Understanding Interest Rates

It was a complex, artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that started in the second half of the eighteenth century in Western Europe, influenced by the French Revolution (1789) and the Industrial Revolution. It represented a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and focused on escaping from reality and traditional origins.

The romantic poets laid emphasis on imagination and emotion. The 18th century neo-classical poets had emphasized reason and intellect, beauty of forms, the pursuit of ancient artistic origins.

All romantic literature is subjective. It is an expression of the inner urges of the soul of the artist. The poet gives free expression to his feelings, emotions, experiences, thoughts and ideas and does not care for rules and regulations. The emphasis is laid on inspiration and intuition, the freedom from the constraint of reason and realism, so the writer writes according to his own fancy.

<p>Zest for the beauties of the external world characterizes all romantic poetry. Romantic poetry carries us away from the suffocating atmosphere of cities into the isolation of nature and greenness. All poets were lovers of nature and looked at the beautiful aspects of nature. To them, nature was a friend, a lover, a mother, sister and a teacher.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In Romanticism, fiction will declare its disobedience and rebellion against the reason, so reason and intellect were replaced by emotion and imagination. The poets of this age gave a primary place to passion and emotion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Supernaturalism is one of the main features of romanticism. It is simply a belief in the supernatural. It is a phenomenon which cannot be explained with the help of science. The belief in the supernatural has been universal in all ages. Supernatural element in literature gives it a new dimension. It is exercised both in poetry and prose.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Most of the romantic poets in English are full of melancholy and pessimism. A romantic is dissatisfied individual. He may be dissatisfied with the circumstances of his own, with his age, with literary conventions and</p> Signup and view all the answers