We don't want philosophy, we want materialism!" Tagore, the apparently unworldly romantic, transformed the consciousness of his region through essays, poems and songs, two of which are now the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.
A few years ago she started to play her songs in hole-in-the-wall clubs downtown, impressing growing crowds with her intricate piano work, romantic, stream-of-consciousness lyrics and a voice that could be girlish and delicate one moment and raggedly saucy the next.
We strive for the condition of consciousness that the Romantic poet John Keats called "negative capability," the psychological state of residing in "benign uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason".
Romantic and dreamy, her works call to mind the edges of consciousness.
Kinsella's "Shoeless Joe" inspired "Field of Dreams," a movie whose appeal (however treacly, no matter the Costner) derives from romantic, rather than economic, assumptions about baseball's role in the national consciousness.
In the case of the human species which is burdened with consciousness, evolution has creatively offered the concept of idealization or romantic love in order to afford consummation and inevitably the prolongation of the species.
4. Take out the mud When involved in romantic relationships the swirl of emotions will stir the vast sea of our consciousness.
On the first two tracks, "Conduct" and "Tomorrow," everyone sounds reënergized, if also mellowed: over an ambient wash of guitars, O'Riordan laments a romantic impasse (on the former song) and tweaks young adults for their self-consciousness (on the latter).
"They're keeping the lights on late for the promise of heaving bosoms and consciousness-altering orgasms," a reviewer wrote of "Northern Lights," a 2004 romantic thriller set in the Alaskan bush.
Faust was the figure in which the Romantic age recognized its mind and soul; and the character, in his self-consciousness and crisis of identity, continued to appeal to writers through the centuries.
