How Does Romantic Conformity?
The European Romantic movement focused on creativity and originality with an emphasis on nature. This was far from the previous Enlightenment movement. That drilled in a logical answer for every possible phenomena. Romantics wanted to view the world as a miracle and appreciate it’s beauty. They didn’t feel the need to over rationalize everything. The spokesman of the Romantic movement was the artist. Artist used painting, theatre, poetry and such as methods to spread this new ideology. One piece of poetry that captures the Romantic period perfectly is William Blake’s “The Tyger”. The Tyger is a romantic poem because it has a focus on the supernatural, believes conformity is evil and expresses all of this with the use of nature. The Tyger focuses on the supernatural. Romantic poets often talk about the supernatural or a creator in their poetry. Romantics are very spiritual people; they just do not believe in organized religion. This is because they believe that organized religion hinders people's ability to have a one to one relationship with god and nature. In Blake's The Tyger the creator of the tyger is constantly speculated upon. This can be seen when Blake writes, “ What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? [....] In what
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To a romantic conformity is one of the worst things a person can do. Romantics would like all people to have original and creative ideas. They believe that traditional things like religion, school and work take away the adventurous explorer that everybody was when they were young. This becomes clear when blake writes, “Did he who make the lamb make thee?”(Blake 130). In Blake's poem “The Lamb” the lamb represents an innocence, untouched, adventurous child made by god. Later in the poem it’s shown that the devil created tyger. Therefore, the tyger represent the the social pressure that prey on the lamb taking it’s innocence and adventurous spirit
To a romantic conformity is one of the worst things a person can do. Romantics would like all people to have original and creative ideas. They believe that traditional things like religion, school and work take away the adventurous explorer that everybody was when they were young. This becomes clear when blake writes, “Did he who make the lamb make thee?”(Blake 130). In Blake's poem “The Lamb” the lamb represents an innocence, untouched, adventurous child made by god. Later in the poem it’s shown that the devil created tyger. Therefore, the tyger represent the the social pressure that prey on the lamb taking it’s innocence and adventurous spirit