Romantics a literary movement that started in Europe toward the end of the 18th century promoted the idea of self sufficiency and the soul of the human, it viewed the human body not only as a machine but something greater a physical structure that took hold of the soul or mind. Romantics challenged the views of god and promote the idea that without evidence there was no need to belief in god or religion for that matter. Romantics also apposed to idea of social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. Basically the Romantic movement sought to oppose the belief of god and therefore change the way the majority of the world thought, to create what we contemporary humans are living.
The BBC documentary The Romantics exposed the previous idea of the movement however seen though the eyes of some of the most influential poets at the time. The documentary took the viewer into the world of each and every poet and expressed in detail the poets life, struggles, ideas and thoughts, which in my opinion helped the viewer understand in depth what the Romantic movement was all about.
The BBC documentary also enabled the reader to furthermore view what the movement was all about and emphasize the main ideas of the poets and thinkers. However I disliked the way that the narrator exposed the whole story as if there was some kind of funeral in the idea, maybe a more enthusiastic tone would have helped the viewer understand the topic in a clearer way.
Another interesting topic or idea about the documentary was the poets different personalities (celebrities, doctors, etc) but what all of them had in common was this sad or gloomy look on their face or their relatively similar thoughts about god and death.
As a whole the documentary was very efficient and it managed to give off the idea of the Romantic movement to the audience.
