11Chirchik State Pedagogical University Current Issues of Modern Philology and Linguodidactics
Staatliche Pädagogische Universität Chirchik Aktuelle Fragen der modernen Philologie und Linguodidaktik
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ENGLISH ROMANTICISM AND ITS DEVELOPMENT
Rayhona Mansur kizi Ortikboeva
A student at Chirchik State Pedagogical University Scientific advisor: Eldorbek Erkin ugli Khamitov
ABSTRACT
The thesis is devoted to The Age of Revolution, as well as the development of different views, main thoughts, writings are indicated in it. In this documentation, there are a lot of information about events in the Middle Ages, various notions that changed peoples mind along with the differences between The Age of Enlightenment and The Age of Reason. It is recomended as a guidance to The Age of Romanticism.
Keywords: Enlightenment, nature, middle ages, romanticism, transcendentalism, William Blake, Wordsworth.
INTRODUCTION
It would be better to know about romanticism itself. Peter Ackroyd defines Romanticism as " the story of Man's escape from the shackles of commerce and industry to the freedom of nature. In a time when the world was becoming increasingly mechanised, the Romantics sought an intense relationship with the natural world. In so doing, they would revolutionise our perception of life itself'.
Romanticism, wchich is also called The Age of Revolution, began roughly around the time of the start of the French Revolution in 1789, and it finished around 1860. It was a reaction against the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment. To be a romantic is to take the side of nature against industry.
FINDINGS
The Romantics viewed cities as grimy, ugly and souless. In William Blake's poem "Jerusalem", he links the Industrial Revolution to the ultimate evil. The Romantics challenged scientific, sociological outlook on life that was promoted during the Enlightenment. In particular, the Romantics disagreed with the Enlightenment values of progess and rationality , especially progress as defined by technological advancement and urbanisation. The Enlightenment a bit against the Romantics. The Enlightenment was all about reason. In contrast, the Romantics were about passion and emotion. The Enlightenment was about human nature, while the Age of Revolution was about natue itself. The Age of Reason was man overcoming nature, whereas Romantics was about nature beng more important than man. Moreover, Age of Reason were about material possessions, the Romantics were more about spiritual. The Enlightenment was about laboratory observation, while the Romantics were more about intution and insight.
Romanticism is characterized by its emphasis on emotion, the purity of childhood, the glorification of the past and critique of progress, and absolute truth as well a the
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Chirchik State Pedagogical University Current Issues of Modern Philology and Linguodidactics
Staatliche Pädagogische Universität Chirchik Aktuelle Fragen der modernen Philologie und Linguodidaktik
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deification of nature. Wordsworth summed up the importance that the Romantics placed on emotion when he said that poetry began as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" which the poet then "recollects in tranquility".
Caspar David Friedrick, a German painter, also championed the idolizition of emotion when he said the artist feeling is his law the purity of childhood. The importance of a happy and playful childhood was a belief that developed during the Romantic period. William Blake championed the innocence and spititual purity of childhood.
In the 19th century, some working-class parents sold theis sons. These boys, between 4-7 years, would become chimney sweeps which was miserable work. Many of the sweeps became deformed or were killed due to the work.
The cult of the Middle Ages is a significiant theme in Romanticism. Romanticism revived elements of art and literature perceived as authentically medieval in an attempt to escape population growth, early urban sprawl and industriaism.
The Romanticists is on a ceaseless quest for Absolute Truth. As discussed, Romanticism was a movement away from the objective truths of science towards the more subjective truth of art.
The people who lived in the period of that time believed that the materialism and mechanism of society and its institutions had caused Man to become blind to the nature around and within him. Lord Byron encapsulates intense relationship with the natural world in his poem, "There is a pleasure in the pathless wood".
Transcendentalism was a branch of Romanticism. It was a philosephical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in America. Transcendentalists believed in the inherent goodness of both people and nature. They believed that society and its institutions ultimately corrupted the purity of the individual, and had faith that people are at their best whn truly self-reliant and independent.
Henry David Thoreau's book " Life in woods", which was part memoir and part spiritual quest, captures the Transcendalist longing to escape consumerism and materialism and return to nature.
CONCLUSION
The thesis gives a lot of information about The Age of Reason, its major occasions that changed peoples not only life, but also thoughts. It states about main things in the Romanticism period.
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