William Cullen Bryant's 'To A Waterfowl'

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1. The Romantic world view is not necessarily have to do with a boy and girl. There is no characteristics to affection of love. Romanticism is more based on ideas, nature, beauty, and fantasy. Such as “To a Waterfowl,” by William Cullen Bryant, “Thou’rt gone, the abyss of heaven hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart,” (Bryant) Addressing a romantic idea having nothing related to a boy or a girl or intercourse. Actually, the Romantic period happens in the eighteen hundreds and foreshadows the period of Realism which is in the eighteen-fifties and it all happened in our country.
2. The Realistic world view is totally different from Romantic ideas. After we finished with all the sweet, bizarre and beautiful ideas to live happily ever …show more content…
“Bartleby the Scrivener,” and the five other poems form question five, have the connection in the mischief men. What Hawthorne and Melville have in common is the description of a man that is alone in the world and has lost everything even faith. The story is that Bartley is employed at first he was a hard worker put a great effort and then surprised his boss by replying, “I would prefer not to.” (Melville) And then, started to have a habit to not take orders and refuses to work anymore the lawyer feels bad for Bartleby. Just as the wife’s feel insecure about their husbands and their weird and threating obsessions. After, having stopped working Bartley lost it all, the lawyer found out that he was living in his office because he had nowhere else to go and no family or friends. So much alike as what happened to Mr. Hooper when he lost his wife, he was rejected by society with nowhere to go. All the men are going through a stuff situation that they scare their love ones. “What I saw that morning persuaded me that the scrivener was the victim of innate and incurable disorder. I might five alms to his body; but hid body did not pain him; it was his soul that suffered, and his soul I could not reach,” (Melville) later on Bartleby committed suicide and the rest of the men faced similar
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