LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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focusing on the problems and working for a solution
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focusing on meditation and yoga
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focusing on beauty, emotion and imagination as a means of escape
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focusing on getting the right people elected to make change
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Detailed explanation-1: -Romantics believed in the natural goodness of humans which is hindered by the urban life of civilization. They believed that the savage is noble, childhood is good and the emotions inspired by both beliefs causes the heart to soar. Romantics believed that knowledge is gained through intuition rather than deduction.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Romantics tended to define and to present the imagination as our ultimate “shaping” or creative power, the approximate human equivalent of the creative powers of nature or even deity. It is dynamic, an active, rather than passive power, with many functions. Imagination is the primary faculty for creating all art.
Detailed explanation-3: -The five I’s of romanticism are imagination, intuition, individuality, idealism, and inspiration. This is the values and lifestyle of a Romantic and was the essence of the time period. Art, music, and literature was inspired by these concepts as they are influencing life today in the modern world as well.
Detailed explanation-4: -Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.