Romanticism and Death

As shown in the quote above, people couldn’t stand watching their loved ones pass. Keats expresses devastation when he sees that his beloved is passing, showing a whole new view on the definition of Death then we have seen so far. The Victorian Era was more similar to the Romantic, but they mourned a lot more about the passing of their loved ones. The way the people in this Era viewed death is more of what we see in today’s society. When someone passed, in order to honor them, the people would mourn. Everyone, even children were aware of what was going on when a person passed.

Death was the only thing people knew would definitely append to them, so they taught their children that as well. A piece called Richard Core by Edwin Arlington Robinson shows that everyone is destined to die whether they are rich or poor. A man named “Richard” is viewed as a “king” because of all hismoney. The townspeople all envied him, but in the end found out he killed himself because he wasn’t “happy’. The Victorian Era was one in which brought death to a reality. They knew it existed and that it would happen to everybody so they decided it was best to honor those that passed by mourning over them.