2. Maria is reading an essay comparing two poems and has come across a missing word. A love poem by a Classicist will express emotion in a logical and restrained manner, whereas a love poem by a _____ will celebrate the wild, the untamed, and the imaginative. Both poems will likely involve rhyme. Which term best completes the sentence? A. Naturalist B. Romanticist C. Realist D. Modernist
The term which best completes the sentence is the following one:
B. Romanticist
Explanation:
The authors from the Romantic era were rather intense when expressing their feelings. They would idealize the people they fell in love with in such a drastic way that things would often turn out to be disappointing, since their characters, when going further than unrequited love, would find out their beloved ones were not as extraordinary and supreme as they had imagined. Plus, they would allow their characters to let themselves go and enter a state of pure obsession, which would sometimes lead them to find drastic solutions to their problems, as in Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther".
