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Imagination is something some writers use to explain the difficulties of life. Life gets complicated at times. We often find our selves lost when we see something real. Sometimes what we need is an imaginary approach to explain something we feel deep within our selves. We need to explain something that society pretends does not exist. We are all looking for something, but most of us have a hard time seeing it because we lack the right use of words or the right experience. Romantic writers try to help us determine what we really want to see from what is shown to us. They try to tell us that what we want goes beyond what others want. We want to jump and reach for clouds but lack the words to do so. We lack the imagination to believe that we can move from point A to point B. Romantic writers will to try to help some of us lost souls see the big picture of life. Romantic writers use image words from mythology and religion to teach us something that we cannot easily see.
Romantic writer Edgar Poe, often wrote about religious images to bring hard concepts into focus. In the “Lenore” poem, Poe talks about religion in way that most people seem to forget when they leave church. Poe writes (n.d), “Should catch the note, as it doth float up from the damned earth (p.2).” Edgar Poe is trying to tell us that God wants man to accept that the earth is damned (Poe, n.d, p.2). It will forever be damned and there is no point in trying to worship it. The note in the poem represents the bible. The bible tells man how to enter heaven. The note’s floating image represents a period of time that someone has before the note disappears (Poe, n.d, p.2). The note will disappear at the end of someone’s life. So, someone has a certain amount of time to learn what is wanted or needed in order to reach a higher level in life. Poe often talked in a religion sense, but one would think he talked in a general sense as well. This image also suggest that a person must learn in order to move to a higher state in life. Not just in money, but also in wisdom and logic. Edgar was trying to tell the reader that knowledge does matter in order to move forward. However, you need different types of knowledge to move forward. Romantics like Edgar Poe would often try to remind people of what is needed to move forward with religious images.
John Keaton, another romantic writer, often wrote in mythological ways to tell the reader something about sight. Keaton writes (2011), “Search, Thea, search, tell me if thou seest, the man, A certain shape or shadow, making way (p.287).” Keaton shows imagery by telling the reader to search. He wants the reader to search for signs of progress (Terada, 2011, p.287). Keaton believes that knowledge comes from trying to see something. He mentions a shadow in his poem to infer that images that one may see at first may not be 100% visible. The image you seek in life will become visible once you keep looking for it. You may have to stick to something that appears to work until you see the entire process come together. Keaton also mentions the word “making way” to remind the reader to look for a way that make things possible (Terada, 2011, p.287). Keaton uses the mythology concept of eyes to remind the reader that what you see is what you know. Keaton believes that the eyes are designed to figure out how to move from one point in space to another in any spot of the universe (Terada, 2011, p.287). The universe represents a plain that you exists in to another plain that you don’t see yet. Keaton is trying to tell readers that everything in life can not be explained through seeing things very clearly all the time (Terada, 2011, p.287). Keaton tries to teach people through mythology that everything in life cannot be explained with a “hammer.” Life is more complicated and more interesting than just building things and showing them off.
The Romantic writer Lord Byron often use imagination from Christian religion to remind people of death. Byron writes (2006), “Of almost everybody born to die (p.337).” Byron is inferring that everybody is born is going to die one day. He says “Born to die” to indicate the purpose of one’s life. You are going to die, so you better find something worth tasting before you die. No matter what you choose to do in life, you will still die. There is nothing that will stop you from leaving this world. Byron also writes (2006), “And if they die, why disturb the sweet and sound sleep that knows no waking (p.338)?” Byron is trying to show us from the Adam and Eve story that life feels better when you don’t know the things that hurt you. Some of us want to know everything and want to be smart. But, Byron teaches us that being smart has its consequences. The more you learn the more you realize you was happier with less knowledge. There are things in this world that you do not need to know. Some apples in life you should never eat no matter what anybody tell you. Money for example does not solve all your problems. Some people might tell you that money will solve all your problems, but you must choose not to listen to this. Money solves your bills, but it doesn’t solve what you want to do with your life. Lord Byron was a Romantic writer that wrote to remind people to enjoy life. Life is not something that is about making it to the end. Life is about enjoying life before it ends.
Romantic writers will often use imagination and religion to explain concepts to people in way that is easy to understand. The simple way is always the best way to explain difficult concepts. People need things to be broken down in life with imagination to feel better about life. You might die and the world might be going to destruction, but that is not what you think about in life because you are free to live. The idea of Romantics is to see the big pictures of life. Do not focus on the things you hate in life. Focus on the things you like life in life. The beliefs you want to agree with. The world is not going to change tomorrow or maybe ever. So, don’t think about this world. Think about your dreams. Your dreams represent you and the world view represents everybody but you. Romantics try to use imagination and religion to show us that you have focus on what you individually want from life. What you individually want is what matters in life. Things change in the world all the time, but what you want before you die will always be there. You need to learn different things in order to reach a higher level of who you are. Learn to move and find peace in your life.
Reference:
Jones, E. D. (2016). 'Never in Bedlam?': Madness and history in Sir Walter Scott's The Heart of Mid-Lothian. Studies In Romanticism, (4), 537.
Kern, S. (2006). When Did the Victorian Period End? Relativity, Sexuality, Narrative. Journal Of Victorian Culture (Edinburgh University Press), 11(2), 326-338.
Poe, E. A. (n.d). Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Hoboken, N.J.: Generic NL Freebook Publisher.
Stevens, H. R. (2006). 'I am more fit to die than people think': Byron on immortality. Christianity And Literature, (3), 333.
Terada, R. (2011). Looking at the stars forever. Studies In Romanticism, (2), 275.
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