Romanticism

Romanticism Romanticism began in the early 19th century and totally changed the way people viewed themselves and the condition of nature around them. Unlike Classicism, which stood for order and established the foundation for architecture, literature, painting and music, Romanticism allowed people to get away from the limited, rational views of life and concentrate on an emotional and sentimental side of humanity. This not only influenced political doctrines and ideas, but was also a sharp contrast from ideas and harmony featured during the Enlightenment. The Romantic era grew alongside the Enlightenment, but concentrated on human diversity and looking at life in a new way. It was the combination of modern Science and Classicism that gave birth to Romanticism and introduced a new outlook on life that embraced emotion before rationality. Romanticism was a diehard period of history when its seeds became planted in poetry, artwork and literature. The Romantics turned to the poet before the scientist to harbor their convictions. They symbolize what Romanticism stood for. His character expressed feelings from the heart and gave way to a new trend of expressing emotions through individuality as opposed to collectivism. The perception that the Enlightenment was destroying the natural human soul and romanticism, people, nature, life, political, new, literature, enlightenment, way, science, poetry, offered, mankind, ideas, human, heart, century, written, without, vision, stood, soul, since, rational, period, outlook, natural, movement, man, looking, group, gave, freedom, free, found, form