what do you mean by romanticism. How did it created a particular form of nationalist satament
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Romanticism referred to a cultural movement which sought to develop a particular form of national sentiment. They focussed on emotions, intuition and mystical feelings. Their effort was to create a sense of a shared collective heritage, a common cultural past as the basis of a nation.
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Culture played a vital role in creating a idea of nation, art and poetry, stories and music helped to express and arouse nationalist feelings. Romantic artists and poets put their efforts to create a sense of shared collective heritage.
A cultural movement which sought to develop a particular form of nationalist sentiment. Romantic artists and poets genrally criticised the glorification of reason and science, focussed instead on emotion, intuition and mystical feelings. Their effort was to create a sense of a shared collective heritage, a common cultural oast, as the basis of a nation.
i) It was through folk songs, folk poetry and folk dances that the true spirit of the nation (Volkgeist) was popularised. Vernacular languages became one of the important reasons as folklores and folk songs promoted the spirit of nationalism.
ii) German philospher Johann Gotfried Herder stated that true German culture was to be discovered among the common people ( Das Volk ) because they have still kept alive their traditional culture.
iii) French painter Delacroix depicted an incident through his painting, in which 2000 Greeks were rumoured to have been killed ny Turks. This was made to arouse sympathy for Greeks in the viewer.
iv) Karol Kurpinski celebrated national struggle through his operas and music, turning folk dances like Mazurka and Polonaise into nationalist symbols.
v) Language played a very important role in developing sentiments. Though regional languages brought some difficulties in the national unification, but a common national language was adopted in many places.
For e.g. : When the armed rebellion of 1831 was crushed and failed in Poland against Russian domination, members of clergy in Poland began using language as a weapon of national resistance. Polish became the language of Church gatherings and all the religious instructions.
vi) Due to spread of romanticism, the independence of Greece from Ottoman Turkey happened. Poets and artists glorified Greece as ' the cradle of European civilisation '. Finally with the Treaty of Constantinople of 1832 , Greece was recognised as an independent nation from the Ottoman Turkey.
vi) In most of the revolution, allegories became a source national resistance. Allegories were made to define a nation and its people. An allegory is the process when an abtract or an idea is defined by a person or a thing. An allegory has a literary meaning as well as a symbolic meaning.
For e.g. : Germania for Germany, Marianne for France , Britannia for Britain, etc.
vii) Many symbols like broken chains for being freed, breastplate with eagle for the symbol of the German empire - strength, red cap for freedom,etc. became popular and were used by artist to depict ideas and to unite people.