Romantic Movement in American Literature

Romantic Movement in American Literature

Throughout the time in American history that is reputed to be the romantic period, there were two artists that began to stray from the traditional poetry writing methods; Walt Whitman and Emily Dickson. These sentimental writers built their works in light of the heavenly and human brain science. Sentimentalism helped in the rise of new thoughts and also accelerated the development of positive voices that were useful for the lower classes of the social order.

The Romantic Movement in Literature realized that Western Europe had thrived in the first half of the nineteenth century. This was partially insubordination to the Enlightenment of the past century and its focus was on exploratory and rational thinking. Sentimental writing is portrayed by a highlight of feeling, energy, and nature. Ended by plans of individual and political separation, specialists and educated people tried to break the responsibility of eighteenth century assembly where two creators, such as Whitman and Dickinson, assumed a fundamental part.

Emily Dickinson had the remarkable capability to convey her knowledge of the truth. Unlike her peers, she declined to give unquestionable readings of life's surfaces, and her indecisive, and sometimes contradicting sonnets show this insubordination to opinionated confidence (Duchac, 1993). Dickinson's language is greatly compacted and disjunctive, and her surface characteristics of punctuation, transformed and circular grammar, off-rhyme, and ungrammaticality rely on the acknowledgement of standard meter, rhyme, and stanza structures. In a comparative manner, her non-literal dialect fortifies the nonconventional (Dickinson, 1998). Also, it is not clear if her proposition is to ta...

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... same time increased the advancement of positive voices that were helpful for the underestimated fragment of society. Both the writers have their own themes in their poetry and lyrics, which greatly influenced the world of poetry and the Romantic Movement in literature.

Works Cited

Anderson, C. R. (1960). Emily Dickinson's Poetry. Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Dickinson, E. (1998). The poems of Emily Dickinson. 1 (1998) (Vol. 1). Harvard University Press.

Duchac, J. (1993), The Poems of Emily Dickinson: An Annotated Guide to Commentary in English, This bibliography is organized by poem and is an easy and helpful reference tool for those wanting information on specific poems, 1978-1989. New York: Macmillan.

Whitman, W. (1868). Poems by Walt Whitman. W. M. Rossetti (Ed.). JC Hotten.

Whitman, W. (1996). Poetry and prose (p. 28027). J. Kaplan (Ed.). Library of America.