Title: Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains – Mr Coleman's English Site
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains
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Content: Its tendency to wallow in sorrow, to emphasize longing, and position its narrators as occupying places of lonely alienation occasionally crosses the line into the mawkish and melodramatic. Romantic poetry and novels are characterized by sentimentality and characters in thrall to powerful passions and in search of sublime practices. Exoticism: An additional means, by which the Romantics distanced themselves from the emphatic empiricism of the Enlightenment, remained to imagine equivalent worlds and periods through which to contemplate new ways of approaching relationships, religion, and politics. The Romantics often symbolized alternative modes of living and thoughtful—as well as the authenticity and naturalness of those living in pre-civilized states—with imageries of foreign places. We see Spain, Italy, and particularly the Near East and northern Africa as the setting for a number of poems and novels of the era. Emphasis was placed on the exoticism of these places, often through the use of endlessly repeated typecasts of the presumed decadence and oddness of Africans and Arabs or the apparently calm, colorful, and sensual living of southern Europeans. But the Romantic age was also a pe