Romantic Poets

    There is an Academic Visit of students of the English Department at 'Victoria Park' on  20-7-2022. The purpose of the visit was to understand Romantic Poets, and Romantic Age better with the natural aspects. 

                Romanticism, attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. Romanticism can be seen as a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality that typified Classicism in general and late 18th-century Neoclassicism in particular. It was also to some extent a reaction against the Enlightenment and against 18th-century rationalism and physical materialism in general. Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.

             Among the characteristic attitudes of Romanticism were the following: a deepened appreciation of the beauties of nature; a general exaltation of emotion over reason and of the senses over intellect; a turning in upon the self and a heightened examination of human personality and its moods and mental potentialities; a preoccupation with the genius, the hero, and the exceptional figure in general and a focus on his or her passions and inner struggles; a new view of the artist as a supremely individual creator, whose creative spirit is more important than strict adherence to formal rules and traditional procedures; an emphasis upon imagination as a gateway to transcendent experience and spiritual truth; an obsessive interest in folk culture, national and ethnic cultural origins, and the medieval era; and a predilection for the exotic, the remote, the mysterious, the weird, the occult, the monstrous, the diseased, and even the satanic.

Influence of Nature on Me, and My Experiences-

               Nature had always a great impact on me. It is said that every daughter and every daughter-in-law of Bhavnagar has plants in their home no matter how big, even a tiny plant will be there, but it is very hard to find a single home without even a tiny plant. Bhavnagar's women are so obsessed with the Jasmin Tree that it is very hard to find a house without Jasmine Tree also. Even in my home also, I have a Jasmin tree and many other plants also. If we talk to the plants and trees they will become more green and fresh.

         The visit to Victoria park was very memorable and joyful also. we played games, ate together and enjoyed mud also! It was an amazing experience as there was rain and thunder also which made our visit adventurous. I took some photographs.

            While returning we ( my group) met an old man who was sitting on a bench. We talked with him and he mentioned his family and also told us that he lost his wife in corona. He was sitting against the river and seeing the sunset, there was some kind of emptiness in his eyes and it can be my overthinking also. I am not a good writer though, but I tried to write something from this experience.