Romanticism Free Response

To what extent did Romanticism challenge Enlightenment views of human beings and the natural world and how did this challenge illustrate changes between the enlightenment and romantic views of the relationship between God and the individual?

The Romantic age came with many changes. They questioned God's authority, and how He affected humans and what they did. Romanticism changed the way people thought. It made people question the affect that God had over them, and what the reason for their talent and ideas were. Romanticism caused people to think outside the box and to become more in sync with the natural world and their emotions instead of keeping God as their reason for everything they did that was great.

Ludwig van Beethoven is an example of how everything changed and became more natural and emotional. He was a fantastic musician/music writer who's music is still listened to to this very day. Beethoven created a more emotional effect in his music. Instead of being very formal and straightforward, his music was more up and down and played with one's feelings. His music was not made for a religious figure or because he felt that God wanted him to. Beethoven wrote his music out of feelings and the want to create it.

Percy Shelley is another great example of the affect that Romanticism had on people. Shelley was a poet who poured emotion into his poetry. They were so dramatic, but created an affect like the poet was talking about them instead of himself. He married a woman and had a child with her. However, this marriage did not last because he fell in love with another and left his wife and child abandoned. Percy was the first to do what he really felt. He went where is emotions took him, even if it meant abandoning those who were his family. His poetry showed this passion he felt. Another like him was John Keats. Keats had lost his family at a fairly young age and knew how it felt to grieve. He went from being a surgeon who amputated extremities on people with no anesthetic, to a heartfelt poet. His poetry made him so much more interesting and gave him the affect of a troubled soul that was greatly alluring to those in his time because there were very few who were like this.

Edgar Allen Poe was a fantastic poet. His poetry created such a dark picture that dug deep into one's soul. He poured out his emotions that gave his poetry such imagistic qualities. All over the world people still read his poetry. This is because they can deeply connect to it and take personal experiences that can be related to his poetry.

Writers, poets, musicians, and artists of the Romantic age all created a great new era. They gave one reason to do things without a religious reason. The Romantics caused a great change that enveloped the entire world. They did not need a religious reason to create any kind of art, they did it because they wanted to and poured their emotion out into their work. This is why Romanticism greatly changed the relationship between human beings and the natural world along with their inner emotions and caused them to come out and be shown to the world through many different ways.