Essays on Romanticism

For centuries war has been romanticized as a heroic battle between a purely good side and the evil side. Incredible heroes fight against evil and give peace back to the good. The good and innocent all live peacefully afterwards while the evil are punished and…

Edgar Allan Poe, a writer of the Dark Romanticism era, is known for his morbid and melancholy tales that reflect the popular beliefs of his time. He illustrates in his writings the dark side of humanity as well as man’s weaknesses in the face of…

The film version is also narrated by Kathy. However, the yoke of a film narrative is much dimmer than that of a first person in a book. The Kathy of the book imposes her point of view, her vocabulary and her narrative sway. In the…

I have read the following three novels: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. These books appealed to me as they represent a realistic image of love and romance in showing that life is…

Close your eyes and try to picture what a “Romantics” poem looks and sounds like. What comes to mind? Do you picture a poem that is all about love and the yearning of being together? The most common characteristics of Romanticism consist of an importance…

Introduction Majority of the representatives of English Romantic Poetry were well-known for their love for nature. The romanticists focused their poetic interest on the pure nature, particularly on its clear and often wild locality. Contrary to the classicists which understood nature as a space in…

The poetic exposure of A.K.Choudhary is essentially and undoubtedly romantic. Romanticism runs wonderfully across his verses. The more we read the more we get intoxicated with the effect of the essence of romantic wine. Romantic ingredients lie scattered through all his poems especially those which…

“Romanticism was a reaction against an emotionless rationality and structured literature that defined the Age of Enlightenment and Reason. Faust personifies his dichotomy on his way to becoming the Romantic hero” (Hardison, Expert Answers, Enotes, Print). Goethe’s Faust, was not entirely considered romantic writing, but…

Due to its multi-faceted nature, the Romantic period revealed philosophical tensions, such as the conflicting conceptualizations of the role of the imagination and nature in facilitating greater individual understanding. Coleridge’s 1816 poem ‘Kubla Khan’ and Keats’s 1819 poem ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ demonstrates the conflict…

Many famous works by Edgar Allen Poe contain elements of Romanticism. These elements can be anything from nature to the supernatural. Virtually any story from the Romantic period will have a few of these romantic elements. Edgar Allen Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado showcases many…