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The Romanticism: the age of feelings - Coggle Diagram
The Romanticism: the age of feelings
:question: HOW IT DEVELOPED...?
in
ITALY:
the "Lettera semiseria di Grisostomo al suo figliolo" by Giovanni Berchet marked the beginning of the Romantic moviment.
in
GERMANY
: the romantic moviment begin with the Sturm und Drung. Then the romantic ideas of the brothers Friedrich and Schlegel appaered on the periodical Athenaum in 1798..
in
FRANCE:
" De l'Allemagne" by Madame De Stael spread the romantic principles for the first time. The Romanticism begin in France and gradually developed in all country.
:lock:the influence of three importants revolutions: the lyfestyle changed and
the humble man was put in first place by the poet.
Agrarian revolution
French revolution
Industrial revolution
:<3: THE NEW CONCEPT OF NATURE: nature became a real and living being and the main source of joy and pleasure.
:!:The origin of the term "romantic" : the world romantic comes from the french term "romance". In England appeared in the second half of the 17 century to describe unreal and extravagant. Gradually the term was used to describe the feelings the landscape created in the observator.
:star: Two generations of romantic poets:
FIRST GENERATION
:they used simple language and put the humble man in first place.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
he make a difference between:
SECONDARY IMAGINATION
FANCY
PRIMARY IMAGINATION
nature is not a moral guide ,but is an essential role in poetic creativity
the poet is able to idealise in order to recreate
William Wordsworth
:
poerty is "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"
nature is the main source of joy and pleasure and he has a pantheistic view of life.
the poet is not superior to men, but he has more sensibility. He is a teacher , aguide.
SECOND GENERATION
:they early clashed with their society and used more elevated language:
Percy Bysshe Shelley
for him poetry is something divine.
the poet is a prophet and a titan challenging the cosmos.
nature is a shelter which save humankind from the unjustice of ordinary world (Ode to the West Wind).
John Keats
poetry ,for Keats, is the only reason for life . He is not interested in political and social problems.
Keats had a cult of nature and it is a form of beauty .The contemplation of Beauty is the central theme of Keat's poetry (beauty is truth,truth beauty-Ode on a grecian urn)
Beauty and Truth are the only two type of knowledge.
the poet has a "negative capability"
George Gordon Byron
Byron's individualism is very strong.
nature is his companion in his loneliness and isolation. We can remember Childe Harold's Pilgrimage where is clearly express the concept of
Exoticism.
he is not a moral guide.
:warning:..AND ENGLAND?: there are two hypothesis
it started with the symbolism of Blake,regarded as the precursor of this moviment in England.
it started with the publication of Lyrical Ballads,by Wordsworth and Coleridge. The second edition of 1800 contained the 'Manifesto of english romantic poetry'.
:check: the concept of sublime: terror and pain are the strongest emotions and there is pleasure in such feelings.
:fire: Features of Romanticism:
the figure of child
: to a Romantic , a child was purer than adult because he was unspoilt by civilisation.
the cult of exotic
:as a basic idea there was the rejection of the reality in which one lives and man finds shelter in an ideal place.
strong sobjectivism
:the noble savage is a concept specifically romantic.The "natural" behaviour is good to contrast reason and rules imposed by the society.
:black_flag: THE IMPORTANCE OF IMAGINATION: in this period imagination gained a primary role in the process of poetic creation.