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THE ROMANTIC AGE NEW SENSIBILITY - Coggle Diagram
THE ROMANTIC AGE
NEW SENSIBILITY
a new concept of nature
living being (
pantheistic
view)
source of inspiration
Edmund Burke
sublime
over beauty (reverence + admiration)
beauty and terror = mesmerised. astonishment (serpents)
admiration, reverence and respect
MAN AND NATURE
German Idealism
from the inorganic to the organic state
connection of the soul with the divine and supernatural
primite and wild landscapes
Coleridge
, Byron and P.Shelley
nature as
indifferent to man's destiny
Giacomo Leopardi
escape from routine, limitations and reality
consoling view
Wordsworth
POETRY
subjective poetry
personal experience of life
recreate the bond with nature
early romantic
graveyard poetry
(Thomas Gray and Edward Young)
symbol of immortality
Blake
a pre-romantic
romantic
imagination, re-create and modify the exterbnal world
the figure of the child
exotic places
expanding the cconsciousness
Byron and Rousseau's theories
THE NAME
unreal (chivalry romance)
negative meaning for the Enlightenment
two generations of poets
1
Wordsworth
: nature and ordinary interesting
Coleridge
: supernatural
2
political disillusionment, ideal and real
Percy shelley
's Prometheus
Keats
: escape in classical beauty
Byron
: rebellious and cynical