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Reflection Paragraph on Findings

While conducting my paragraphs, I found it kind of difficult. It took me a while to put my paragraphs together because it was hard to find the information. After I began to find the information it was more easier for me to do it. "Finding Paragraph #3" was the hardest for me. I decided to do this post before I even finished that one because it was so hard.

Finding Paragraph #2

     Many literary works were publish during the American Romanticism Movement. Moby Dick, written by Herman Melville is about the famous tale of Caotain Ahab and his serach for a white whale. The Scarlett Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne tells the take of Hester and her daughter, Pearl. Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, by Edgar Allan Poe is about a newspaper account of a shipwreck.  Poe is also well known for his short stories, like "A Tell-Tale Heart," and poems like "The Raven." The Last of the Mohicans written by James Fenimore Copper tells you of Hawkeye and the Mohicans against the backdrop of the French and Indian War. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was an antislavaery novel. The novel was published as an outcry against slavery and it instantly became a best seller (Books & Literature Classics). Some of the peoms published during this time period included "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth; "Infant Joy" and "The Tiger" by William Blake; "A Thing of Beauty" by John Keats;  "To the Dandelion," and  "A Fable for Critics" by James Russell Lowell and many more (Poet Seers - Poem of the Day — Poet Seers). The Scarlett Letter and Moby Dick are placed as the greatest novels in the English language.There were many more works of literature published during this time.

Finding Paragraph #1

     During the American Romanticism Movement, there were plenty authors. Some of the romantics that wrotes poems were: William Blake, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Percy B. Shelley, John Keats, Matthew Arnold, and John Clare . The were many more poetic writers that wrote during this time preriod, but these are just a few. Some of the major writers during the American Romanticism Movement included: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), Walt Whitman (1819-1892), Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849), Mary Shelley (1797-1851), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), Herman Melville (1819-1891), William Blake (1757-1827), Lord Byron (1788-1824), John Keats (1795-1821), Willam Bryant (1794-1878), James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), Washington Irving (1783-1859), James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), and John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892). During the Romanticism period.

Quote, Paraphrase, and Citation #5

Quote: "Finally, it should be noted that the revolutionary energy underlying the Romantic Movement affected not just literature, but all of the arts--from music (consider the rise of Romantic opera) to painting, from sculpture to architecture. Its reach was also geographically significant, spreading as it did eastward to Russia, and westward to America. For example, in America, the great landscape painters, particularly those of the "Hudson River School," and the Utopian social colonies that thrived in the 19th century, are manifestations of the Romantic spirit on this side of the Atlantic."

Paraphrase: The Romantic Movement did not only affect literature, but all of the arts from music (such as the rise of Romantic opera) to painting, and from sculpture to architecture. It spread eastward to Russia and westward to America.

Citation: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html

Quote, Paraphrase, and Citation #4

Quote: " Aesthetically, the romantics were also in a state of revolt, primarily against the restraints of classicism and formalism. Form, particularly traditional literary forms, mattered much less than inspiration, enthusiasm, and emotion. Good literature should have heart, not rules, although it is never so simple as that.
There were specifically American components to the romanticism of our authors. They were particularly aware of nature, especially its wild aspects, and were beginning to comprehend that it was being lost as fast as they were appreciating it. The physical frontiers were being conquered in this time of "manifest destiny" and there was little wilderness to explore (and exploit). They turned to artistic, metaphysical, and intellectual frontiers to recapture the ecstasy of exploration and discovery.
Reaction was a major, but not the only, mode for these romantics. They confronted the distinctively American pressures for conformity and definitions of success in terms of money. They spoke out, to some degree, against slavery, promoting the ideals of Jacksonian democracy, that "any man can do anything" (if he's white and educated). They sought to creative a distinctive American literary voice; it was time for the cultural revolution to follow the political one. They felt compelled to declare cultural and individual independence from Europe, even though they had little idea of what form that could take."

Paraphrase: The Romantics were against classicism and formalism. They felt as it traditional literary forms mattered less than inspiration, enthusiasm, and emotion. Reaction was also major to the Romantics. They spoke out against slavery and felt  the need to declare cultural and individual independence from Europe.

Citation: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng372/intro.htm