ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AGES ERA PERIOD

RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which setting could you not imagine a work of Romantic literature employing?
A
a field of daffodils
B
the “Orient”
C
a graveyard
D
All of the above would be appropriate settings for Romantic literature.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Romantic literature is marked by six primary characteristics: celebration of nature, focus on the individual and spirituality, celebration of isolation and melancholy, interest in the common man, idealization of women, and personification and pathetic fallacy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Conversational poetry was the literary genre most commonly used by Wordsworth and Coleridge, with the latter writing a series of eight poems following the genre structure of conversational verse and examining higher ideas of nature, man, and morality.

Detailed explanation-3: -Revolution, democracy, and republicanism. The Sublime and Transcendence. The power of the imagination, genius, and the source of inspiration. Proto-psychology & extreme mental states. Nature and the Natural.

Detailed explanation-4: -Emotion and passion. The critique of progress. A return to the past. An awe of nature. The idealization of women. The purity of childhood. The search for subjective truth. The celebration of the individual. More items •25-Oct-2021

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