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Romanticism comes from the movement originating in Europe in the late 18th century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individuals expression of emotion and imagination. Romantic quality or spirit in thought convention. The poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud” by William Wordsworth and the “Wanderer above the sea of fog”. By Caspar David Friedrich have different romantic characteristics. “I wandered lonely as a cloud” by Williams Wordsworth has many different characteristics. For example in line 1 he uses “strong senses, emotions, and feelings.” The quote he uses in the poem can relate to this characteristic “I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o’er vales and hills when all at once I saw a crowd” Wordsworth describes the scene as he wanders "as lonely as a cloud". He compares himself to a solitary cloud that is floating over the valleys and the hills and then he sees a "crowd" of golden daffodils which are under the trees and beside a lake and are "fluttering and dancing in the breeze". His choice of words is soft. He is admiring the beauty around him and capturing a beautiful snatched moment in time that nature has presented to him. It is as if the daffodils have come alive just for him and they have an almost human like quality in the way they are behaving. Another characteristics Williams Wordsworth uses is “awe of nature” which means an emotion comparable to wonder but less joyous. In the last line of the poem he says “For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude and then my heart with pleasure fills and dances with the daffodils. He describes how that scene has affected him because whenever he is indoors in his home and on his own "in the bliss of solitude" the memory of those flowers fills him with pleasure and it is as if his heart "dances with the daffodils”. the use of words like "bliss “show his happiness each time the memory of those flowers and the way they danced that day comes back to him. The quotes can relate to romanticism because he uses words that can describe romanticism and the way he express himself in the poem.

In “Wandered above the sea of fog” by Caspar David Friedrich illustrates a painting that includes romanticism style. The fact that the man is in the center of the painting, in addition, indicates that he is on guard of domination. Nevertheless, taking a cane, to perhaps facilitate the ascent to him, aims at certain weakness. The man is alone. Everything indicates that there is no another human presence. One perceives in the individual isolation and solitude. The man would symbolize, in short, to the man who conceives his earth life the mountain to that rocky mass in first plane corresponds like a prelude to the eternal. The position of the man, with a leg in front of another one, would indicate that he dominates the life of this world and watches at further on with