“To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite."
-Novalis
This is not just a tragic love story between two women or solely about sexuality in modern thought. This poem is meant for an audience with an appetite for passion and logic for those seeking a deeper understanding of the Sunset’s death.
The early nineteenth century is what I consider the height of European history. I want this poem to embody the dualism between the Romantic and Neoclassical movements- a time where discovery was rich and alive: with the power of imagination and intuition, the intense feelings of the sublime, and the search for individual rights and liberties in contrast to Classicism’s idealized tradition, order, and reason. Two contrasting movements were coexisting at the same time which further developed human growth and understanding of the natural world.