LITERATURA del ROMANTICISMO: Características, temas y autores

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Romanticism. Just mentioning the

word makes you start thinking of a

lot of corny and nonsensical things. You haven't been

deceived all your

life. And I ask you today: Do you want to

know the true characteristics

of Romanticism? Do you want to know them for

real and never forget them?

If you have answered yes, join me in watching

this video.

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On this occasion, we are going to

talk about Romanticism, especially

literary Romanticism, and we are going to

learn about it through seven

characteristics. And at the end, I will give you a

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ado let's begin number 7 arose in

opposition to neoclassicism

romanticism is pure rebellion and to

illustrate with an example let's see the

following then dad really I mean

let me live stop feeling let me make

mistakes experiment

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the stupid girl must be looking at her

chest must be talking to herself dad

really that's enough let me

feel let me be one with nature you

should I don't know smoke something to

relax you all the time with that speech about

working and working please you

really are very annoying and that I should study so that I am

somebody in life then I am not

somebody in life

spends all day looking at nature

while neoclassicism clung

to reason and the coldness of

knowledge looking for the way for

humanity to progress all of this

synthesized in the phrase this movie

is to say Dare to learn or dare

to know. Romanticism, on the other hand,

opposed this entire movement. While

Neoclassicism was based on

thought, Romanticism was based

on feelings. The old paradigm

of knowledge and enlightenment

to achieve

human progress was confronted by the

torrent of emotions that manifested

not only in literature but in all

expressions of Romantic art, which

are based on feelings.

Number 6: The prevalence of Lyon,

continuing the theme of opposition

to Neoclassicism. In

Neoclassicism, cohesion and homogeneity were important;

all people

forming a group. In contrast, in

Romanticism, individuality and the

exaltation of the self exact a high price.

To illustrate with an example,

ants often work together as a team,

building

architectural wonders, but when one of them

dies or falls, the others are not defeated.

Romanticism sought to restore that

personal value of the eminently

human, of individuality. It is not

surprising that many revolutions

were fueled by Romanticism. The

next time you see

someone protesting alone in front of

a government building with a sign or

something like that, that person

is a Romantic. Do you know someone

like that?

Please let me know in the

comments. Number 5: Evasion and escape

to exotic worlds. The Romantic is a

person who suffers disillusionment. If they

feel like an unappreciated genius, they are a

kind of special person, a kind

of chosen one, someone who doesn't fit into

this society that seems banal and

superficial to them. Have you ever felt like this?

And the answer is yes. Write in the

comments section what the

Romantic did to solve this big

problem. Easy: escape, fly away,

disappear. This is very evident

in Romantic works, where

forests, exotic and ancient landscapes

are the backdrop for their

creations.

Up to this point, everything may sound magical and

wonderful, right? The problem is that

many of the authors and their followers

took this even further,

even committing suicide. Because of the

same degree of

search for freedom that

Romanticism had, suicide

became a fairly accepted theme

in their works: suicide for love, suicide

for sadness, or simply because they were...

Contrary to the ideals of

society, a historical moment

became an ideal theme for the

Romanticism of that time. We are

talking about the late 18th and much of

the 19th century. Number 4: Precisely because of

nature, Romanticism loved

natural environments, landscapes without

anything artificial. This was nothing more than the

desire to return to people their

natural human character and connection

with nature, without them forgetting their

roots. It was, of course, opposed to

Neoclassicism, which sought

mechanization and industrialization of

cities, all for an excessive desire

for progress. In that sense,

Romantic works gain considerable value insofar as they have

that delicate connection with

nature.

Hence, ancestral tales, legends, and

folktales

acquired great value for

Romanticism and were taken into account when creating the

greatest works. It was

simply an expression

of art for art's sake, a

magical connection between the true origin of the

human being and their meaning. Number 3: Melancholy,

sadness, and loneliness.

Indeed, the Romantic author is

someone introspective, very sentimental, and

sometimes dark. Furthermore, they choose states of mind in the night.

Melancholics, sadness

as part of their feelings; generally,

Romantics seem to be in low

spirits, in depressive states. In this, they

resemble Baroque authors

who saw the fragility of life and

the imminence of death as a

very important theme. This trait is another that

contradicts Neoclassicism, since

while the Enlightenment thinkers valued

strength, vitality, power,

and the desire to progress through

reason, the Romantics anchored themselves to their

senses, to their emotions, and states that

could well oscillate between fascination

and delight, as well as decadence

and sadness. And don't forget that

football fans are also

Romantics.

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Number two: the key word of

Romanticism is freedom. This word is

nothing more and nothing less than the

main ingredient of Romanticism, so keep it in mind.

Want to test it? Review some

anthems written in the 19th century by many

nations that freed themselves from empires, and you

will realize that this tag, the

tag "freedom," is a

trending word. If string number 1:

true origin of the word Romanticism or

Romantic? You weren't expecting this one, were you?

Well, it seems the concept of

Romanticism as a synonym for something beautiful,

sentimental, and sublime emerged at the end

of the 18th century, right during the decline of

Neoclassicism. It was associated with an

ultra-sensitive, progressive way of thinking,

something like the

equivalent of people who

protest today. A kind

of Romantic manifesto was *

Lyrical Words*, a

work published by its authors Samuel

Coolidge and William Wordsworth in 1798.

However, there are much

older indications; we go back to the border

between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

when some European peoples

used the term *romance*

to refer to deeply

sentimental scenes. All this, unlike *

novela*, which comes from the

Old Italian *novela* or *novelas*, meaning novelty

or news, thus leaving the term *novela*

as the general description of

narrative.

And now, the promised gift: a

flight of

German authors - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

died at 82 years old. Cause of death:

heart attack. Works: *

Faust* and *The Sorrows of Young Werther*.

Representative of France:

Victor Hugo died of 83 years old from

pneumonia. Representative works: Les

Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris.

Representative for Spain: Gustavo Adolfo

Bécquer. Dies at 34 years old from

tuberculosis. Representative works:

Rimas and Cartas desde mi celda. His

work stands out for having a high

lyrical and sentimental sense. Spain

repeats:

José de Espronceda. Dies at 34 years old

from diphtheria. His most

representative works are El estudiante de

Salamanca and El diablo mundo. His work is

characterized by being very seductive. For

Italy: Giacomo Leopardi. Dies of

cholera at 38 years old.

Representative works: Canzoni and Ver

si que significan (Songs and Verses). He

stands out for having a high sense of

pessimism. Lord Byron of England dies

of typhoid fever at 36 years old. Representative works:

Manfred Cain. He stands out for having a

life full of excesses and scandals. Edgar Allan

Poe of the USA dies in a

mysterious way. Even almost two centuries later,

his death is a mystery.

Representative works: The Black Cat And

extraordinary stories from Mexico:

Manuel Acuña, the Rom, died by suicide

at 24. His masterpiece, Nocturno, is

said by some close associates to be

dedicated to Rosario de la

Peña, his eternal love, his impossible love. From

Argentina: Esteban Echeverría

died at 45 from tuberculosis.

Representative works: El Matadero,

various poems and prose writings.

And finally, from Colombia: Jorge Isaacs

died of malaria at 58. His

masterpiece, La María, is representative

of Romanticism not only in his country

but throughout Latin America. Perfect,

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