Romantic+Era

=Romantic Era=

=[|Romantic Era: Website]= (from website) The Romantic Movement brought a change in the way people thought about art, writing, and other creative endeavors. The era of Romanticism began in the 1700s and lasted into the mid nineteenth century. The word //Romantic//, in this case, refers to a shift in thinking and not a scenario of two [|singles] on a date. The writers and artists of the Romantic Movement created work that celebrated nature and the spirit of the individual. Emotion, imagination, and independent thinking are three common ingredients often found in the creative work of this particular era. In fact, with the arrival of the Romantic Movement the stale rules of convention and traditional thinking were quickly tossed out to make way for a whole new approach to artistic creation.

=In class Monday:= Please find an image or sound recording that illustrates the Romantic element in your musician, painter, poet, or write. Paste the image below, and briefly explain the Romantic content in a few sentences.

=Beethoven (Leo)= The ** Symphony No. 5 in C minor ** of [|Ludwig van Beethoven], [|Op.] 67 A symphony written in Romanticism era by Beethoven. The motif of the symphony has sometimes been credited with symbolic significance as a representation of Fate knocking at the door.

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=Delacroix (Cherilynn)= Death of Sardanapalus by Eugene Delacroix (1827) A work produced in the era of Romanticism inspired by the tale of Sardanapalus who is the last king of Assyria, an ancient Greek historian. It is an oil painting on canvas that portrays golden elephants with a women asking for mercy. ==

=Wordsworth (Emma)=

She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.

I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too! Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin-liberty; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.

And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller between life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.

It was written in 1804, Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature. **Poe (Evelyn)**

A Dream Within A Dream
 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?

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