In Eugene Isabey's Boat Ashore at Calas (1851), simple romantic elements comprise the piece: diagonals and smoke. ... In Murat, clouds conveniently converge identically and symmetrically from the shore and the sea to separate Murat upon the Turks from the fantastic background. ... The clouds are clearly separated from the horizons of the seashore and sealine. ... The Romantic technique of stark contrast between light and dark is used to separate Napoleon from the plague stricken. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

For example, all of the movements are written in an ABA form " however, the B sections are sometimes so outrageously contrasting from the A section that it often sounds as though there are two separate pieces written in one movement. ... The overall piece can be seen as imperfect and unfinished when listening to small segments of the song cycle, but when listening to the work as a whole Kreisleriana in itself, it can be understood as one great big work of complexity, romanticism and intricacy. ... Rather than Schumann's Kreisleriana being just a piece of piano music, it now holds m...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A path from romanticism to modernism. The stylistic evolution of Yeats" travels through several stages across his career. Initially as a young poet, Yeats wrote much literary ornate verse. From his first publication in 1885 he"d been much influenced by the pre-Raphaelites. A group of artists a...

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• Grade Level: High School

Hoffman and Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev was act as the basis for comparing romanticism to realism and how each piece represents alienation. ... Bazarov does not blush in the entire book, further separating him from other characters in the book. ...

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