Romanticism
a philosophical, artistic, and literary movement that developed partly as a reaction to the Enlightenment.
What is Romanticism?
Period defined by the belief that there was a part of the self that transcended the physical senses and logic, was highly in tune with nature, and brought individuals a kind of direct, divine knowledge.
What is transcendentalism?
Rather than focusing on collectivism (prioritization of the group), Romantics and Transcendentalists shift their focus on the self, which can be defined as?
What is individualism?
Form of poetry that isn’t bound by a strict structure (rhyme and meter).
What is free verse?
The author of "The Fall of the House of Usher."
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
Romantic genre that utilizes dark imagery and themes, and incorporates supernatural elements.
What is gothic?
End goal that transcendentalists strived for through meditative journeys in nature.
Romantics and Transcendentalists held a reverence for this thing and believed one must go to this place to discover answers of life and one’s self.
What is nature?
Form of writing that Romantic philosophers, like Fredrick Douglas, utilized.
What is essay?
The season in which the story takes place.
What is Autumn?
The vast, quick development of factories and manufactured goods. Romantics believed this thing isolated people from the natural world.
What is industrialism?
System of belief that perceived God as a singular being and had an optimistic view of human nature.
What is unitarianism?
Painters used ______________ and _____________in their attempts to capture the essence of the sublime, or the essence of greatness.
What is allegory and symbolism?
What is childhood friends?
Imaginative thinking generated by Romantic philosophers that sought to challenge the status quo of society.
What is social reform?
A tendency to consider possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values. Transcendentalists criticized this thing because they viewed it as a "corrupting influence."
What is materialism?
The adherence to traditional structures and forms. Romantics regarded this as confining and artificial.
What is formalism?
The physical setting of the story. This place is described as antiquated, decaying, and spooky. The narrator notices a fissure on the outside of this place.
What is the Usher house?