New Romanticism

4 Discussion 4.1 Romantic Nationalism Romanticism developed toward the end of the 18th century and, by the beginning of the 19th century, the phenomenon had become a wide movement that deeply influenced ideas and ideals, playing a significant role in the development of nationalism and the concept of nation-state (Green 1997:737). The ideals of romantic nationalism inspired an interest in antiquity and ancient traditions: among a number of emerging nations arose a need for reconstructing…

part in her life. In her tradition, men were the leaders and dominant parts of relationships and marriages. The moon takes its place as the tradition leader of the relationship between him and the sea in accordance to the gender roles of Puritan New England in the 19th century. In conclusion, Emily Dickinson’s poem, “The Moon is distant from the Sea”, is about the gender roles of a relationship during her lifetime. This is depicted through the extended metaphor of the relationship between…

1. My first thoughts after reading “The Fallen House of Usher” was my curiosity behind the enigmatic translations of certain scenarios in the story and what I assume must be symbology intertwined into Poe’s intended darker meanings or messages behind the meanings real story. There were a number of areas in the story where rational logic couldn’t clearly define a purpose or meaning but remained imperative to the final outcome. Such as why if Roderick and the narrator had been friends for so…

diary or journal. To confess, one tells all or at least what they would like to have heard. A confessional poet writes for a wide variety of audience. Almost anyone can be the audience of a confessional poem. Poets like Allen Ginsberg were against the new critical mode of writing poetry that emphasized on remoteness and lack of personality. These confessional poets gave expression to painful personal events through the exposure of personal intimacies and brazen self- exposure. In this sense by…

the hardships that everyday people would face, as well as current imperfections and issues that affected the new America in which they lived. Literature of this time was dominated by New England writer, Walt Whitman and later on, female poet, Emily Dickinson. The emphases on literature that these American Renaissance writers had was both historical and cultural, having a great impact on the new America. “He is American, his crudity is an exceeding great stench, but it is America” (Ezra Pound).…

Cuckoo’s Nest and also in Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing series (particularly Fear and Loathing mainstay and Thompson persona, Raoul Duke). Ken Kesey was the earliest of those mentioned to have begun the pursuit of the American Dream through new avenues. Kesey connected those involved in the Beat movement and the hippie movement on both sides of the country.…

Have You ever wondered the difference between Tell Tale Heart and The Landlady.Well I found out some information about the difference about the two stories were that they have different writers. One of them likes to make the story creepy at the beginning and the other hides the horror till the end of the story.The stories both have suspense, darkness, horror, and mysteriousness in the stories.Obviously the writers have different writing styles and have a different way of appealing the evil in…

In “A Dream,” poet Edgar Allen Poe employs a variety of literary devices such as reinforcement in what happens to him in the past and his experiences through his dreams, and his wishes to explore what has faded from his past. The poet begins by addressing of how he wishes to be actually in his past, but the truth is that it hurts him to woken up from this past and the love that faded from reality into memory. He is dreaming of joy that has now left him, and that joy is no longer real to…

So far, I personally consider the fine art photographs as those with great compositions, the mixture of light and color, the magical quality, as well as the meaningful contemplation, and I would like to appreciatively describe one fine art photograph—Winter, Fifth Avenue given by Alfred Stieglitz. Accompanied by pure photography style, Stieglitz was instrumental in helping make photography the fine art, and this eye-catching image, Winter, Fifth Avenue, is one of his best known works captured in…

Style Goya was a Romantic painter; these unique artists aimed to break free from traditional rules and selected their own subjects. Romantic painters were independent of the social order and distinguished themselves from European culture as Goya did. These artists including Goya set out to grasp the moment of tragedy and combat. Goya excelled in the late Baroque and Rococo styles in his youth, but never entirely incorporated the influence of Neo-Classicism, (attributed from the influence of…