American Romanticism Research Paper

American Romanticism America witnessed her first romantic movement in the 19th century. This idea was mainly brought from the European writers though the American identity was still in work for progress. The definition of Romanticism may differ from one perspective to another but it is commonly known as a literal, artistic and intellectual movement that began in Europe then moved and spread in America. Many aspects characterized this movement such as: nature, imagination, mystery, individuality, darkness, idealism, adventure, intuition and isolation. Some of these aspects are well represented in the two short stories "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe, and “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving. For a better understanding, …show more content…
Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers…] while “Isolation” was a source of calm and self-relief when Rip was isolating himself in the mountains [ Poor Rip was at last reduced almost to despair; and his only alternative, to escape from the labor of the farm and the clamor of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. Here he would sometimes seat himself at the foot of a tree, and share the contents of his wallet with Wolf, with whom he sympathized as a fellow-sufferer in …show more content…
It is definitely an adventure for a simple natured man. Both “Mystery” and “Darkness” took place in the story “The Fall of the House of Usher” in his speech […What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered…] and in […Dark draperies hung upon the walls. The general furniture was profuse, comfortless, antique, and tattered…] in addition to the description that was very helpful in showing and clarifying the Gothicism in this story. Without forgotten the slight appearance of the “Supernatural” theme when he saw Roderick for the first time since their childhood and he compared him to a Grotesque when he said [… A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid, and luminous beyond comparison; lips somewhat thin and very pallid but of a surpassingly beautiful curve; a nose of a delicate Hebrew model, but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations; a finely moulded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy; hair of a more than web-like softness and tenuity;—these features, with an inordinate expansion above the regions of the temple, made up altogether a

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