They promoted, as well as celebrated freedom of expression, imagination, and emotional spontaneity. Romantic poets valued subjective thinking over rational thinking. ... Crossing Brooklyn Ferry demonstrates romanticism by way of a liberal expression of emotion in conjunction with observations made while Whitman experienced his venture. ...
People started to value and rely on their natural feelings to conduct themselves rather than their rationality. ... "On the formal level, Romanticism witnessed a steady loosening of the rules of artistic expression that were pervasive during earlier times"" (Rahn). ...
Romanticism, which was a reaction to the classicism of the early 18th century, favoured feeling over reason and placed great emphasis on the personal experience of the individual and allowed people to get away from the rational views of life and concentrate on the emotional and imaginative side of humanity; this not only influenced politics but was also a sharp contrast from previous ideas of the Renaissance period, which was human's ability to be logical and rational. ...
