Quote: " Symbolism and myth were given great prominence in the Romantic conception of art. In the Romantic view, symbols were the human aesthetic correlatives of nature's emblematic language. They were valued too because they could simultaneously suggest many things, and were thus thought superior to the one-to-one communications of allegory. Partly, it may have been the desire to express the "inexpressible"--the infinite--through the available resources of language that led to symbol at one level and myth (as symbolic narrative) at another. "
Paraphrase: Symbolism and myth were also important during the American Romanticism Movement. The authors felt that symbols could stimulate lots of things.
Citation: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html
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