Quote, Paraphrase, abd Citation #1 (Web)

Quote: "Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as "romantic," although love may occasionally be the subject of Romantic art. Rather, it is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world."

Paraphrase: The Romanticism Era does not mainly consist of love and of being romantic. Even with love is still the subject of Romantic Art. It is actually more of a philosophical movement.

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

Preliminary Links and Descriptions

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html
This site provides a lot of information about my search questions on my topic. This site was created by The English Department of Brooklyn, College.

http://www.online-literature.com/periods/romanticism.php
 This site provides me with inforation on my search questions and answers. This site was created by The Literature Network.

http://www.poetseers.org/the_romantics/
This site provides me with information containing romantic poets. It also provides me with poetic themes and the actual peoms.

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng372/intro.htm
This site was created by Ann Woodlief. It provides me with imformation about American Romanticism and information on the beginning.

Photo, Caption, and Citation #1

URL: http://www.maricopagop.org/tag/american-history/ Edgar Allen Poe is one of many American Romanticism authors. He is one of the most popular and is known for many of his romantic short stories. He was a poet, editor and literary critic.

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Self Reflection

So far I think my research blogs and blogger are coming along pretty decent. Most of the things are working right. The only problems i had was with the Animoto and working it. I also had a problem with getting my post to save, like yesterday. I was doing post #5 and will I was typing it I was saving it, but it didnt save so of course my post from yesterday deleted. I don't really have a problem with finding information about my topic.

What I want to know about my topic

While conducting this research, there are many things I would like to know about my topic. The essential question of my research is "What is American Romanticism?" There are more specific questions following this question such as 1. What authors were considered romantic? 2. What literary novels were published during this time period? 3. What literary poems were published during this time period? 4. How was a literature defined during this time period? 5. What prompted this style of writing?

What I already know about my topic

I do not have much knowledge about the American Romanticism literary age period, but I do know about romance. Romance is about love. It is people falling in love and coming together as one. Romance does not always has to be love. It can just simply be lust.

The story behind my topic choice

Entering high school, I didn't have much to do in my free time. Therefore I decided I would start reading. I went to the library and checked out a few books. The weekend I sat home and read all my books and realized that I enjoyed reading the romance one. So I then later went back to the library and began to check out romance books. I could and would read up to three books a day. Romance really intrested me and it held my attention, wheather it was a book or a movie. So therefore whenever I saw the topic of "American Romanticism" I chose that.