ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Dark Romanticism focuses on human fallibility, self-destruction, judgement, punishment, as well as the psychological effects of guilt and sin.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dark Romantics focus on human fallibility, self-destruction, judgement, punishment, as well as the psychological effects of guilt and sin. Authors who embrace this genre include Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mostly, though not always, Dark Romantic writers want to explore the psychological effects of guilt and sin, so we see characters who are harboring guilt for their sins, and that guilt leads to the grotesque, the fantastic, or the morbid. In other words, these characters are often deranged or go mad.

Detailed explanation-4: -Transcendentalists often had a more optimistic tone to their work than Dark Romanticists, but both factions focused on themes of nature, spirituality and separation from civilization.