romanticism is created by the authors feelings where fascism is created by the author scaring "sense" into their readers. Although they're not the same topic its easy to see how romanticism can be mistaken for fascism.
The definition of fascism is "believe that a nation is an organic community that requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong".
Romanticism is defined as "The movement validated strong emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror and terror and awe—especially that which is experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities, both new aesthetic categories".
Romanticism doesn't use force and war to get its point across but it does use some type of horror and terror to state its feelings; they can also be called emotions. Fascists are very emotional but their outlet is not always the most just.
With Fascism I automatically think of Hitler. If Hitler ever wrote any real poetry I wonder what he would have created. I wonder if he would have created his own genre or if he would have followed Romanticism.
* Just for thought, what do you guys think this picture actually is?
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