Romanticism

Introduction

Romanticism is a cultural and political movement originated in Germany and the United Kingdom (Great Britain and Northern Ireland) in the late eighteenth century as a revolutionary reaction against the rationalism of the Enlightenment and Classicism, giving priority to those feelings. Its key feature is the break with classical tradition based on a stereotyped set of rules. Authentic freedom is its constant search, which is why its revolutionary feature is unquestionable, because romance is a way of feeling and conceiving of nature, life and man himself is presented differently in each country and particularly where it is developed, even within the same nation also show different trends projected in all the arts. This paper discusses about romanticism in the context of poetry. In addition to this, it highlights the key characteristics presented by people like Tom Lea and Peter Hurd, and also in the poem 'The Fall' by Lamartine.

Discussion

Romanticism was developed in the first half of the nineteenth century, stretching from England to Germany to reach other countries. His literary fragment shed later in various streams like Parnasianismo, the symbolism, the decadence or the Pre-Raphaelites, gathered in the general designation of post-Romanticism, which was a derivation of the so-called Spanish-American Modernism. It had fundamental contributions in the fields of literature, painting and music. Subsequently, one of the current avant-garde of the twentieth century, the Surrealism, led to the postulates end romantic exaltation of self (Andrews, Pp. 14-38).

Romanticism is a reaction against the spirit of rational and critical of the Enlightenment and Classicism, and favored above all:

The consciousness of self as an autonomous entity and against the universality of reason eighteenth century, equipped with skills and individual variables such as fantasy and feeling.

The primacy of the creative genius of a universe of its own, the poet as a demiurge.

Appreciation of difference compared to the common, leading a strong nationalist tendency.

The liberalism against despotism.

The originality in the classical tradition and adherence to the canons. Each man must show what makes you unique.

Creativity in imitation of the old to the gods of Athens.

The imperfect, unfinished and open about the perfect work, completed and closed.

Poetry is not only an art; it also becomes a means of knowledge. For Victor Hugo, the romantic poet must be a mage (hence the representation of light), a light which must guide the people and fulfill a mission at once political, religious and poetic. Lamartine, Hugo and Nerval poetry guide to the path of modernity, and to give the ambitious mission of "totality": "everything is open; all is an art, everything from citizenship in poetry" (preface Orientals) (Bloom, Pp. 35-98).

The birth of romantic lyricism is usually dated 1820, appear when the poetic meditations of Lamartine. The lyricism evokes a very particular way of speaking, a poetic and passionate way to live. Mediations are a poetic collection of twenty-four poems that constituted a revolution in poetic, powerfully expressing the torments of love and soul. It is in the nature and poetry as the wounded soul finds comfort and hope for ...