英美浪漫主义比较_第1页
英美浪漫主义比较_第2页
英美浪漫主义比较_第3页
全文预览已结束

下载本文档

版权说明:本文档由用户提供并上传,收益归属内容提供方,若内容存在侵权,请进行举报或认领

文档简介

1、.英美浪漫主义比较British Romanticism and American Romanticism are different in many ways, including their time span, historical and political background, definition, theme, contents and characteristics. Here I will take I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth and “Scarlet Letter” as two examples

2、to demonstrate the differences between them.Firstly, in terms of their respective definition, English romanticism is generally regarded as a revolt of the English imagination against of the neo-classical reason, while American romanticism is generally considered as a revolt against classicism. Secon

3、dly, the theme is also different with English romanticism focusing on bitterness and melancholy and American romanticism on a strong sense of optimism and a mood of “feeling good” of the whole country. Thirdly, they differ greatly in contents. English romanticism mainly involves four items, namely,

4、spontaneous outflow of power feelings, imagination, nature and escape from society and return to nature. On the other hand, the American romanticism is mainly concerned about the free expressions of emotions and psychic states of the character, the emphasis on imaginative qualities: picturesque, exo

5、tic, sensuous, the supernatural, the wildness and American Puritanism and escape from society and return to nature. Besides, it is more moralizing. Fourthly, they have different characteristics. English romanticism contains many nature images, dream-like atmosphere, music beauty and Gothic elements.

6、 American romanticism includes a lot of Calvinistic view of original sin and is more derivative. For instance, in I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, Wordsworth wrote this beautiful poem of nature after he came across a long belt of gold daffodils tossing & reeling & dancing along the waterside. There is

7、a vivid picture of the daffodils here, mixed with the poets philosophical & somewhat mystical thoughts. The poet thinks that it is a bliss to recollect the beauty of nature in his mind while he is in solitude. This poem is filled with imagination, nature images, dream-like atmosphere, melancholy and

8、 other powerful feelings, which fully exemplify the attributes of English romanticism.In “Scarlet Letter”, Hawthorne explores into “the conflict of the human heart with itself” and deals with the theme of sin and guilt. Through describing Hesters sorrowful fate, it severely criticizes the injustice

9、and cruelty of the Puritan way of life. Therefore, it demonstrates the free expressions of emotions and psychic states of the character, the emphasis on imaginative qualities and American Puritanism. Besides, it is really moralizing in criticizing the injustice and cruelty of the Puritan way of life. In addition, one source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is overreaching intellect, which usually refers to

温馨提示

  • 1. 本站所有资源如无特殊说明,都需要本地电脑安装OFFICE2007和PDF阅读器。图纸软件为CAD,CAXA,PROE,UG,SolidWorks等.压缩文件请下载最新的WinRAR软件解压。
  • 2. 本站的文档不包含任何第三方提供的附件图纸等,如果需要附件,请联系上传者。文件的所有权益归上传用户所有。
  • 3. 本站RAR压缩包中若带图纸,网页内容里面会有图纸预览,若没有图纸预览就没有图纸。
  • 4. 未经权益所有人同意不得将文件中的内容挪作商业或盈利用途。
  • 5. 人人文库网仅提供信息存储空间,仅对用户上传内容的表现方式做保护处理,对用户上传分享的文档内容本身不做任何修改或编辑,并不能对任何下载内容负责。
  • 6. 下载文件中如有侵权或不适当内容,请与我们联系,我们立即纠正。
  • 7. 本站不保证下载资源的准确性、安全性和完整性, 同时也不承担用户因使用这些下载资源对自己和他人造成任何形式的伤害或损失。

评论

0/150

提交评论