Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Changes in society, beginning in the 18th century to the mid 19th century and continuing into our own time, underlie the romantic movement.Romantics abondoned many dominant attitudes and prinicples of previous age.Romanticism was a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality, physicl materialism and Classicism of 18th century.Romanticism focused on personal emotions, the individual, the subjective, irrational, the imaginative.Their deep love,…

The art works, “The Haywain” by John Constable and “The Scream” by Edvard Munch, are two different types of painting that represent the two movements of art work which is Romanticism and Expressionism through their style of art paintings. The well known and well represented the style of art work of romanticism, which is “The haywain” painted in 1821, Constable was the English painter during 18th century. He was a mainly outdoor of landscapes painter that he painted the nature scenery as he saw…

Question: Which Characters of The Canterbury Tales are the reflections of our contemporary society and why? Answer: INTRODUCTION: “The Canterbury Tales”, renowned and legendary poem of medieval age, is the collection of stories written in Heroic Couplet in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English Poetry and the greatest writer of 14th Century, got distinction among the medieval poets due to realism and the unique art of characterization which varies from character to…

In a time period heavily guided by the contrast of thought and reason to emotion and feeling, Phillis Wheatley, author of Thoughts on the Works of Providence that was published in the late eighteenth century, employs a genre of sentimentality that would be model for writers to come. From the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, the Enlightenment Period guided life, specifically written works, with reason and sensibility in Europe. However, the mid-eighteenth century was a…

Born at the end of the 19th Century in France and spread over Europe during the 20th century, Symbolism opposed completely to Impressionism. While Impressionism focused on the reality of daily life, Symbolism suggested ideas through symbols, complemented by colours and shapes. Symbolism reacted against the materialism and soulless urbanization of the Victorian Era. With symbolism, spirituality, imagination, fantasy, dreams and visions were given form. In painting, the symbolism could be…

“Patterns” is a poem composed during the rise of the Imagist movement in modern poetry, Amy Lowell was greatly sympathetic . She eventually became one of its major advocates and leaders. Imagists attempted to break with the traditional forms of poetry, preferring unrhymed and free verses which are more colloquial, economical diction which was closer to the rhythms of speech. In “Patterns,” her best-known poem, Lowell used an irregular rhyme scheme to suggest that expression must follow the…

Wordsworthian Romanticism, which shattered the neoclassical dogmas and conventions, pervaded the fragrance of ‘Nature’ in the literary world. With the publication of Lyrical Ballads and its preface, Wordsworth propounded the Romantic theory of poetry and proved that poetry entangled with the feelings and emotions of human mind. The Neoclassical strictness which appealed to the human reason was replaced by the fluidity and tenderness of human mind, elated with the sense of freedom. The masses or…

The key ideas of British romanticism and how Frost’s poetry is similar or different from that. The romantic age of England ranged between 1780 and 1830. The Age of Romanticism or the very ideology of romanticism was a reaction against the Age of Enlightenment emphasizing upon the significance of reason and logical faculty of human mind. Romanticism primarily emotion and imagination which play an instrumental role in creation of art and poetry. Romantic poetries were essentially subjective as…

Gothic romance in literature combine elements of horror, death, and gloom, but also incorporate components of love, nature, and individuality; these aspects all play an important role in turning a fictional work of literature into a gothic romance. Nature specifically plays a significant role in gothic romance because it temporarily takes death or horror away from the story and greatly changes a character’s mood or emotion. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, nature significantly changes both Victor…

Sunshine, weeds, a brook, and leaves all belong to nature, yet one does not fit in with the others. In most Romantic works, nature radiates a positive vibe. Characters immerse themselves in nature as an escape from the expectations of the towns people and to have a place with freedom. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathanial Hawthorne uses positivity with the forest where Hester and Dimmesdale can interact without the people of the town watching them. However, Hawthorne also explores negativity…