4. In-depth attention to self, high individualism Individualism or
Libertarianism.
As the Romantic period emphasized on emotions, the position or role of the artist or the poet also gained supremacy. In the earlier times,
the artist was seen as a person who imitated the external world through his art.
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Taking a cue from Rousseau ‗If I‘m not better than other people, at least
I‘m different.‘ there were Romanticists who became unduly preoccupied with themselves and the pursuit of their
idiosyncrasies.
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Romanticism creates its own type of literary artwork. For romantic poets, the disclosure of a sense is a direct result of the
concentration of ―me‖; those are personal observation and creative imagination coupled with the inner experience that lived intensely.
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Moreover, Romanticism offers courage and desire to be free, giving the maximum impression of Neoclassical ideal, freedom of
experiments on rules of composition, genre, and manners. Romanticism also offers a conception of the artist as inspired creator
above the statement artist as a creator or technical expert.
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5. Strong imagination, full of fantasy Imagination.
Imagination has been elevated to the highest position of the part of the mind. This is different from the traditional arguments for good
reason. Romanticism tends to establish and present the imagination as a
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Deepa Kartha 2009, loc. cit.
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Russell Noyes 1967, op. cit., p.xxv-xxvi
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Jan van Luxemburg, et.al. 1989, op. cit., p.170.
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Lilia Melani 2009, loc. cit.
shaping or creative power of the human subject. Imagination is dynamic, active, and has many functions. Imagination is the main thing
in making all kinds of art. On a broader scale, the imagination is also a part of helping people to establish the fact, for as Wordsworth
suggested not only accept raw world around us, but to take part in building it.
Because Romantic had departed from ―me‖ and the mental state of ―me‖, their literary concepts strongly emphasize two aspects: feelings
and imagination.
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By combining mind and feeling Coleridge explain the paradoxical phrase, intellectual intuition, imagination is praised
as the unifying, enabling humans to reconcile differences and opponents in the world. Reconciliation of the opposite things is the
central idea to Romanticism.
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6. Romantic Melancholy.
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