New Romanticism

To be creative is to make something new, innovative, or original. Creativity can be combinational, (“involves the generation of unfamiliar combinations of familiar ideas”), exploratory (“the existing stylistic rules or conventions are used to generate novel structures (ideas or artifacts), whose possibility may or may not have been realized before the exploration took place. To the extent that it was not, the new structure will be not only satisfying but surprising.”) or transformational…

As rebels of the industrial era, Romantic poets cultivated their reverence for the natural world, and shared the reverence in their poems. In "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer", Whitman narrates his experience of depressed by the astronomer’s lecture and pleased again by looking at the stars himself. In “324” Dickinson tells within nature she can hear from God and go to heaven without the need of going to church. Though they use different poetic devices, they both express the similar…

The poem that I choose was April Midnight by Arthur Symons. At 16, he moved to London and joined a group of authors know as the Rhymers’ Club and join many other famous authors. Symon’s formal poetry explores romantic love, loss, and the passage of time. April Midnight was published in his collection called Silhouettes in 1892. I chose this poem because it is so different from what we hear about nowadays. April Midnight has more of a carefree theme is tries to portray and now of days, people are…

and many other occurrences. There were rebellions, wars, huge changes in society and many more. Therefore, there were especially dramatic changes in art. Artist began to stray away from classical method and instead started to experiment more with new mediums, methods, and subject matter. The Romantic period was described as an intense experience because the work was done to impose a feeling or message on the viewer, by using a high amount of imagination and often rebellion towards classical…

The novel ‘Frankenstein’ is often compared to the poem ‘The Tyger’ because of their similar focuses on life, creation, and existence. ‘Frankenstein’ tells the story of the creation of new life by Victor Frankenstein’s hedonistic act of attempting to play God and the…

Noah Webster was a man of many words. He is most widely known for his dictionary company, The Webster Dictionary, but he wasn’t just the man behind the dictionary. Noah Webster was a man of God. He not only tried to live the life of a Christian but he also spoke much about it. Even, his last words were about God. Throughout his life like any person he endured struggles, illness, and the hardships of Christianity and living for God. But, he was also blessed with profound knowledge. He didn’t want…

Generally speaking, American Romanticism forms a connection between the real world and a realm of fantasy. However, the concept of Romanticism has a flawed connection with the ideas of Realism. However, several stories, such as The Red Badge of Courage, attempt to bridge the gap between the hybrid of reality and fantasy and a world strictly dominated by the cruel and somewhat intriguing realities of life. In this story, the ideas connect in differing ways, with the ultimate results changing…

“Nothing Gold Can Stay” is a poem by Robert Frost. Written during the roaring 20's, it was a part of his Pulitzer Prize-winning publication of poems, New Hampshire. The main overarching idea for the poem is that nothing precious can last. This is demonstrated in the metaphors, the structure and other figurative language found in the poem. There are many metaphors used in the poem that illustrate the overarching idea. In the first line, Frost writes “nature’s first green is gold”. Natures first…

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…