key words of the Romantic age

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key words of the Romantic age

sublime

natural phenomena: mountains, waterfalls, storms

delightful terror: both attraction and fear

viewer overwhelmed

poetry

Sottoargomento

simple language

emotive response

nature

knowledge

menacing, destructive force

welcoming, mother nature

divine force

fascination of the past

ruins

gothic

intuition

rather passive than active

ability of understanding things instinctively

imagination

secondary imagination:voluntary creating force

primary imagination: genuine ability

imagination vs. reason

creative force

role of the poet/child

seer

prophet

guide

childhood

perception free of social

child innocent next to God