The examples of
romantic elements are below:
-Feelings, emotions, and imagination take priority over
logic and facts,
-Belief in children's innocence and wisdom; youth as a
golden age,
-Nature as beauty and truth,
-Heroic individualism,
-Nostalgia for the past,
-Desire or will as personal motivation,
-Idealized or abstract settings,
-The gothic as nightmare world of intense emotions.
P.B Shelly
Like the other Romantic poets, Shelley too was an ardent
lover of Nature. Like Wordsworth, Shelley conceives of Nature as one spirit,
the Supreme Power working through all things. In his treatment of nature, he
describes the things in nature as they are and never colors it. It is true, he
gives them human life through his personifications. He says that love is not
bound to one object at a time and when love fades away, we need not be
faithful. He adds that love conquers death and beauty, and even goodness and
truth originate in it:
“True love differs in this from gold and clay
That to divide is not to take away”
Shelley calls poetry “the expression of Imagination,”
because in it diverse things are brought together in harmony instead of being
separated through analysis. Shelley made a bold expedition into the unknown and
he felt reasons should be related to the imagination.
Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb, an English writer is best known for his
essays. Although he wrote poems and
books, he is mainly known as an essayist. His essays are allusive, which is
peculiar to romantic essays. Lamb, rambles throughout the narratives with ease
and is able to return to the point. He often does it in his writings.
His essays that has a Romantic element is "Dream
Children: A Reverie," which is a discursive, dreamlike essay in which Lamb
fancifully imagines telling his children, which he does not have, about his
childhood. His essay involves his imagining that he had married a past
girlfriend, and so the essays feature an element of the imagination that is
Romantic in nature. He does not write to prove a point or to use reason;
instead, his essays meander in a way that is dreamlike. Like the work of
Romantic poets, Lamb's essay is about the lost dreams and innocence of
childhood.
To conclude we can see that Lambs essays are very personal.
They possess humour and pathos like most romantic works of literature. Lamb is
also praised for his allusive quality which is noted by many literary critics.
Jane Austin
Jane Austen was a major English novelist, whose brilliantly
witty, elegantly structured satirical fiction marks the transition in English
literature from 18th century neo-classicism to 19th century romanticism.
In Pride and Prejudice, maybe many people regard the main
role Elizabeth as only a perfect woman beyond romance: she is sensible, lovely,
humorous: “proud and independent anything but not romantic.” However,
romanticism does exist under her outer sensibility. We can see in the novel,
Elizabeth is sensible and values true love as something noble and never trade
self-esteem and money with love. She makes all her choices under her
independence that gives her more courage to gain great happiness—perfect love
and marriage in the manner of romanticism but realism.
Jane Austen makes the experience of life colorful and
meaningful in a sensible and romantic way. In this novel, Jane Austen uses her
unique writing style, skillful technique to describe a natural and quiet
village life to create a group of funny characters and tell an interesting
story about love. All of this deeply reflects her outer sensibility and
intelligence and inner humor and romanticism. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane
Austen taunts those who get married for sake of money and disagrees this
insensible marriage on ardor passion, meanwhile; she strengthens that the ideal
marriage should contain true love.
