There is a shift from interest in urban life to nature and self. Writings changed from being impersonal to reflecting raw emotions. Intuition was praised over reason. This era lead to the transcendentalism movement through imagination and feelings being the core value of the writings and lifestyle. It also reflects the need for primitiveness through nature, it is the means of divine revelation. Writing styles include: gothic, medieval past, supernatural, and exotic. This attracted a lot of rebellion and revolution towards human rights, individualism and freedom from oppression.
There is a increase in the belief of the divinity of the individual causing the work to be personal, telling the story of the individual. There was a rise in poetry and appreciation of the poet because the poet spoke for nature and the common man. Since it was a rejection of the strict confines of classicism, the poetry strayed from the traditional structure. The romantic poets created their own structures or did not consider structure at all.
There is a increase in the belief of the divinity of the individual causing the work to be personal, telling the story of the individual. There was a rise in poetry and appreciation of the poet because the poet spoke for nature and the common man. Since it was a rejection of the strict confines of classicism, the poetry strayed from the traditional structure. The romantic poets created their own structures or did not consider structure at all.