Romanticism was a nineteenth century literary and artistic movement that placed a premium on imagination, intuition, emotion, nature and individuality. Although the word romanticism leads you to think that these stories would be about love that's exactly what it's not; romantic writers elevated the imagination over reason, intuition over fact, and nature over civilization. Some of the romantics from this time was Washington Irving, Henry Longfellow, William Bryant, James Lowell, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Emerson, and Henry Thoreau. All of these writers, and more, have included the elements of romanticism stated above within their writings. Romanticism shown in the nineteenth century main emphasis was individualism within the writer's work. Individualism …show more content…
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the writers who portrays gothicism within his writing. The Raven, the gothic elements found in this piece of literature were supernatural beings, mysteries, and death. The raven is represented as the supernatural element due to the fact that it speaks. It is in connections to both Heaven and Hell. The narrator asks it if it came from "the Night's Plutonian shore" referring to the underworld. Then he asks if it’s origin is "the distant Aidenn", which is Heaven. The mysterious part of the gothic element was the knocking at the start of the poem with no one behind the door. The death aspect of this poem was the death of Lenore. He cannot get over the fact that she is dead. He tries to get closure by asking the raven if she resides in heaven or not, but the raven only replies with “nevermore”. He asks the bird to leave but it just stays in the same spot. This gothic piece of literature leaves Poe feeling hopelessness and