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American Romanticism

American Romanticism. 1800 – 1860. A New Vision for a New Nation. Industrialism causes explosive growth in cities, leading to overpopulation, illness, crime, corruption Rationalist worldview of Revolutionary Period seen as dry, cold

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American Romanticism

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  1. American Romanticism 1800 – 1860

  2. A New Vision for a New Nation • Industrialism causes explosive growth in cities, leading to overpopulation, illness, crime, corruption • Rationalist worldview of Revolutionary Period seen as dry, cold • The countryside serves as an ESCAPE from the harshness of city • Search for the spiritual - God - in NATURE • Valued feeling and INTUITION over logic and reason

  3. Progression of Thought in Developing America Colonial -religious -strict -conformity Revolutionary -reason -morality -independence Romantic -nature -escape -imagination

  4. The Five I’s of Romanticism • Inspiration • Nature as divine inspiration – Finding God in Nature • Idealism • The world only truly exists in your mind – IDEAS vs. reality –you create reality • Imagination • Respect for the creative and original thought – NON-conformity • Intuition • Value FEELING and emotion over logic and reason • Individuality • Power and potential of the individual – self-reliance

  5. Transcendental Nature is healing Optimistic Positive potential of the mind Self-reliance Reflective Essays Poetry Gothic Nature can be destructive Melancholy Darkness of the mind Guilt, frustration Fiction Novels Fiction Short Stories Two Brands of Romanticism:Transcendental and Gothic (aka Anti-Transcendental)

  6. Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep - while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? A Dream Within a Dream, by Edgar Allan Poe

  7. Using Poe’s “A Dream Within a Dream,” think about and discuss the following with a group of your peers: Is this an example of Romanticism? Why or why not? If it is an example of Romanticism, which brand does it fall under – transcendental or gothic? Why? Is this a typical Poe poem based on your prior knowledge of Edgar Allan Poe writing? Why or why not? Look carefully at the poem. Point out any poetry techniques that you notice (i.e. types of rhyme, rhyme scheme, figures of speech, etc) A Dream Within a Dream, by Edgar Allan Poe

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