Often times when people hear the word romance, they think in matters of the cultural definition; this consisting of passionate love, companion love, and infatuation. Cultural romance is a common theme in today’s society, and it is often the only form of romance that people today are familiar with or even aware of. However, romance can also be thought of in terms of its dictionary definition. Romance can be described as a specific time period, art style or genre, events, one’s imagination, or someone’s private escape from the world. It can be demonstrated through many different art forms such as paintings, movies, literary forms such as poetry, and music, all of which was discussed in this class (Romance Theme: Definitions). On specific art piece that depicts the dictionary definition is Francis Danby’s painting “The Deluge.” In this painting, the famous flood that occurs in the book of Genesis of the Old Testament is the center point of the events in this painting. It shows people and animals in the water, struggling against the powerful waves of the storm. They are trying to cling to trees, land, and rocks in order to be saved from the deathly water that surrounds them. In the far distance you can make out the shape of Noah’s Arc and a bright red sun. Noah and his family, along with animals, were safe from the storm because God had commanded Noah to build the arc in order for him, his family, and two of each animal to be saved. Because it is showing an event that happened
In the nineteenth century, growing industrialization led people to impersonal, greedy, and selfish lives. As a reaction against this situation, romanticism emerged; this artistic movement offered people the place away from the corrupted society. During this era, people favored untamed nature instead of unscrupulous society. Upon a people’s encounter with Romanticism, they enjoyed an enthusiastic burst of feelings. This era is characterized by not only an outpouring of emotions but also themes of imagination, fantasy, emotion, nature, superstition, individuality, mystery and the supernatural. Among them, nature, imagination, and superstition theme were the most beloved theme during this period, particularly demonstrated by give stories of The Most Sublime Spectacle on Earth, Nature, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Devil and Tom Walker.
The Romantic era began in 1770, with its peak being from 1800 to 1850. With emphasis on the imagination and emotion, Romanticism emerged as a result of the Enlightenment period, which heavily placed values upon reason and order. Thus, Romanticism depends heavily on “the practical accomplishments of the prior un-Romantic era— a relationship between material wealth and scientific knowledge on one hand, and personal, spiritual, or emotional transcendence on the other, that twenty-first century Americans continue to manage.” The simplest explanation for what is Romantic is “‘anything but the here and now’ or whatever is not realistic” (“Romanticism”). The
The Romance Narrative is rife with traditional literary tropes. If you’ve read such tales as swashbuckling wandering knights facing magic dragons and other such impossible odds, then you have an idea of what this genre is about. The tradition dates back to the epic, and can be seen in early mythological tales such as the Illiad, or the Odyssey, and early English stories like Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or the Arthurian tales. They include adventure and fantastical elements; heroes battle villains to determine if good can triumph over evil.
Romanticism is an intellectual, spiritual, and literary movement that begins at the start of the nineteenth century and concludes at the beginning of the twentieth century. Of the many characteristics that are associated with Romanticism, the characteristics that are most evident in literature from this period are the characteristics of individuality and imagination. The author Edgar Allen Poe exhibits these characteristics in his works “The Black Cat”, and the “The Raven”.
The author starts by telling us that romance most likely began on the fields of Africa a long time ago, when modern humans existed, and that the thought of sentimental love started to bloom when neurochemicals spilled out of the mind to the circulation system, to deliver silly romantic gestures. Physical features were than in full show, as were different attributes,
Romance has been around for as long as human beings have been alive. The concept or romance changes through time and culture. In the Egyptian and Chinese ancient love poems, civilizations that seem distant from each other end up sharing similar concepts of romance. To them, a romance develops in steps which incorporate seeing their beloved from afar, trying to get to them, and alas having them. A closer look at both poems "My god, my Lotus…" and "Fishhawk", can show how two cultures characterize the steps it takes in order to acquire romance.
Work of art from the Romantic time period shares many similarities with work that is seen in the modern world and today’s audience can relate greatly to art from that time. There is a strong sense of emotion and erotic response in art in the modern age and people react strongly to that. Art from romanticism brings out the same emotion and response.
Being a huge movement that influenced Western Civilization, Romanticism has several elements and characteristics that developed over time. One important ideal of Romanticism is the preference of imagination over reason and judgment. Imagination is a great tool with many functions that gives people several abilities for creating all kinds of art, for imagination is the “ultimate ‘shaping’ or creative power” (“Romanticism”).
Love is one of the most highly spoken of emotions in human culture; it is revered as holy, or viewed as manic and obsessed, depending on the situation and context of said love. And there are so many way to love. But there is still only one “romance,” personified as red and passionate, reinforced with strong feelings of affection. Well, there is only one human romance. Because you wouldn’t view hate as romance, would you? Some would beg to differ. These certain some have four different types of romance, kept in four quadrants, with the colors of red, pale, black, and ashen associated with them. These some are aliens, trolls, from a planet called Alternia, fictitious creatures from an epic written by Andrew Hussie. And the similarities and differences
The Age of Romanticism gave birth to a generation of creators, who understood the very basis of wonder and fear. From painter to poet, from pianist to politician, the works of the Romantic era catapulted the rare and exciting—those who offered bare emotion. Like any age, Romanticism was not wholly sound; war, strife, and poverty still existed. And so, it was tragedy and misery that produced the sensitivity and “problems of the heart.”
BaFa BaFa is a cultural game which consist of two cultures, the Alpha and the Beta. The Alpha were more friendly and did not care to much for competition. They also like to touch and speak very close to one another. The males for the Alpha were of higher importance then women. As for the Beta they were all about competition and were always moving around. They also speak in a different language. I was chosen to be an Alpha.
Lastly, the Romantic Era blended human emotions with nature. The interfacing of emotion and nature was emblematic of Romantic poetry, whether it engrossed the idea of bequeathing human emotions to an innate article like a river or connecting the scenery to the temperament of the writer. (James, 491) This kind of beauty that is
Romanticism can be used to describe a time period when poets, painters, essayists and composers increasingly came to view nature itself as the greatest teacher (Sayre 177). Romantic artist believed that the past Classical values of dominance were over. Romanticism believed by a new way of living one where emotion and feeling can into play. Romantics had a very deep and passionate feeling for the beauty of nature and how it corresponds to life. The emotion of the new view of an individual creator, whose creative spirit is more important than strict adherence to formal rules and traditional procedures in romanticism (Britannica). I feel that people felt a time of relief when painting they did not need to feel like they were subject to a certain
Consequently, this picturesque poetic device helped communicate the theme of lost love by helping the reader associate the personas’ thoughts and beliefs with their own.
The following can lead to difficulty because, in a sense, people of today are inclined towards an ideal view of romance. People are blinded by what they see in the media and relate whatever