The Romantics perhaps are now the pioneers of what today would be known as the ones who had a great buzz. Apparently, the 19th century was running out of ideas, or at least life was becoming a monotonous routine. There were tensions in the church since writers started to write about Atheism. Moreover, even scientists got to disect human bodies and learn about what many writers would say, the imprisonment of our soul. However, there is a great revolution which affected greatly on writers in the art of the imagination. Even so, this was the casue of the small but powerful opium.
The Opium must be recognized as a very powerful drug which has been used primarily for means of insipiration. Just as one of the Romantic poets, Caldridge, started with the use of opium, he had great trips in which he had visions. In one, he wrote half poem. However, these trips would soon be forgotten. With the thrist for knew ideas and inspiration, the Caldriged became addicted to this drug. It may have been a great source for new ideas, but what had began to live, then it would start destructing itself.
Even so, such deceptive drug brought into the minds of these poets, such as Cadridge, the meaninf of the soul. Before, it was just a body full with bones and organs, but now, the romanitcs would see that benath this burden, there was the soul. It would be a contreversy between scientists and romantics since the soul was nowhere to be seen. The soul could be also referred to the inspiration in which the arts define. The imagination, the part of the brain which caused such revolutionary ideas. The imagination had the ability to create new worlds, change lives.
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