ROMANTICISM
Romanticism developed in Germany and spread in Europe with different features: and particulary in teh 18 th century in Europe spread a NEW SENSIBILITY related to emotions, and a new generation of poets, but they didn't established precise rules to express emotions
themes:
NATURE: a new concept of nature: a phanteistic view of it (natural as living being) opposed to the rational conception of the nature as a whole of law
SUBLIME: a particular way of perceiving and interpretaing nature; the sublime consists in feeling actract, astonished in what of natura suggest scare and terror (THE GOTHIC)
autobiographical material: personal experiences and the emotions related to them
interest in childhood and in the figure of the CHILDREN
emotions
themes and poetic reflections:
interest in the significance of the individual
immagination
ROMANTIC POETRY:
poetry was the literary genre that best suited the need to express personal experiences and emotions and feeling related
IMMAGINATION had an important role in the prpocess of poetic composition; it permits poets to see beyond reality and allowed to recreate reality (programmatic text: "A certain coluring of immagination" )
the figure of the poet:
the poet was a visonary
the poet was seen as a teacher who teaches normal people to find out the beauty in nature
childwhood was a state to be admired and cultivated
man in a solitary state was exalted as far from the civilization: the civilized man was linked to curruption; instead the savage man was linked to a pure and genuine feelings
the child was the creature closer to God and far from civilization and corruption; so he was closer to the source of creation
THE ROMANTIC WRITES WITH THE ENDURING POWER OF THEIR WRITINGS CRITICIZED THE EFFECTS ON THE SOCIETY OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, THAT ESTABLISH THAT THE MAIN FORCES OF THE EXISTENCE WERE PROFIT MAKING
nature was consider the expression of God in the universe
nature was the way to escape the limits of commercialization and industrialization that men have to face
nature becames the main source of inspiration in poetry, and a source of joy and positive emotions, and the place where the deepiest and puriest emotions grow
the poet wander in a state of loliness and disconneted from reality
authors:
poetry takes origin from semplicity; the poet is a so sensitive person who is incredible able to be moved by any aspect of the nature and find out beauty anyway
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (the descriptions of London, Daffoldis)
MARY SHELLY (the creation of the monster: Frankenstain)
WILLIAM BLAKE (London, the two version of The Chiminy Sweepers)
JHON KEATS (ode on a grecian urn)
the second generation of romantic poet