Romanticism and realism in ancient poetry

1. Romanticism is one of the basic creative methods of literature and art, and together with realism, it constitutes two major trends of thought in literature and art. Romanticism, as a creative method, pays attention to the subjective inner world while reflecting the objective reality, expresses the passionate pursuit of the ideal world, and often uses passionate language, magnificent imagination and exaggerated techniques to create images.

2. Realism is not only a world outlook, but also a set of hypothetical research paradigms containing the development of various realistic theories and viewpoints. Realism is first of all a long-standing philosophical tradition and world outlook. As a world outlook, realism is based on a pessimistic understanding of moral progress and human ability.

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Realistic works have three characteristics:

1, authenticity of details.

There should be real details to reflect social life with historical and concrete life pictures. Realistic works infect people with the truth and concreteness of their images, so they can make readers feel at home.

2. Typical image.

Through typical methods, the real life materials are screened, refined and summarized, thus revealing some essential characteristics of life. It can be said that typicality is the core of realism and a sign different from naturalism. The phenomenon of life is diverse and complicated. Recording life truthfully is just a photographer's skill.

Realism requires the author to select meaningful characters and events from colorful real life, and shape typical characters and typical environments through personalized and universal artistic processing. As Engels said, it is necessary to "truly reproduce the typical characters in the typical environment".

3. Objectivity of specific description.

Through the objective and concrete description of real life, the author naturally reflects the author's ideological tendency and feelings of love and hate from the scenes and plots of his works, rather than saying it himself or through the mouth of the characters. Emile Faguet, a French literary historian, explained: "Realism is an artistic proposition that clearly and calmly observes human events and then describes them clearly and calmly.

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