A short note on Romanticism

As the word symbolize, the actual meaning is not the same because it has nothing to do with romance or romantic mood but it is really a movement run by intellectual and literary men, mainly in English society and throughout the literary world as well, in every field of life in revolt of their predecessor who were following the norms of Greeks and medievalism which were quite alien to common man. If we specify it in English we come to know that it had started from middle of eighteenth century to end of the nineteenth century and is still alive to our age.

This movement was against monotonous norms prevalent in the society of that time which had always ignored the individual and his problems and given priority to a specific stratum mainly of court or of gods and goddesses in relation to moralize the society as a whole. This thing had no interest of a common man who was less educated and less developed and looked eager to be characterized and discussed somewhere. When things of his interest, through this, came out in every field of life whether it was of literature, of art, of music, of sculpture or of architecture, the whole of the society, mainly comprised of common persons, shook towards it. The most important role was played by the English writers of that time, who with their faculties impressed everyone to the greatest extent. The pioneers of this movement are named as William Wordsworth, ST Coleridge, Shelly, Lord Byron and John Keats. These writers have done unprecedented job in establishing their ideas and affecting the literary circle to its roots.

They did not emphasize the betterment of the society as a whole but elevated the individual’s condition by taking him into another peaceful and imaginary world which was concerned only to him and gave him some relaxation and purged his soul out of routine tensions. The main concerns of this movement were use of imagination to the highest degrees, use of nature only to relate its beauties, the personality of common man and his mental pretensions, freedom from society and mainly no concerns of teaching or moralizing the society.