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Essay / Research Paper Abstract
As William Wordsworth defined romanticism, it
included three aspects: culture, nature and memory. This 5 page paper
argues that f these elements are present in the short story, The Bear,
by William Faulkner. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_KTfkbear.rtf
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/aftersale.htm properly! William Wordsworth, in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads, developed a theory of poetics that came to define the
characteristics of the Romantic era. The theory combined essential and general metaphoric features which could then be used both to convey a collective meaning and to appear as the
essence of meaning. Wordsworth believed that nature played a key role in spiritual revitalization and stressed the role of memory in capturing the experiences of childhood. The three
points of romanticism are thusly defines as culture, nature and memory. In the short story, The Bear, Faulkner includes all of these three points. The elements of the
Romantic era included language that reflected the language used by man - that is, the language should be understood by the common reader and not be infused with literary embellishments.
The poem or story should be situated in time and it should be referenced upon the life cycle - childhood in particular. Nature was a spiritual component of
romantic writings in that the imagination should be grounded in nature as another referenced point. Faulkner viewed the idea of community from a transcendental perspective. In practical
terms, the trancendentalist is occupied with the natural over the synthetic. He uses vivid images in his explanation of what nature meant to the hunters who traveled into the
wilderness in search of game. The hunters lived in a world "of corncribs rifled, of shoats and grown pigs and even calves carried bodily into the woods and devoured,
of traps and deadfalls overthrown and dogs mangled and slain, and shotgun and even rifle charges delivered at point-blank range and with no more effect than so many peas blown
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