According to some information in English books, the critics said the name Romantic can be misleading because the Romantics do not necessarily write about the love. ... The third element that the Romantics interest in unusual or ordinary. Furthermore, Romantics had a strong belief in democracy, a deep awareness in the past. ... Therefore, Irving succeeded in creating folktale story that is Romantic. ... Talking about the poems, the reader can recognize the poems of Edgar Allan Poe are romantic. ...

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The romantic period in american literature had taken place in 1830 and lasted until 1865. ... When we think about stories that are titled 'romantic' we think about love stories and intimate romance novels, but that is not what they are talking about in the American Romantic Period. Edgar Allan Poe was an american poet considered a part of the American Romantic Movement that seemed to carry a message of gothic literature and romanticism in his works. ... This topic lead to developing the narrators madness when he was faced with the reality of his love Lenore dying being gone forever....

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Romantics believed that man, while certainly capable of evil, was inherently good natured, but that civilization as a whole was flawed and corrupt. ... The vast unknown of the American West appealed to the Romantic followers as they saw nature as a source of wisdom and inspiration for the soul. ... The Romantic Movement saw many authors become household names. Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Edgar Allen Poe became well-known advocates of Romantic ideals. ... "The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one poi...

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William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Copper and Edgar Allen Poe were major contributors to the Romantic Movement. ... A theme that is used in nearly every literary piece is nature, which Romantic poets utilize to convey their overall message to their readers. ... He helps get the ball rolling for the Romantic period while acting as a standard for many aspiring poets for years to come. ... "To him who in the love of Nature holds communion with her visible forms, she speaks a various language; for his gayer hours she has a voice of gladness, and a smile and eloquence of beau...

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The Dark Side of Poe Edgar Allen Poe was known as a Dark Romantic because of his style of writing. ... Poe used the literary technique of symbolism very well, which Dark Romantics were known to use quite often. ... Poe's description of the house and Roderick show the readers his true qualities as a Dark Romantic writer. ... Lenore was a past love of Poe who had passed away. When the tapping began on his chamber door one of his first thoughts was that it was the spirit of Lenore who came back to see her love. ...

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Furthermore, it is Christ who admonished us to love our enemies (Matthew 5:44) and not to kill others (Mark 10:19). ... Melville used his black cook, Fleece, to criticize economic individualism as conflicting with the Christian value of "love your neighbor as yourself" (Matthew 19:19) by focusing instead on the ways of shark-like capitalism (582). ... Imagination The Romantic period was very strong in Imagination. ... First American romantics, such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, took this view as one of the four romantic values. ... This conforms with the Romantic d...

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According to some information in English books, the critics said the name Romantic can be misleading because the Romantics do not necessarily write about the love. ... Romantic authors were greatly interested in elements of unusualness and things that were out of the ordinary. The Romantics also possessed a strong belief in democracy, a deep awareness in the past. ... Therefore, Irving succeeded in creating a folktale story that is Romantic. ... Romantic stories and poems help people realize their feelings and face the problems of daily life. ...

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Like Poe, Baudelaire disliked the romantic reverence for spontaneity and inspiration. ... Baudelaire also rejected the Romantic theme of nature worship. ... Most notably in Les fleurs du mal, he exhibits a love for materialism such as perfume, jewels, precious stones, and even prostitution. Baudelaire was among few poets who loved the city, regardless of how corrupt it was. ... Baudelaire's rejection of Romantic themes did not extend to the Romantic reverence for nostalgia and memory. ...

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American "Romanticism is crucial to American culture to the extent that the very creation of the United States has been considered an expression of romantic thought" (Matterson1). ... His love for nature appears to the prevalent them between life and death. ... The aspect a reader will find evident in this writing that makes it romantic is the emphasis he puts on the beauty of nature. ... By analyzing this poem, Bryant presents ambiguity within the romantic text by purposely allowing the reader to decide the fate of the bird. ...

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The gothic content of his writing failed to surpass the popular romantic fiction of the time, so consequently Poe was disliked immensely. ... There is only a raven saying "nevermore" to remind the man of his lost love and his infinite torment. ... The prose of Edgar Allan Poe's writing is symbolic and surrealistic, yet romantic. ... Although not a traditional Romantic such as Emerson and Thoureau, who put emotion over reason and nature above all, there is a melancholic strain to romanticism that applies directly to Poe. ... The dark, chaotic, and romantic worlds that he created off...

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In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," Poe employs repetition, symbol, and romantic elements to create a sense of hopelessness and uncertainty. It treats his favorite theme, the death of a beautiful woman and how to mourn for his lost love. The repetition in this poem appeals to the sense of hopelessness the speaker feels from loosing the women he loved. ... So Pallas is a figure of love and jealousy, and with the raven perched upon his bust it would mean that the raven is superior to things such as love and jealousy. Finally romantic elements are employed in "The Raven." ...

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Poe is grouped with other writers in the Romantic period. ... He knew that his love would eventually kill her, and it did. They loved without any resistance and eventually dragged each other to death. ... Poe shows, in this instance, their love for one another had ceased, thus, breaking apart this "one being". ... His viewpoint of life was unique compared to the Romantic writers of the century. ...

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" This ending quote dictates that the reader is going thru his own personal hell having to listen to this bird taunting him about his loved one who will be seen never again. Poe can relate to how the narrator is feeling, both what to be with their true love, but life holds them back. ... With his mysterious attitude and individuality, he helped spark the Romanticism movement, and is an ideal American Romantic writer....

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Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century 11. ... The nineteenth century romantics- A. ... As exemplified in this poem, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" (recited by an actor), Dickinson focused on themes relating to death, eternity, and love, usually in sho...

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A kiss on the forehead is a well-known sign of adoration, but we are not able to tell if his love is romantic love or not. ... This is common when two people part ways, or after a loved one dies. ... Everything he loves slips through his fingers, and he is left with deep sadness. ... Poe is crying out to the heaven asking why he can't hold on to the things he loves. ...

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He called her Helen, which to his ears sounded far more romantic than Jane. ... Poe's ode to his first love, written at the youthful age of just fifteen, is one of his most famous compositions. ... Both concern Poe's primary obsession: the death of a beautiful woman and the power of love and beauty to survive beyond the grave. ... The question of whether Poe was in love with Virginia in a romantic or sexual sense has never been answered. ... Although Poe admired Virginia greatly and admits to having passionately loved her, many feel that a hint towards his feelings for her may be fou...

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He is also widely known as a poet in the Gothic Romantic movement of the 1800s. ... There he received the love that he was so long denied. ... They were able to express their love openly in marriage afterwards (Tilton 44-45). ... It was about a writer longing for his lost love. ... Interestingly, he yearned for a connection with the afterlife, especially after the deaths of his loved ones. ...

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It is true that tragedy followed Poe, especially in regards with the women he loved. ... Among these examples is "I arise from dreams of thee"," by Percy Bysshe Shelley, a romantic and surprisingly cheerful poem for a man like Poe to cite as a favorite. ... There is no denying he had his demons, many of which were responsible for the authentic evil he brought to the page, But it much also be acknowledged that Poe pursued love and joy in his life no matter how many times he lost them. ...

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He is also one of the foremost pioneers of detective fiction and is generally considered part of the American Romantic Movement especially Dark Romanticism. ... "Eros", whose name comes from the Greek god of love, is the principle of life; it binds together and is most clearly seen in love. ... And evil was the hour when she saw, and loved, and wedded the painter.... She immediately obeys out of love for her husband. ... It is written right before the death of his wife Virginia with whom Poe was deeply in love and she was dying month after their marriage because of consumption. ...

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Poe's Poems In personal appearance, Edgar Allen Poe was a quiet, shy-looking, but handsome man; he was slightly built, and was five feet, eight inches in height. His mouth was considered beautiful. His eyes, with long dark lashes, were hazel-gray. Poe's brain, on the other hand, worked on a ...

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