What are the three main ideas of romanticism?

Answer 1

Contemplating Nature.

Answer 2

The three main ideas of romanticism are individualism, emotion, and nature. Romanticism emphasized the importance of expressing personal feelings and experiences, celebrating the beauty and power of nature, and valuing the unique qualities of each individual.

Answer 3

1. The Romantic movement is categorised by an increase awareness and recognition of individual subjectivity, especially the imagination as a governing human faculty. This, ultimately, was a direct reaction against the main principle of the Enlightenment movement: rationalism.

2. The importance of nature as a means to feel liberated from the corrupt urban landscape and to allow one to feel close to their natural self was also an important principle.

3. The move, as Abrams seminally comments, from the mimetic function of literature, 'the mirror', to a position whereby writers are using their own imagination and creative thoughts to illuminate, like a 'lamp', the world and people around them.

4. Wordsworth commented, in his preface to Lyrical Ballads (1798), that Romantic writing was written for the common man, the proletariat to view and share in the experience of the world, society and each other.

Answer 4

The major themes romantic poets wrote about were love, romance, and nature. Romantic poets relied on vivid imagery to develop send its message.