In I Heard the Learned Astronomer, Whitman takes an Astronomy lecture to heart, and never looks at the sky the same way. Instead of learning the details of the stars, he finds a new nature to their being. This shows, Emotion and Imagination reveal more truth than intellect and logic because he spaces out during the Astronomy lecture and ends up finding out more than the lecture could have taught him. .
The last of The Natural World category says Spiritual Progress is more desirable than material gain. In Henry David Thoreau's numerous pieces of writings he shows a numerous amount of different Romantic Values. In Work he shows this particular value when he writes, "If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!" He is saying that cutting down all the trees in the forests is not worth all the money because those trees provide so much pleasure and spirituality for so many people. .
The next Romantic Value is Individualism. In the movie Dead Poets Society, A young man by the name of Neal Perry goes out to play "Puck" in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", against his father's strict orders not to. Peter Weir shows the value of Rebellion against unjust laws (rules): stand up for what is right for humanity. .
Weir also shows Individualism when the teacher in the movie uses Car pe Diam or Cease the Day to motivate his students. This shows Be yourself; rely on your own inherent wisdom as part of the natural universe, because the teacher is telling the students that they need to evolve as their own unique person and stand against other peoples thoughts and opinions. .
Another Individualism is again refered to Walt Whitman in a different poem called, I Hear America Singing.
Father of Ukrainian Literature "Dig my grave and raise my barrow By the Dnieper-side In Ukraine, my own land, A fair land and wide" (Taras G. Shevchenko,www.infoukes.com) Taras Gregorievich Shevchenko (1814-1861) is one of the greatest Ukrainian poets and painters. He is deepl...
The majority of people believe that Romantism is connected with and limited by the topic of love. However, children`s innocence, adulthood`s corruption and nature`s beauty are also themes, the poets from the Romantic period are interested in. William Blake writes about those topics in his collection...
Electricity, Steel and Oil The three major improvements of the second Industrial Revolution were in the areas of energy and metal. It was based on oil, steel and electricity rather than coal and iron. The use of new materials made the second Industrial Revolution increase in size and technology, and mature more.ElectricityThe first dynamo, or electric generator, was developed in 1831. Its first applications were in communications. In 1837, two Englishmen had sent the first electric signals over a wire. ...
Romanticism was an intellectual movement that emerged throughout Europe during the period of the French Revolution and Napoleonic rule. In a reaction against the Enlightenment, romanticism emphasized the value of intuition, spirituality, folklore, dreams, and other forms of human experience that lie beyond the realm of reason Romanticism's intellectual foundations were laid largely by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant. Rousseau's belief that human nature was corrupted by society and by material prosperity, and his interest in childhood, was reflected in the romantic movement...
