Romanticism, a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy. That’s the definition that Google gives you when you look up romanticism. The Romantic period introduced emotion to the stoic Puritans, and brought many great works with it. Incredible authors like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne created works that relied more on emotions than had never been done before in literature. William Cullen Bryant and Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote two works that focused on the infinity of nature. Bryant’s poem speaks about the nature of death. Although this is an experience that most people dread it is a part of the circle of life. The language used by Bryant allowed his audience to feel what he was saying rather analytically analyzing the process. Ralph Waldo Emerson use language to convey that nature is spiritual, It is more than just observations. …show more content…
This is not the whole story. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow depicted the team effort of waking the militia as a one-man job. Therefore Longfellow’s romantic lies depicted the common man as a hero, thus creating a story well remembered. The poem, though not factual, is true in the sense that it portrays the feeling of the event. Future generations understand the emotion of the time in a way that they cannot understand the event from facts in a history