During the time of the Enlightenment, though much new ways of thinking and ideology had come about, much of it was different from that of the Romantic era. The Enlightenment focused much around religion and many of its bouts while Romantics did not focus on religion at all. Romantics concentrated more on the metaphorical relationship between man and nature and the superficial. Artists like American Thomas Cole portrayed a unique relationship between man and nature in his artistic series “The Voyage of Life”. The heavy contrasts between dark and light colors and the depiction in the art of nature and man clearly exemplified the Romantics way of ideology. Konstantin Batyushkov was one of the famous Romantics writers of the era, his work included many references to nature and unlike the writing of the Enlightenment age, did not deal with religion.
Your group did a safe depiction of the Romantic era and comparing it to the Enlightenment period. We feel like you could have elaborated on the "metaphorical realtionship between man and nautre and the superficial." (Did you mean supernatural?) For example, the Romantic era was an artisic representation that revolted against reason and artificed of the 1700s by shifting ideas to a gateway of freedom through imagination. While we agree “heavy contrasts between dark and light colors and the depiction in the art of nature and man... exemplified the Romantics way of ideology,” you should also note what exactly Cole was warning or giving awareness to audiences (which is what we're not sure of and wish to know more about). Regardness, the synthesis was sufficient and answers the prompt.
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