth” was written by Shelly and “I wandered lonely as a cloud” by Wordsworth. To begin, there are…

related to the nature of the speaker and the content of the poems. William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the Romantic poets, whose poetry and artwork became part of Romanticism in late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century in European Culture. William Blake wrote in the time when the world was seeing a sudden change in many phases with the industrial revolution especially in Europe. Blake’s collections of poems in the Songs of Innocence and Experience exemplify the world around him in two…

For the purpose of this essay I am going to discuss the Novella ‘Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorf’ by Gottfried Keller. “Romeo and Juliet in the village" is similar to Shakespeare's play. The plot was, however, transferred to the rural milieu of the 19th century. In the novella, there are children of peasant families, Sali and Vrenchen, who fall in love with each other. The fathers of the children are enemies because of a dispute over Land. Because of this bitter enmity and feud they lose…

Romanticism was a movement in the 1770s that focused on the primacy of the individual, inspiration, subjectivity, and the belief in the supernatural. Transcendentalism began in the late 1820s and was influenced by other movements such as Romanticism. Romanticism and Transcendentalism can be seen throughout the poems Thanatopsis, written by William Cullen Bryant, and Song of Myself, written by Walt Whitman, respectively. The tenets of Romanticism can be seen be analyzing Thanatopsis,…

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe). Ignorance encompasses humans of today's society. Whether coming in the form of racism or simply not having a clue as to what events are taking place around the world, many seem to not care. Technology, although imperative in our society, generates a great deal of the ignorance in our society. Imagine if humans gained the ability to obtain this technology with just a chip in the brain. A portrait of this…

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey written by Williams Wordsworth is a very well known poem. Being a Generation one poet Wordsworth is also compared with Robert Burns and William Blake, all of whom were extremely acknowledge as brilliant men in their writings. Just as Robert Burns does in his poetry William Wordsworth's takes simple ideas and moves to more complex ideas. In the introduction to Tintern Abbey Wordsworth is traveling to an old medieval church that he had visited five…

Hans Urs von Balthasar was a Swiss theologian born in Lucerne to a well-established family. Von Balthasar joined the Society of Jesus in 1929 upon the completion of his dissertation. At the leading of Henri de Lubac, von Balthasar studied Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, and Maximus the Confessor where he discovered a hope for the salvation of the world. During his time as a chaplain in Basle, von Balthasar met the protestant theologian Karl Barth, who would go on to become close friend and major…

with some of you that I am sure will last a lifetime. “If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be”. ~Johann Wolfgang Von…

In the late eighteenth century, a breakthrough in literature came about, romanticism. Romanticism freed the author to write however they pleased, whether it be with emotion, passion, etc. Readers all over craved it; it excited their imaginations and toyed with their emotions like no other work could do. In a sense, romanticism was an escape from reality for these everyday folk. Not all were in love with the romanticism works, though. Some people, such as realists, opposed the idea of romanticism…