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American Romantics and Transcendentalism
The 60’s (1800’s style)
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Romantics and Transcendentalism
– Both movements emphasized an aesthetic experience identifying new emotions such as anxiety, awe, terror, and horror.
– Both draw inspiration from things beyond the ordinary, and encouraged truth and strong feelings.
– The two movements began practically simultaneously
Romantic Movement
– Romanticism exemplifies the importance of emotions and freedom over intellectual growth. They believe that everyone should follow what they’re feeling.
– Popular literary authors include Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Romanticism
– They also explored the ideas of exquisiteness, the weird and exotic. This movement shaped the start of the Industrial Revolution.
– stressed the power of good in preventing evil.
– God or divine being is not necessarily the center of the universe. They believe He has a place, but people have free will.
– People choose to be good or evil.
Poe: First author to scare the bejibbies out of Americans
– A few of his stories
– "The Black Cat" Horror story about a cat"The Cask of Amontillado" A story of revenge"The Masque of the Red Death” The horror of the plague"The Pit and the Pendulum” A torture chamber"The Premature Burial” About being buried alive"The Tell-Tale Heart” A murderer's guilt
Horror stories…
– Most authors didn’t write this way, could have had something to do with Poe’s personal habits and life; but, he made a ‘monster’ because most people love horror stories.
Hawthorne…(Scarlet Letter)
– Writing about issues in America, rather than hiding them or not discussing them. American Authors still write in this fashion…Authors write about issues.
– The American Dream becomes ‘attractive’ and real to Americans. What is your definition of the American Dream?______________________________
Mark Twain(America’s most famous icons)
– Real name Samuel Clemons
– Known as America’s Author. Used different dialects in his writing.
– Novels: Huckleberry Finn, Adventures of Tom Sawyer…
– He wrote articles, humorous stories, Short stories, Novels, Plays…
– Huge Civil Rights Activist! Strongly against slavery!
– "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do” M.Twain
Transcendentalism Movement
– Transcendentalism draws inspiration from the beyond (God or other supreme being) or external to the human perspective even beyond reasoning and normal traditions.
– Popular literary authors include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Henry David Thoreau
Transcendentalists
– believe in a philosophy of refinement but still connects to sensual motives. Transcendentalism also pertains to the ground of religion, inner spirituality, and the essence of man in upholding nature as a sanctuary.
– POETRY BECOMES KEY TO AMERICAN AUTHORS
Poetry becomes more…Whitman (America’s 1st great poet)– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_zsMwCOoEs
– “Oh, Me! Oh Life!”
Thoreau (Deep thinking evolves) EVERYTHING WRITTEN HAS A PURPOSE
– “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.”
Some believe these movements never ended in America
– Think about what we write/read about. What movies we enjoy. What we enjoy about life.
Carpe diem, ya’ll….;)
Tomorrow bring a blanket and a notebook and meet me on the front lawn (out by the teacher’s parking lot)
References
– Read more: Difference Between Romanticism and Transcendentalism | Difference Between | Romanticism vs Transcendentalism http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/culture-miscellaneous/difference-between-romanticism-and-transcendentalism/#ixzz3mwnqYruM