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  Romanticism these days is loosly based on imaginistic ideas involving nature and

everything surrounding it. People who do not know the concept of romanticism today believe

that romanticism has to do with kisses under the moonlight or bringing flowers to their date.

This is just simply not true. Romanticism today still has the ideas from the old definition of

romanticism. It still consists mostly of things having to do with nature. Just in a different sense,

more relating to the imagination and more unrealistic things.

Romanticism used to have such a different meaning than it does today. It used to be

more "concentrating on emotion, nature, and the expression of nothing" (Romantic Vs

Rationalist). These poet used thier work to "shed light on people's universal motives"

(Romantic Vs. Rationalist). While there are these differences between the old definition

of romanticism and the more modern definition of romanticism, they still relate to

eachother and continue to prosper in the sense of art.

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