Dark Romanticism

Danny Gilham
March 26, 2007
Lit 11 1st period

Dark Romanticism

What is an original sin? Original sin is the Adam and Eve story. When you are sin basically breaking god’s rule. Even though people do it ever day. Sin is something god can forgive only if you really want him to.
How did the Transcendentalism feel about it? Really Transcendentalism felt like what someone do doesn’t change everything. Just because Adam and Eve committed a sin doesn’t mean all of us are sinners. They believed that ones mind is always different in some kind of way.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wanted to be a good man, he isn’t like his great grandfather who had hung nineteen people and two dogs. He felt that everyone sin they could be forgave. But Nathaniel’s grandfather wanted to be an evil man.
Herman Melville
He felt that if all men were like him, if all men were to see the cannibals, then they wouldn’t have ate the men flesh.
Edgar Allen Poe
No matter what his family did bad or good. He wanted to do better then his family. Even though they disowned him, he still believed in himself. Even though today he would be considered crazy, he still wanted to be successful
I am more a transcendentalist. Dark Romantic means that you are evil but at the same time you are trying to be nice towards the world. Transcendentalist is more of a Christian type. I fall into a Transcendentalist because I believe the same, just because Adam and Eve sinned, doesn’t mean everyone is sinners.
3. And 4. Hop Frog- I think that the story Hop Frog was good, but I didn’t like his ways, him or his wife Trippetta. The king and his servants were ok, they love to joke around all day and make fun of each other and especially scaring the guess. Hop Frog is a dwarf, he was given the name because he could walk. This story can relate to Dark Romanticism because of the characters. The King and his servants are mean and love to make fun of people. I don’t think a transcendentalist would do that.
With the beliefs of Dark Romanticism Hop Frog was really like a fairy tale. Transcendentalist believed that all humans were pure and good, and that the voice of god comes from people thoughts and intuition.
In this story the dark romantic beliefs were clearly noticeable. Dark Romanticism is basically the opposite of Transcendentalist. They believe that god is really just like one of us, which he is but somehow different.
5. This poem is catchy. It has punch lines that will make you turn your head. The Raven is really a poem about a man (narrator) who’s describing in a different way in which his love passed away. These lines caught me the second time I read them. "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before, But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!"--Merely this and nothing more.
This poem represents a anti-transcendentalist because in the poem the narrator is speaking his mind himself. God is not telling him to do what he’s doing or say what he is saying. His intuition mind makes him speak what he feels.
Interesting Facts and Information on Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allen Poe in 1995 invented a PC (computer) game, jus like making a novel but he put it in a computer game format. It’s a point and click adventure game. It’s basically about this man who murders his wife. It’s like a mystery/adventure.
Dr. E. Snodgrass was the man who found Edgar Allen Poe dead on the streets in Baltimore. He was taken to the Washing College Hospital Saturday night and stayed 1 night where the next morning on Sunday, October 7, 1849 at 5:00am I the morning he couldn’t hold on any more, he passed.