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    RIMSHA

    FARMAN
    SEC.D
    ASSIGNMENT
    SUMITTED TO:
    MAAM WARDA

    SYMBOLISM
    MOVEMENT

    HOME
    SYMBOLISM MOVEMENT
    Symbolism a loosely composed literary and artistic movement that originated in French
    poets in the late 19th century spread to painting and the theatre and influence the European
    and American literature of the 20th century to different extents.  React against the objectivity
    of rationalism and scientific determinism of naturalism that had come to dominate. Symbolist
    artists wanted to express individual emotional experience through the delicate and suggestive
    use of highly symbolized language. This era emphasized the musical language, developed the
    used of free verse and change the original form of the prose poem. One of the poems of
    Charles Baudelaire extensively affects the symbolists. The symbol was held to stimulate subtle
    association and affinities, primarily between sound, sense and color and between the material
    and virtuous world. This movement was naturally in France and France is the country of this
    movement which is spreading throughout other countries perhaps, with less influence, with
    less definite features .Different country such as Germany, Great Britain, Japan, the United State
    and Turkey influence by this movement. The symbolists sought to signify very personally,
    irrational, and dream-like states of consciousness, relying especially on metaphorical language
    to correspond, or symbolize, the permanent essence of being that, they believed, was
    abstracted from the extent of the five senses.

    The French symbolist movement began with the


    writings of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) and
    Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898). Baudelaire's poems
    focus on themes of death, sex and decay. His prose
    poem Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil, 1857) gave
    rise to him lasting fame, but when first published met
    with disgraces, persecution, and censorship due to
    accusations of curse and irreverence. Maurice
    Maeterlinck (1862-1949), Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891),
    Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) Paul Verlaine (1844-
    1896). Wanting to infuse their tasks with spiritual
    value, these ancestors of Symbolism produced
    imaginary dream worlds occupied with remarkable figures from Greek mythology as fantastical,
    often enormous, creatures. Their subtle imagery defined what would become the most
    pervasive compositions in Symbolist art which is love, fear, sorrow, death, sexual awakening,
    and unrequited intention. The woman became the favoured symbol for the procedure of these
    universal emotions, the symbolists who originated in the 1880s were a different group of artists
    frequently working independently with altering aesthetic purposes. Rather than experiencing a
    single artistic style, they were centralized by a shared discouragement and weariness of the
    decadence they distinguished in modern society. There is a literal meaning to a symbol as well
    as its more genuine meaning .They all gave prominence to the importance of imagination and
    emotions over realism and rationalism, which made them components of the Symbolism
    movement. For instance, in Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Scarlet Letter", Hester Prynne elaborate
    red A that she is forced to wear upon her bosom symbolizes her sin of adultery for all to
    understand so, that she will carry the shame of her transgression. However, after Hester
    humbly grows to the sick regularly many begin to perceive the letter as a symbol of her calling
    giving it the meaning of Able. When the Reverend Dimmesdale sees a meteor one night that
    seems to light the sky with a red A he infers it as the original scarlet letter, signifying his sin of
    adultery. The next day, a sexton told to Dimmesdale and asks if he saw the letter A in the sky
    which we interpret to stand for Angel. So, the same symbol of A means three different things
    such as Able, Adultery, and Angel.

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