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Romanticism is a movement commonly
known as Romantic Movement,
which begins in the very beginning
of the 19 th century and flourished
in the middle of the 19 th century.
It was a movement in philosophy
and literature as a reaction
to the previous age of reason
of Kant. The age of reason had
certain norms and values on
literature: it was believed
that literature is the product
of mind so reason, logic, intellect,
talent, wit etc were the catch
terms is the age or reason similarly
it was also considered that
a writer is a god gifted man
born to be the writer .
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Literature
was considered as the
product of complex human
mind so it should have
complex language with
satire, irony and metaphorical
elements. The complete
literature of the age
of reason was beyond
the city life. Romanticism
is the reaction of the
age of reason that has
brought new ideas, norms
and values that were
different from the values
of the previous age.
Instead of mind, Romanticism
gave importance to heart,
so literature was considered
as the product of human
heart. The catch terms
in the romanticism were
passion, emotion, feelings,
yearning, dream, fantasy,
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Similarly, romantic writers
and philosophers rejected the
city life and accepted the rustic
countryside natural human life.
As the romantic writers were
influenced by Rousseau, slogan
'back to nature', they adopted
natural life as the subject
matter of their study. Similarly,
they have also changed the language;
literature instead of complete
ironic and satiric language,
they used simple and common
language spoken by the ordinary
people of the countryside. So
Romanticism was developed as
a reaction to the age of reason.
There
were certain romantic philosophers
and writers. Navalis Beet haven
and Schiller are the well-known
romantic philosophers. Blake,
Words worth, Coleridge, Shelley
and Byron are the well romantic
writers or poets. These philosophers
as well as the writers had certain
norms and values, which are
called philosophy or elements
of romanticism. They are also
called bases or equalities of
romanticism. They are worshiper
of nature. Among the elements
of romanticism, worship of nature
is the most important and common
to the philosophers as well
as writers. The romantic philosophers
as the writers gave organization
to nature because in their view
nature has greatness and big
life with in it, giving importance
to nature and found fresh and
blood in nature. Schiller the
well-known romantic philosophers
said 'Nature is visible spirit
while spirit is invisible nature'.
It means human heart and nature
are similar. The only difference
is that nature is visible heart
while heart is invisible nature.
Romantic
poet also gives high importance
to nature. They had their own
opinion and view about nature.
For William Blake nature is
mysterious and contradictory.
To understand nature we need
sixth sense organ, which is
spiritual perception in the
words of Plato. Words Worth
gets everything is nature the
role of the parents to give
love and the role of the characteristics
to teach him how to create a
literature. For Coleridge, nature
is super natural world, and
for Keats and Shelley the suffering
and misery is the theme of nature
under Romanticism. Byron expressed
unfulfilled sexuality as the
subject matter of Romanticism.
Like
nature worship, ego worship
is the philosophy of the Romanticism.
The Romantic writers were guided
by self-egotism who considered
themselves equal with God. They
claimed that god is the creator
of the universe and the earth
and writers are creators like
God. They gave high importance
to the individualism of the
Renaissance humanism. Similarly,
romantic Philosopher and writers
believed on the omnipresence
of God, which was also believed
by the Renaissance philosophers
known as pantheism. It is another
similarity between renaissance
and romanticism. But romantic
philosophers and writers were
more ambition because sometimes
they considered writers more
powerful then God. They claimed
that God has created only one
universe but writers possess
the power of crediting more
than one universal in literature.
Another
philosophy of Romanticism is
maximum imagination, which is
like the daydreaming; Wordsworth
lost himself in the day dreaming
with imagination so that he
could create literature. But
Romantic writers were not only
day dreamers but also they used
dream as the subject of literature.
Coleridge used the vision of
dream as the subject matter
of his poetry. He was so much
interested in mystery of super
nature, so his dreams are also
connected with super naturalism.
Romanticism was developed in
two modes: universal Romanticism
and national Romanticism.
Universal
Romanticism was wider than national
Romanticism because it appealed
the universality of the human
heart. It made emotions, feelings
and passion of the human heart
as the subject matter of literature
so that universal Romanticism
captured all humans’ feelings
on the world. The
poems of Wordsworth, Keats and
Shelley are universal romantic
poet’s, which applies
our emotions and feeling. On
the other hand, national Romanticism
was not as wide as universal
Romanticism because it was limited
in the territory of a nation.
The culture, religion, language
of a nation is the subject matter
of national romanticism. It
began in Germany with the collection
of ferry tales by Grimm Brothers.
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