Genre Analysis 1

Brian Ingebretsen

2/22/14

ENGL 1A

Genre Analysis Beginning Assignment

The first text I chose was Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and I chose this particular text because it is full of emotion and depicts a haunting version of nature. This story uses a lot of description which is how the romantic era writers wrote back when the period was in full swing. Without this emotion in the writing, the stories and poems would’ve had no purpose and irrelevant.

For the academic article, I chose the piece entitled “WORDSWORTH and LAKE DISTRICT TOURISM: ROMANTIC RESHAPING OF LANDSCAPE”. The article discusses the influence that the Romantic Era of writing affected the actual natural landscape. This relates to my theme of how many ways nature was depicted in Romantic era writings.

For my image, I chose the Romantic Era painting Wanderer above the Sea Fog and the reason I chose this image is because it literally depicts nature as a grand and beautiful force. The painting depicts success in the form of being on top of the world and looking out at the wondrous scene. This painting, too, goes with my topic because of the way nature is shown.