Talk about the American Romantic movement in literature (1800-1850), and in particular Dark American Romantic poetry, has to start with a brief exploration of what Romanticism in general is about. It is considered by many literary scholars and historians that literary Romanticism started in modern-day Germany. An archetypal German Romantic is the author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), the writer of the Gothic (Dark Romantic) tragedy of Faust (1808). From there it moved to the British Isles, thereby making its glorious entry into the English-speaking world. The British Romantics penned several masterpieces ranging from poems to novels and defined and epitomized what being a Romantic entails. Arguably, the first British Romantic writer was William Blake (1757-1827), a painter, engraver, printer, and poet. He wrote some of the most awe-inspiring and famous poems in the English language. A modern ...
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley : An Analysis. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Ozymandias. I MET a Traveler from an antique land, Who said, "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read, Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: “My name is OZYMANDIAS, King of Kings. Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside rema...
Who is Lisa Feldman Barrett? Lisa Feldman Barrett is an American psychologist and neuroscientist. She is famous for her theory of constructed emotions , which challenges traditional ideas about how emotions work in the brain. Key Ideas for Beginners (Explained Simply) 1. Emotions are constructed , not automatic Traditional view: Emotions like anger, fear, sadness are built-in, automatic reactions that every human experiences the same way. Barrett’s view: Emotions are not automatic packages inside the brain. The brain creates emotions in the moment , based on: your past experiences your body’s physical state the situation you’re in cultural learning Example: Two people in the same situation may feel different emotions because their brains construct different meanings. 2. The brain is a “prediction machine” Barrett says the brain does not just react—it predicts what will happen next. Your brain constantly uses past experiences to guess what something means. These predictions c...
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