Review and Dark Romanticism 10/24/17

In today's class the objectives were IWBAT: analyze the range of romantic tone and IWBAT: evaluate themes in short stories of American Romanticism, especially as they relate to the American Dream. As we were doing our objectives Mr.Rivers had us do a little review on what the American Dream was and some of the things that were brought up were that it is focused on our "freedoms." To go a little deeper in what freedoms were mention were freedom in religion, jobs, and he literal meaning of freedom of space. Although all those examples were good we mostly focused on how America had literally so much space during that time period. We talked about how with space people were allowed to build up on their own businesses and how that would affect economy. However, we did mention that to be able to get money you need to spend it in order to receive.  Another thing that was brought up about the American Dream was "talent +hard work = an increase in status" which also went along the idea of starting a business.  We did another review on what romantics were and how they were mostly about nature and not about statistics. But one new thing that we learned about Romantics were that there can be a different side of them which we call Dark Romantics. We read a passage and it contained all these negative spiritual things that portrayed a dark romantic. The definition of  dark romanticism is authors who embodied romantic ideals but with negative tones and pessimistic themes. Some examples of authors that are a dark romantic is Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Even though, a romantic and a dark romantic differ they all still believe in absolute. When I say absolute I mean truth, beauty, good, evil etc.
The idea of dark romantic and romantics can be used today when one is reading a book or a poem. That person could identify whether it is coming from the perspective of a romantic or a dark romantic and then you can apply all the characteristics of a romantic to further your knowledge.