What Were The Key Features And Problems With The Romantics

Question 1

What are the meanings involved in romanticism

Answer 1

-individualism + sentimental love for nature
-feeling/emotion more important than logic/experience
-utopian thought + escapism

Question 2

What are the key features in romanticism

Answer 2

-achieved new perspective on nature
-preferred emotional + spontaneous responses
-valued imagination over all mental facilities
-believed without imagination not a human being

Question 3

What are the problems associated with romanticism

Answer 3

-desire to appeal to common man — but many uneducated + political climate meant many alienated from art
-not everyone believe in romanticism — political upheaval saw some desire conservatism
-higher class consciousness — bigger class divide, Ind rev + poetry elegiac + about nature