Romantic music

Through their works, composers often convey both their personal and cultural values, as they reveal the impact it has on the relationship between people and landscapes, which are explored through the diverse attitudes and behaviours of individuals. This notion is explored through Judith Wright’s poetry, South of my Days and For New England, which demonstrates how enduring cultural values have influenced and shaped an individual’s identity. Similarly, the 2010 documentary by Kevin McCloud,…

“That’s the night the rains stopped. The night spring came to Mistlethwaite. My poor uncle fled from it – as if he were escaping this spring.” that was a quote from the book Secret Garden. In this film, a young girl named Mary moves to her uncle's house in England, after her parents die in an earth quake. At her new home, she uncovers many unknown secrets of her family. The theme in Frances Hodgson’s Secret Garden is, in order to receive love, you must open your heart. The theme applies to…

Decades ago, the esteemed chief of the Ponca tribe, Standing Bear, argued that “Man’s heart away from nature grows hard.” Even years prior to our modern environmental movement, mankind has always had a profound respect and admiration for nature. Our natural world has been celebrated in song, literature, art, poetry, and just about every other form of media one can think of. Naturalists, like William Wordsworth and John Muir, praise nature through written works, showing the emotional effect of…

view the title of the book has a romantic view. The Title of the book has the same title as a romantic poem that talks about pioneers. “O I mourn and yet exult, I am rapt with love for all” (Whitman). The book romanticizes about the life in the frontier and the book makes romanticizes the life of pioneers. “All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams” (Whitman). In conclusion, despite Cather’s Naturalistic novel O’ Pioneers! the title has a romantic view to it. However, the…

Henry Purcell once said “As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry."(Helm, n.d.). Purcell was the most authentic and admirable composer of his time (Arton, n.d.). He took full advantage of the musical change after the renewal of the monarch. While only living a short life, Purcell left an impact on the music world that still holds true to this day. Henry Purcell, the son of Henry Purcell…

Walt Whitman was a poet who lived throughout most of the nineteenth century and drew a wide following by disregarding “classic” conventions and using imagery that angered many. Whitman promoted himself greatly by writing anonymous reviews of his own work and sending his work to other prominent poets and writers for reviews and support. He worked in many areas of the newspaper business before becoming a nurse during the Civil War. He believed in transcendentalism. The theory that everything and…

William Wordsworth uses romanticism style of writing to express his sorrow between nature and inhumane society. William Wordsworth’s main primary type of poem is a “Romanticism” (European Graduate School EGS). In William Wordsworth’s short poem “The world is too much with us” (Wordsworth) simply describes the title itself and may be a reasonably straightforward poem. However, do not already presume that there is a lack of a strong meaning and a strong understanding of this straightforward poem.…

sublimity, two major values of the Romantic poet. Reading Frankenstein as a criticism of the Romantic poets who surrounded Mary Shelley, Frankenstein is a failed Romantic who takes Shelley’s contemporaries’ ideals too far. Shelley highlights the hypocrisy of this failed Romantic through Frankenstein’s uncharacteristic and ironic rhetoric and through his contradictory ideals attached to a changing landscape. While Frankenstein’s speech values the heroic ambitions of the Romantic poets, he uses…

Explication of “The Tyger” by William Blake Published with other poems in Songs of Experience collection in 1794, “The Tyger” is one of the most famous if not the most widely read poems by William Blake. Including “The Tyger,” the poet wrote most of his poems using his radical tone. In most of his works, he often railed against oppressive institutions such as the monarchy or the church as well as the other cultural traditions like classist, racist or sexist, which stifled passion or imagination…

The speaker expresses faith in the poet’s ability to reconstruct a world free of the fall, an edenic, mythic world that flourished “before the serpent perverted language when persuading Eve and before the destruction of Bable scattered language into a multiplicity of tongues, mutually foreign” (Edwards 137). The image of the swift in this poem provides a symbol of unity of being which reminds us of the initial unity we have lost, a unity which could possibly be regained through art. Jennings…