Termed as the ‘Age of Revolution” in reaction to the
‘Age of Enlightenment’. One of the Romantic period’s characteristics was the
expression of strong senses, emotions, and feelings in literary, art and music.
Romantics rejected the idea of deduction – the process of gaining knowledge by
using logic or reason; rather, they believe that it is gained through
intuition, the ‘gut feeling’ – knowing something through natural feeling as
guidance without evidence. In turn, this period emphasizes more on exaggerated
emotions of awe, apprehension, horror and terror which intensifies the
subjective perspective of one’s experiences.
