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THE ROMANTICISM - Coggle Diagram
THE ROMANTICISM
SUBJECTIVE POETRY
lyrical and personal experience of life (humble, life, everyday life, melancholy, suffering of poors)
individual experience: noisy industries, serenity of the countruside, revival of the past (Middle Age)
GOTHIC NOVEL
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individual consciousness and mystery (escape of the ugly world, disillusionment with Enlightment and bloody Revolutions)
ancient settings, gloomy and oppressive atmosphere (hero usually isolated, heroine persecuted by unreal terrors)
isolation of the characters (outcasts, wanderers)
complicated plots (embedded narratives, supernatural beings)
THEMES
nature: real and living force, expression of God (pantheistic view), stimulus of thought, source of comfort and joy
the sublime (by Edmund Burke): it excites the ideas of pain and danger (terror), but provokes pleasure
child: purer than adults (stage necessary for adulthood), unspoilt by civilisation, uncorrupted sensitiveness, closer to God
poet: prohet who mediate between man and nature, points out the evils of society, evaluate freedom, truth and beauty, capable of imagination (see beyond the surface)
exotic: far away in space and time, picturesque, unfamiliar in custom and society
individual: solitary state, unique qualities, exaltation of the atypical outcast, (conventions are restriction on personality and corruption), exaltation of the noble savage (instinctive knowledge of himself)
TWO GENERATIONS OF POET
first generation: theorise about poetry (Wordsworth, Coleridge)
second generation: political disillusionment, alienation of the artist from society (revolutionary spirit, anti-conformist, rebellious), died very young far from home (Byron, Shelley, Keats)
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ROMANTIC
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refers to fabolous unreal, spontaneous poetry
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