Walt Whitman's Relation to the Romantic Period

The era of romanticism has brought many trends from the concept of individualism to classical separation of rebellion, idealistic view, and finally to a strong religious foundation. Most writers of the Romantic era follow the pantotism that "God is everything and everything is a god ... the world is the same as God, or is self-expression of their own properties to some extent" I will. 74). The concept of pantisism is that everything in the world is united. In the works of the Romantic era, the expression of nature and human beings may be the same entity, not a single entity.

The romantic era is a hotbed of some of the most outstanding writers in America. Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Ralph Waldo Emerson are just a few of the golden era names of American literature. Wonderful, these men still lack a lot of creativity. There is little change in themes and structures associated with them. Writers were born in the era of romanticism but he dared to expand the possibilities offered by literature of the 19th century. Nathaniel Hawthorne incorporates romanticism through works such as "Young Goodman Brown", "Minister's Black Bale", "Birthmark".

This era is also known as the Romantic era and the transcendental era of the United States and is widely regarded as America's greatest literature. Major writers include Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville. Emerson, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller were praised for forming literature and ideals of many later writers. Other major contributions include Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poetry and short stories from Melville, Pau, Hawthorn and Harriet Beecher Stow. In addition, this era is the starting point for American literary criticism led by Poe, James Russell Lowell and William Gilmore Sims. Brought the first African-American novel in 1853 and 1859: Clotel and Our Nig

As in their young countries, American romanticists try to break the old world tradition. This period is characterized by the rule of destruction and the experimental form. The above mentioned Walt Whitman provides a good example of how to write his poem Whitman writes that it is a free poem and it is a kind of sloppy poem that is not a form or a likes. The same structure as rice to shape it. It may not be such a feeling now, but it was pretty radical at that time. Likewise, Melville's Moby Dick also ignores the traditional classification. This is a novel, but part of it is like a whaling manual. There is also a long-term philosophical thinking Like Mr. Whitman, Melville tests the shape boundary