Romanticism (Final adition)

Romanticism

The world has known many different ways or expressing felling, motions or historical issues, from the very beging, cavemen by their cave paintings, until today with many people express themselves by Pop-Art or taking works from the past. One of these movements is romantics. It covered different ways of art: philosophy, visual arts, music and literature.

Romantics could be seen as a result of the changes that were presented in the XVIII century, including French revolution and its new ideas. On the other hand, romanticism has their roots in two very different countries. Germany and Britain, then it were spread for the rest of Europe, and in a short time this movement arrives in United States.

There are many important artists who were role models. In this movement it possible to find some of the best musicians of the history: Ludwig Van Beethoven and his symphonies; Frederic Chopin and his concertos and Richard Wagner and Operas. Visual arts had a lot of changes, based in their exponent. In England was Joseph Mallord William Turner (Ivy Bridge,1813), France was represented by Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (Liberty Leading the People, 1830) and Spain had a Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Los fusilamientos de la montaña del Príncipe Pío, 1814) as a role model. Finally in literature we can find a lot of great writers of poems and novels.

When we look for he elements of this way of expression are, we can find a huge topic which derive in two topics. The first one is the relation between humankind and nature and this idea moves on the Greatness of nature, including extraordinary features, on the other hand, romanticism describe how human feel, how they express their felling.

This painting is a good way to understand what romanticism is. The Beauty and immensity of nature and the relation with humankind, this relationship is present in the following picture called Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich

Finally, when romanticism is discribed, it is impossible to forget poetry. Romanticism had presented two main role model, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lord Byron. They intruduced a new writen style as Poe did in United Stated. These poets discribe the humans’ felling , focused in bad humans’ emotion (fear, sadness, etc), on the other side Coleridge and Byron created natural beautifull images.

The Rocking-Horse Winner CORRECTION

For me this short story is very comtemporany. In its topic, there are lots of peolple who preffer live in a unconfortable way instead of lose their social status. I Think that the house’s voice was their need of being rich and live as the upper do, this sentence told me how ambitious can humans be: “"There MUST be more money! There MUST be more money!"”, i feel this voice was the mother’s disire of have more and more. This need was so strong that corrupt to a boy and that is the reason why the boy wanted to be lucky, wanted to have money, to show his mother that he can lucky and he can help her.

The Signal-Man CORRECTION

When I read "The Signal-Man" I could see much isolation, I felt that the main character was completely alone,as well as Oliver Twist who was an orphan.
Both stories showed us a problem in those time, the revolution changed the way that industries produced goods, but also changed how people lived. People from the country-side left their home and looked up an space in big cities. This change produce overcrowed among the working class.Today it is possible to see similar situations among poor imigrant or our working class, this problem has survived a hundred of years in the third world.

Frankesstein and Mary Shelley CORRECTION

The first point which is really important in order to contrast Mari Shelley’s life and Frankenstein’s is about the relationship with the environment. Both were educated by the experience and without any guide. Mary’s mother died before her adolescence and the monster was abandoned by his creator. The author and the creation were educated by books, imitation and their own experience.

Another point that is possible to see in the Shelley and the 8-feet being is that they felt rejected by their environments. The clearest example of this rejection is the relation that Shelley had with her father, on the other side the doctor Victor Frankenstein felt so disappointed with his creation, for that reason the intelligent man spent much time with his creation.

In conclusion they were educated by themselves and with nobody to help them

Kubla Khan or, a Vision In a Dream CORRECTION

It is easy to find in the poem elements from the nature, which gives us instantaneous pleasure; He described a beautiful place without any human intervention, full of marvellous factors which could give a majestic experience. Human beings are full of negative and positive features and the character of this poem shows him as a surprised and a frightful being. The poem also explain how small we are when we are compared with the nature, but he is someone who can enjoy what nature give him and the honey-dew is a good example of it. The author gives us a tremendous view of a place which has a lot of natural elements, but he gave some fantastic gifts to a common cave, he started in a normal place and he added magic, and when it is ready we can read a brilliant poem. This poem move us to other world, a place where is possible to feel what nature feel, a place where water can be more than a simple drink.

Romanticism

The world has known many different ways or expressing felling, motions or historical issues, from the very begging, cavemen by their cave paintings, until today with many people express themselves by Pop-Art or taking works from the past. One of these movements is romantics. It covered different ways of art: philosophy, visual arts, music and literature.

Romantics could be seen as a result of the changes that were presented in the XVIII century, including French revolution and its new ideas. On the other hand romanticism has their roots in two very different countries. Germany and Britain, then it were spread for the rest of Europe, and in a short time this movement arrives in United States.

There are many important artists who were role models. In this movement it possible to find some of the best musicians of the history: Ludwig Van Beethoven and his symphonies; Frederic Chopin and his concertos and Richard Wagner and Operas. Visual arts had a lot of changes, based in their exponent. In England was Joseph Mallord William Turner (Ivy Bridge,1813), France was represented by Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (Liberty Leading the People, 1830) and Spain had a Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Los fusilamientos de la montaña del Príncipe Pío, 1814) as a role model. Finally in literature we can find a lot of good writers of poems and novels.

When we look for which are the elements of this way of expression are, we can find a huge topic which derive in two topics. The first one is the relation between humankind and nature and this idea moves on the Greatness of nature, including extraordinary features, in the other side, romanticism describe how human feel, how they express their felling.

This painting is a good way to understand what romanticism is. The Beauty and immensity of nature and the relation with humankind,

This two poems "September 1, 1939" and "Two Armies", which were created by W.H Auden and Stephen Spender respectively, show a strong image of a hard and violent time. Both tell us felling about war, and the most present are confusion and destruction.
I think that war has no positive element, destroy someone or something just for power… when we talk about “fight for a country”; my question is what a country is? A flag, we, the piece of earth, maybe fight for you or your family is a good reason, but I don’t know any war which the main topic was social welfare.

regrettablely wars always start for money or power

Virginia Woolf’s essay
Being a woman it’s hard, but on Woolf’s times this reality was harder. In the text it is really easy to identify two big issues:
1-“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
2- Women were discriminated by the two most important educative institutions.
The first point shows how difficult was written for women, they need a complete independence, and no one helped them, because they were women. “A room for my own” explains the need of having a space for being free to create.
The second point gives us a context, it explains how it worked, women have to be supervised by a man, they didn’t have a real chance of decide for themselves.
The text presents a woman fighting for their rights.

Romanticism
This movement emerged as an alternative to a society dominated by the reason. When Romanticism appeared it is a clear fact, some authors say that it started in the 1760s and ended after 50 years (1830s), in the other side it is possible to find some experts who say romanticism were presented 90 years, between 1760 and 1850. this movement changed the artistic world, the website www.wsu.edu says : “Romanticism transformed poetry, the novel, drama, painting, sculpture, all forms of concert music (especially opera), and ballet ” That artistic movement had a lot of relevance n The United States, romantic ideals could stimulated the political revolution in 1776.
Some of the most important exponents in the British Romanticism were Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy B. Shelley, John Keats and Lord Byron. these romantic exponent were very educated people, for example: Samuel Taylor Coleridge were poet, philosopher and critic , then it is possible to mentioned to Percy Bysshe Shelley who spent some time in Oxford and the he had a closed relationship with a philosopher.
When a romantic poem is read, the reader can see an image full of imagination, a beautiful picture plenty of nature with supernatural characteristics. Romanticism mixes the world’s nature and the human being’s nature, it give us transcendence by the union between men and women and mountains, rains, animals or plants , among other natural elements. Poets tended to write about the relationship between humans and the nature, showing a lot of consideration with who were the artists. Another really important element in romanticism is imagination as http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu says “The imagination was elevated to a position as the supreme faculty of the mind. This contrasted distinctly with the traditional arguments for the supremacy of reason. The Romantics tended to define and to present the imagination as our ultimate "shaping" or creative power, the approximate human equivalent of the creative powers of nature or even deity” , in other words imagination makes us something similar to God with the faculty of create a reality.
In order to understand what romanticism means it is really important to analisis a poem full of natural elements, Kubla Khan or, a Vision In a Dream by Samuel Taylor Coleridge this poem gives us a lot of images which mix real natural features and supernatural elements which give us a huge enjoyment, the author was able to described us a virgin, beautiful place, a virgin land, were human beings were totally absent. Then Coleridge shows to the reader how negative or positive can be our emotion, how changeable we can be in comparison with the nature. Because the character of the poem was at some moment positively surprised, then he felt frightful and very small when he compared himself with the nature. This poem was full of magic images as “honey-dew hath” or “milk of Paradise.” these elements are gifts of the nature and make this poem a brilliant one. In some way this poem could be result of the opium in the author’s mind, but it could not care less when readers have the chance of read it.
In sum, romanticism change the world in some ways, gave us an alternative to the rational thinking, it gave us the possibility of create a new world full of nature and the plesure that nature can gives us. Romanticism mix the every day life with our dreams and this was the reason of the analisis that is presents in this essay, living a dream as the main character did, that was the life that this movement offered us, a world without any bounder.

The Rocking-Horse Winner

For me this short story is very comtemporany in its topic, there are lots of peolple who preffer live in a unconfortable way instead of lose their social status. I Think that the house’s voice was their need of being rich and live as the upper do, this senteces told me how ambitious can human be: “"There MUST be more money! There MUST be more money!"”, i feel this voice was the mother’s disire of have more and more. This necesity was so strong that corrupt to a boy and that is the reason why the boy wanted to be lucky, wanted to have money, to show his mother that he can lucky and he can help her.

stories in the industrial revolution

When I read "The Signal-Man" I could see much isolation, I felt that the main character was complety alone,as well as Oliver Twist who was an orphan.
Both stories showed us a problem in those time, the revolution changed the way that industries produced goods, but also changed how people lived. Peolple from the country-side left their home and looked up an space in big cities. This change produce overcrowed among the working class.Today it is possible to see similar situations among poor imigrant or our working class, this problem has suvirved hundred of years in the third world.

Frankesstein and Mary Shelley

The first point which is really important in order to contrast Mari Shelley’s life and Frankenstein’s is about the relationship with the environment. Both were educated by the experience and without any guide. Mary’s mother died before her adolescences and the monster was abandoned by his creator. The author and the creation were educated by books, imitation and their own experience.

Another point that is possible to see in the Shelley and the 8-feet being is that they felt rejected by their environments. The clearest example of this rejection is the relation that Shelley had with her father, on the other side the doctor Victor Frankenstein felt so disappointed with his creation, for that reason the intelligent man spent much time with his creation.

In conclusion they were educated by themselves and with nobody to help them

Coleridge's quotes

Kubla Khan or, a Vision In a
Dream

It is easy to find in the poem elements from the nature, which give us instantaneous pleasure; He described a beautiful place without any human intervention, full of marvellous factors which could give a majestic experience. Human beings are full of negative and positive fixtures and the character of this poem shows him as a surprised and frightful been and the poem also explain how small we are when are compared with the nature, but he is someone who can enjoy what nature give him and the honey-dew is a good example of it. The author gives us a tremendous view of a place which has a lot of natural elements, but he gave some fantastic gifts to a common cave, he started in a normal place and he added magic, and when it is ready we can read a brilliant poem. This poem move us to other world, a place where is possible to feel what nature feel, a place where water can be more than a simple drink.

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