ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Storm and Stress
A
refers to the inner soul of the Romantic poet which is more sensitive than the common man
B
is an artistic movement which rejected Neoclassicism and expressed emotional unrest
C
is a Romantic poem written by Coleridge and contained in the Lyrical Ballads
D
is an engraving by Blake representing the complementary opposites necessary for human progress
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Sturm und Drang a literary and artistic movement in Germany in the late 18th century, influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and characterized by the expression of emotional unrest and a rejection of neoclassical literary norms. The phrase is German, and means literally ‘Storm and Stress’.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sturm und Drang, (German: “Storm and Stress”), German literary movement of the late 18th century that exalted nature, feeling, and human individualism and sought to overthrow the Enlightenment cult of Rationalism.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sturm und Drang (/ˌʃtʊərm ʊnt ˈdræŋ, -ˈdrɑːŋ/, German: [ˈʃtʊʁm ʔʊnt ˈdʁaŋ]; usually translated as “storm and stress") was a proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music that occurred between the late 1760s and early 1780s.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sturm und Drang (“Storm and Stress”) was the name of a German literary movement that reached its apex in the 1770s-just as Goethe was writing The Sorrows of Young Werther.

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