Romance has been relevant for centuries because everyone has fallen in love before (or just about everyone), and people want to describe their experiences. Everyone has their preferences or perceptions on love, as well, and their own ways of expressing it. Dark romanticism focuses on it in a further light...in a darker manner. Like instead of just roses, you have the thorns on their stems as well. Instead of a happy ending with the guy of your dreams, you have a broken heart.
Some poets in this genre or who have poems in this genre are Edgar Allen Poe (a sad guy), James Russel Lowell (a rich guy), and Robert Browning. Others are Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, both from New England, and with Edgar Allen Poe are the ones that this genre are based off of. This genre opposes the ideas of Transcendentalism, where everything surrounding the human being, including love, is perfect. Instead, the imperfection or devilish nature of human beings is often pointed at through use of references such as Satan, vampires, ghosts, and any other dastardly thing you can think of that's inhuman. This genre attests to destruction and fallible qualities within any human being and relationship, no matter how good the facade.
Some poets in this genre or who have poems in this genre are Edgar Allen Poe (a sad guy), James Russel Lowell (a rich guy), and Robert Browning. Others are Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, both from New England, and with Edgar Allen Poe are the ones that this genre are based off of. This genre opposes the ideas of Transcendentalism, where everything surrounding the human being, including love, is perfect. Instead, the imperfection or devilish nature of human beings is often pointed at through use of references such as Satan, vampires, ghosts, and any other dastardly thing you can think of that's inhuman. This genre attests to destruction and fallible qualities within any human being and relationship, no matter how good the facade.