Romanticism is letting people use individual feelings and the world around them instead of reasoning and logic. Romanticism also encourages the individual to think about their experience of something instead of believing in what something else told you. But surprisingly, there is a darker side of Romanticism that includes sin, wickedness, and explains what horror comes from doing evil things. The first selection in which I am writing about the short story called Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau. The second selection in which I am writing about is the story called The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe. The third and final selection is the poem called Song of Myself by Walt Whitman. The first selection that I am writing