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Romanticism C. Hugh Holman and William Harmon define Romanticism as: “a movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that marked the reaction in literature, philosophy, art, religion, and politics from neoclassicism and formal orthodoxy of the preceding period” (“Definitions from A Handbook to Literature”). Professor Glanville from State College of Florida found another way to describe Romanticism: it “focused on novelty of experience, extreme emotional highs and lows, and the glorification of nature. Romantic writers and characters view the world around them through the lens of emotion and subjectivity” (“Literary Movement Lecture – Romanticism”). There are many ways to describe and define Romanticism, but when it comes to Canadian poet Robert W. Service, the second definition is more relatable because of his “glorification of nature.” In Alfred Drake‟s words from California State University, “Romantics consider „nature‟ as the antithesis of inherited and institutionalized practices of though, self-self alienated ways of making sense and assigning values and priorities” (“The Romantic Understanding of Nature”). Nature can overcome the traditional religious aspect of a Romantic‟s life because when there is religion, there is always “doubt,” and nature takes that “doubt” away.
Romanticism There is also a spiritual part of nature in Romanticism, somewhat similar to the Modernist‟s “stream of consciousness,” and the Transcendentalist‟s connection of the human soul to the world‟s soul. The Romantics believe that there is a “natural phenomena…[that] searches for the true self, for one‟s identity” (“The Romantic Understanding of Nature”). Drake believes that “nature makes people know what they truly are, [and] what God wants them to be” (“The Romantic Understanding of Nature”). When a person becomes one with nature, they reach a sort of “spiritual clarity” that becomes therapeutic for a person‟s health and emotions (“The Romantic Understanding of Nature”). Robert W. Service‟s poem, “My Cancer Cure,” involves all of these aspects of nature through Romanticism. His poems after WWII depict a more autobiographical tone and include very serious issues “as poetry, politics, human nature, and religion,” all of which have a Romantic common ground (“Robert W. Service”). According to Carl F. Klinck and W.H. New, Service faced many challenges growing up at his private school from defying his drillmasters, so “he responded warmly to such romantic poets as Lord Alfred Tennyson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Coventry Patmore” (“Robert W(illiam) Service”). That inspiration stayed with Service until he was an old man and helped him to create poems such as “My Cancer Cure,” which shows how faith in nature can cure you of you greatest misfortunes in health.
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