Thursday, November 17, 2011
Modern Day Romanticism
Both American and British romantics talked about their love of nature, the idea of anti-consumerism, desire to escape from conformity and a love of childhood and innocence. Today, we are constantly bombarded with advertisements to buy products that make us more beautiful and more connected through technology. there is a desire and glamorization of growing up, turning 18 and being an adult. In a culture like this, do you think there are any more true romantics?
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In some ways the culture that Whitman lived in was very similar to the culture that we live in today. Romantics didn't represent the popular ideas of society during their time period, but instead went against the flow of society.So I think that even though our our culutre today seems very "anti-Romantic" there are probably still Romantics in our societyand our culture is more similar to Whitman's than we would expect.
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