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He accomplishes similar sentiments in "The Stars are Mansions Built by Nature's Hands," where the vivid details pull the reader into the poem and you feel at one with nature.
John Constable showed the same type of attention to detail to gather the appreciation for nature and its beauty. In the "Hay Wain" painting, Constable gives a stark detail of what the area really looked like and instilled great detail in the river and landscape as well as the detail of the cottage. Turner's paintings reflected upon nature from a sometimes more destructive motif and as having awesome power. This is shown in two of his painting: The Slave-ship and Dawn after the Wreck. Both painters show their reverence to nature and the beauty and power associated with it.
Percy Shelley wrote more dismal poems involving death in a majority of them but at the same time he details the scenery around the event in vivid details. One example of this can be seen in the poem, "A Widow Bird Sat Mourning for Her Love." Shelley was a revolutionary and the death of two sons may have contributed to his stark reality with death.
Most of the artists of this period dealt with the use of feeling and emotions in their work. They wanted to express the meaning of life through nature, passion, and emotions. They sought to inspire people through vivid details and strong suggestive images. They sought to change the public's image of the world of life as centered and controlled to the understanding of one's inner self and the relationship between nature and man.
The reality of nature was the inspiration for much of the 19th Century and the nature images in paintings, vivid detailing nature in poems, and in other forms of art to show that nature was the guiding force for the human race. Nature expressed the emotions or the consciousness of the artist with the landscape or the world as seen through his eyes and the way he wanted others to view life. The artists wanted the people to see life in a way different than...
Romantics like Wordsworth and Shelley sought to put the people back in touch with nature and the beauty it held through their poetry while Constable and Turner painted nature in a way tom inspire and awe the viewer into appreciating the very essence of nature. Many artists during this time correlated the presence of a Higher Power or God with the power of nature.
This was a time of inner reflection on the person and the stripping away of reason and restraint previously shown by society. Society was changing during this period with the French and Russian Revolutions. People desired to enjoy life and liberty instead of having to answer to oppression and injustice. The Romantics sought freedom through the institution of nature and individualism. The Romantics paved a way for the advent of romantic as we know it now.
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