ONE word that reminds you of Romanticism

or more
any words in fact :p

Nature

Romantic.

Wagner

Wordsworth.

Prometheus

Byron

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Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandis

Romantic.

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not romance then haha.

Gothic.

emotion

or

aestheticism

Verklärung.

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Originally Posted by Alexander III

Prometheus

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That was a really good movie.




Hawthorne.

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Originally Posted by Anton Hermes

Verklärung.

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Never heard of him/her.

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Originally Posted by cacian

Never heard of him/her.

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Used to be in a band with a guy named Tod.

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Originally Posted by Anton Hermes

Used to be in a band with a guy named Tod.

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where did they play?
at the Eisenach Festival ?

Youth

Subjective

Revolution

Blake

Sublime

Spirit.

paintings

Unrealistic

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Originally Posted by Raven Falcon.

Unrealistic

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so the whole romantic movement has no real foundation according to the word unrealistic.

Bayreuth

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Originally Posted by cacian

so the whole romantic movement has no real foundation according to the wordunrealistic ....

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Maybe 'lofty' is a better choice.

What I mean by 'lofty' here is this: Romanticism dreams high up to the sky, resisting any pull down to the earth.

I like romantic poems more than realist poems, as the former are somewhat the descendants of Milton (not sure if what I know is correct).


BUT


Realism rules the world of novels; the best novels are realist novels.

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Originally Posted by stlukesguild

Bayreuth

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damned esoteric bastard.



On a different note, should we up the ante and make it not one, but two words, which when combined form an idea or image, which recall the Romantic movement?

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Originally Posted by Alexander III

damned esoteric bastard.



On a different note, should we up the ante and make it not one, but two words, which when combined form an idea or image, which recall the Romantic movement?

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Yes two to three or more it is fine by me.:smile5:

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Originally Posted by Raven Falcon.

I like romantic poems more than realist poems, as the former are somewhat the descendants of Milton (not sure if what I know is correct).


BUT


Realism rules the world of novels; the best novels are realist novels.

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What about Moby Dick and Don Quixote, arguably one of the best novels ever written and one considered by many to be the greatest of all time, respectively. What about Ulysses? Heck, what about Dickens? I wouldn't exactly call his plots realistic. I guess it just depends on what one considers realistic; I've read very few novels that I'd consider realistic.

Anyways...


Thomas Pynchon

Dickens is realist, isn't it?

stlukesguild: Bayreuth

Alexander III: damned esoteric bastard.

On a different note, should we up the ante and make it not one, but two words, which when combined form an idea or image, which recall the Romantic movement?

Tristan und Isolde :D

What about Lawrence Sterne? Franz Kafka? Hermann Hesse? Italo Calvino? Mikhail Bulgakov? etc... There are many novels... many of the finest that do not fall within the "realist" tradition.

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Originally Posted by kelby_lake

Dickens is realist, isn't it?

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It's in the gate formation of "Realism," but that's mostly because it was the era that came after Romanticism, which was decidedly unrealistic in comparison, with it's fixation on the supernatural. Plus, realism is more a name that came about because of the characters and settings--they were real, often gritty. I still contend the plots of Dickens are often outrageous.

Dickens style is formal realism though, but the pinnacle of the realist tradition in English is Henry James.

Enlightenment

dreams

Coleridge

A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!