Question

Why did Romantic Artists criticize the glorification of reason and science? How did their views and opinions create a space in the National Feeling and Imagination Of People?

Answer 1

Romantic artists usually criticised the glorification of reason and science because they believed in emotions, intuition and mystical feelings. They tried to create a sense of collective heritage, a common cultural past, as the basis of a nation.

These Romantics used folk songs, folk poetry and folk dances to popularise the true spirit of the nation. The emphasis on vernacular language was also important to take the nationalist message to a large number of people who were mostly illiterate. Karol Kurpinski celebrated the national struggle through his operas and music in Poland. He turned folk dances like polonaise and mazurka into nationalist symbols.Romantics manage to incite nationalist feelings among the people.