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ROMANTICISM - Coggle Diagram
ROMANTICISM
WHAT CHARACTERISES
ROMANTIC LITERATURE?
Emotions:
had a great importance in romantic poetry
The purity of childhood:
it was a belief that developed during this period
The glorification of the past and critique of progress:
the middle age was a important theme: it revived medieval elements of art and literature
Absolute truth:
the romanticism moved away from the objective truths (science), to a subjective truth of art,
until discover
truth in nature
The reification of nature:
the materialistic and mechanism of society had caused man to blind to the nature
TRANSCENDENTALISM
AND ROMANTICISM
Was a philosophical movement developed in 1820s and 1830s jn America
People are their best when truly self-reliantand indipendent
The society and its institutions corrupted the purity of individual
WHAT LED ROMANTICISM?
This moviment began around the time of the French revolution (1789) and finished around 1850
It was a reaction against
The Industrial revolution:
The Romantics had to take with nature against industry
The Enlightenment:
The Romantics disagreed the values of progress and rationality, and progress of urbanisation
AUCTORS
Henry David Throreau:
wrote the book "Life in the Woods"
Transcendentalism
Consumerism
Materialism
Doyle ArthurConan:
modelled a character called Byronic Hero
who was a mysterious brooding anti-hero
Dark
Troubled past
Arrogant
Disrepectful
Moody
Mysterious