Henry David Thoreau and Romanticism

Romanticism is the influence of the historical concept of the Enlightenment focusing on logic and order. In the era of Romanticism, focus is on emotion, imagination and intuition as the main feature of writing. The majority of literature at the time was sentimental to its contents and was written beyond reality. Romanticism ignores civilization, but ordinary people, individualism, and most importantly cherish nature. In this article we will explore how Romanticism sees the concept of nature and how Henry David Richard's book Walden proposes it.

Romanticism in American literature brought us some of the world's greatest writers. All writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau all wrote in a romantic era. Otherwise, there are no works such as "Moby Dick", "Citizen Government Resistance", "American Scholar", "Red Letter", and Edgar Allan Poe's most famous "Crow". "Annabelle" and other stories. The romantic exercise began in Europe and entered the United States in the late 1820s. Its purpose is to object to enlightenment

In the first half of the nineteenth century, like the Europeans in America, romantic movements dominated. Romanticism emphasizes imagination, individualism, nationalism. Nathaniel Hawthorne accused New England Puritan's anti-individualism with "red." Herman Melville 's "Moby Dick" not only recognizes the power of individualism, but also explores its depth, and the bad focus of Edgar Allan Poe also reflects the dark urge of German romanticism. Transcendental movement is a romantic exercise of the 19th century. Two literary champions are Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Emerson's poetry and Thoreau's "Walden" gave the anti-modernity of the "return to nature" evident to transcendence, but their optimism is that modern view that history is a linear path to progress Expressed.