Jasmine Mapp
02-26-09
1st period
American romanticism
In the story of Rip Van Winkle I found that the part about him falling asleep after he became drunk and not waking up for 20 years was the romantic part of the story.
In the Poem Thanatopis I think that this poem was talking to someone and telling them that you should be afraid to die and that is a natural thing. I also think they are saying that you should be afraid to die .The part when Mother Nature was saying that when you die, you die the same as kings, queens, good people was the romantic part of the story.
The image that stands out for me is the one when the man is ringing the bell. Only because I couldn’t really get it at first but when I got finished reading it became very clear to me. The Ropewalk is a good example of romanticism because this man is working at a ropewalk and he is imagining all the people who use the rope that he makes so that he can keep from being bored.
The reason why the painting is considered romanticism is because many people back then when romanticism first started lived in big cities and they really didn’t know what the country looked like so this painting was a way to imagine what the country looked like.
02-26-09
1st period
American romanticism
In the story of Rip Van Winkle I found that the part about him falling asleep after he became drunk and not waking up for 20 years was the romantic part of the story.
In the Poem Thanatopis I think that this poem was talking to someone and telling them that you should be afraid to die and that is a natural thing. I also think they are saying that you should be afraid to die .The part when Mother Nature was saying that when you die, you die the same as kings, queens, good people was the romantic part of the story.
The image that stands out for me is the one when the man is ringing the bell. Only because I couldn’t really get it at first but when I got finished reading it became very clear to me. The Ropewalk is a good example of romanticism because this man is working at a ropewalk and he is imagining all the people who use the rope that he makes so that he can keep from being bored.
The reason why the painting is considered romanticism is because many people back then when romanticism first started lived in big cities and they really didn’t know what the country looked like so this painting was a way to imagine what the country looked like.
The reason why I picked the image at the top of the assignment is because I have never been to the mountains before so helps me imagine what it looks like. And thats just like romanticism, it makes you imagine things. It makes you look at plain old everyday thing and make them so beautiful.
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