What are the four elements of romantic literature?

Answer 1

There are no complete and synchronized answer to be found but the following are characteristics compiled from other sources found while searching for this question.

* The characteristics of Romantic poetry from the 1800's are that it emphasizes feeling, intuition and imagination to a point of irrationalization. * Charles Baudelaire quoted that "Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor exact truth, but in a way of feeling." * Others feel that it emphasizes individualism, freedom from rules, spontaneity, solitary life rather then life in society, and the love of beauty and nature. * Victor Hugo's phrase "liberalism in literature," meaning especially the freeing of the artist and writer from restrains and rules and suggesting that phase of individualism marked by the encouragement of revolutionary political ideas * "Perhaps more useful to the student than definitions will be a list of romantic characteristics, though romanticism was not a clearly conceived system. Among the aspects of the romantic movement in England may be listed: sensibility; primitivism; love of nature; sympathetic interest in the past, especially the medieval; mysticism; individualism; romanticism criticism; and a reaction against whatever characterized neoclassicism. Among the specific characteristics embraced by these general attitudes are: the abandonment of the heroic couplet in favor of blank verse, the Sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, and many experimental verse forms; the dropping of the conventional poetic diction in favor of fresher language and bolder figures; the idealization of rural life (Goldsmith); enthusiasm for the wild, irregular, or grotesque in nature and art; unrestrained imagination; enthusiasm for the uncivilized or "natural"; interest in human rights (Burns, Byron); sympathy with animal life (Cowper); sentimental melancholy (Gray); emotional psychology in fiction (Richardson); collection and imitation of popular ballads (Percy, Scott); interest in ancient Celtic and Scandinavian mythology and literature ; renewed interest in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. * Typical literary forms include the lyric, especially the love lyric, the reflective lyric, the nature lyric, and the lyric of morbid melancholy...;the sentimental novel; the metrical romance; the sentimental comedy; the Ballad; the problem novel; the historical novel; the Gothic romance; the sonnet; and the critical essay.... * An interesting schematic explanation calls romanticism the predominance of imagination over reason and formal rules (classicism) and over the sense of fact or the actual (realism),

Answer 2

dark and light imagery; supernatural element(s); truth is found through living, not books (Bible); exotic setting; nature good, civilization bad; imagination or intuition; intense personal feelings

Answer 3

There are six different romantic elements in literature. The first is believing in both the individual and common man. The second is a love and respect for nature. Third is interest in strange and supernatural things. Fourth is interest in things past. The fifth element is looking at the very best in the world. The final element is faith in inner self and imaginative power.

Answer 4

Romantic poetry touches on many themes, but there are a few key themes that we see recurring in poetry of this era. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's topics of nature, simplicity, and feeling (from the Enlightenment) were especially prominent.

Feeling: William Wordsworth emphasized the strength of compassion and feeling and how it is able to bind all of humankind in his Lyrical Ballads (1798). William Blake believed that imagination was capable of awakening human sensibilities.

Nature: Wordsworth considered experiencing nature as a source of true feeling. This is especially seen in his poem "The Ruined Cottage" where he heads it with a quote from Robert Burns saying that nature is his muse and can touch his heart. Samuel Taylor Coleridge also aligned with Wordsworth in taking on a view of nature that rejected the mechanism of eighteenth-century thought.

And, last but not least, is an overarching theme that includes the two things described above: simplicity. Romantic poets emphasized feeling over reason, and pastoral settings over urban settings. They went back to the simplest forms of civilization, denying how mechanical life was at the time.

Those are the three most important themes in romantic poetry. Subject matter depends on these themes. Here are some poems that go along with the themes:

• Feelings: Wordsworth's "Lyrical Ballads", John Keats' "The Flea"
• Art: Coleridge's "On Poesy or Art"
• Self: Wordsworth's "The Prelude", Whitman's "Song of Myself"
• Retelling classic stories: Byron's "Don Juan", Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
• Nature: John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale", Percy Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind"

Answer 5

The romantic elements are reverence for nature, reliance on instinct, nostalgia for the past, value on individualism, expression of strong emotions, development of everyday objects or people as subject matter, and the gothic.

Answer 6

The four elements of Romanticism are

1. Love of nature

2. Importance of emotion/imagination

3. Rejection of classic art forms

4. Rebellion against society

Answer 7

an interest in personal experience and subjective emotions, an interest in everyday things

Answer 8

1-the poet feels lonely.

2-the poet feels sad.

3-the poet loves nature.

4-a lot of figures of speech.

Answer 9

Dealing with something of nature.