The use of light in Romantic paintings presents a stark contrast between light and very dark shadows. The source of light in Romanticism is usually artificial and intentional. ... The light is a reproduction of a natural source and forms the outline of the object. ... Gros" Napoleon Bonapart Visits the Plague Stricken at Jaffa can be contrasted to Courbet's Deer in the Forest (1868). ... Also note the realistic behavior of light in John Singer Sargent's Venetian Interior (1850-2). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

There is, I believe, envy in the words of the speaker in the opening stanza, his claim of "heart aches" and a "drowsy numbness" that holds him contrasts strongly with the lively, vivacious picture of the "light-winged Dryad of the trees" that is the nightingale. ... This is linked with his wish to 'fade away' into the forest. He wishes to follow the birds song into the forest and become one with nature. ...

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• Grade Level: High School