2) Who were the Transcendentalists, and how do their beliefs still influence American life? (170-172)
3) What darker side of human life was recognized by some major American Romantics? (172-173)
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1) What are the values of Romantics, and how did these values affect the American imagination? (162-169)
2) Who were the Transcendentalists, and how do their beliefs still influence American life? (170-172) 3) What darker side of human life was recognized by some major American Romantics? (172-173)
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Maria L.
10/28/2014 06:02:30 am
1. The values of Romanticism are to reach into the imagination of people and find “the truths the rational mind cannot reach” (165). They wanted the American people to widen their imagination, and strain from the growing movement of rationalism the industrialization had brought. To do this, they created stories of adventure and travel, in “a flight both to something, and from something” (164). However, the industrialized cities were framed as evil and corrupt, and the countryside was “associated with independence, moral clarity, and healthful fulfillment” (164). The journey through exotic, and wild nature, helped build an own American character, or identity, and the picture of an American hero.
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Jasmin Church
10/28/2014 06:31:47 am
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Anthony D.
10/29/2014 02:48:16 am
One of the beliefs of Romanticism was in the natural good of mankind. Their art contained the ideas of nature, emotion, individualism, and was a reaction against the rules and conventions of society. Immigration brought new cultures and perspectives to America.
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Ida-Kristine H. Aukan
10/29/2014 02:56:49 am
The American Romantic Poetry was the main topic. Romanticism is the name given to those who thought that value feeling and intuition over reason. They proved that Americans were not unsophisticated hick. They where working solidly within European literature, traditions rather than by crafting unique Americans setting and subjects were constructed into poems. Americans Romantics affected the American imagination by introducing a new way of thinking, believing that the imagination was bad to discover truths that the rational mind could not reach.
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Hannah S.
10/29/2014 03:59:03 am
1. The values of the Romantics were to prove that Americans weren't unsophisticated hicks. They wanted Americans to be more imaginative and to to have a greater value than reason, logic, and cultivation. The Romantics tried to get them to realize this by having them use their imagination, which then led to art and poetry. Many of those pieces have led to changes in feelings about the Romantics.
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Seren G.
10/29/2014 05:05:14 am
1) To the Romantics, imagination, individual feelings, and wild nature were of greater value than reason, logic, and cultivation.
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Dylan N
10/29/2014 05:44:23 am
Romantics value the idea of things having a greater meaning. This means that they do not believe in rational explanations and that one must use imagination rather than science and thought to come to a conclusion. They believed that the imagination should expand and that there should be a movement away from industrialization and move more toward nature. They wanted to prove that America was capable of greater thought and that there had to be a growth in imagination.
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Alberto L.
10/29/2014 06:18:27 am
1. The Romantics often contrasted good and bad, and compared these to the current world. For instance the industrialized and urban areas (cities) were pictured as the “evil” places, where corruption, dishonesty, sin, etc. occurred. Nature, the forests and non-urbanized areas, where pictured as the unknown “American wilderness”. Many of the stories had supernatural incidents, which often were tied together with religion. This led to a growing European awareness on how America actually was, and helped change the stereotype the Europeans had given the Americans, which pictured them as illiterate and unsophisticated. Also the American character was created and later the “American hero”, which is still seen in today’s literature.
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Trent W>
10/29/2014 07:09:19 am
1. The romantics valued feeling and intuition over reason and because of this it influence literature music and paintings in Europe but when it was founded in the united states its values changed. The values that the American romantics were imagination, individual feeling and wild nature this made people realize that nature is not always good and there is a danger in it.
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