Romanticism

Romanticism caused such a schism

     Flaunting the faces of classicism

Their writers and artists and genius musicians

     unveiled the dark world of witch and magician

All works had such ardor – freedom at last.

     Their rebelliousness left all the “righteous” aghast!

So long had the heart been imprisoned, confined,

     it exploded, rebelled at all the refined

The Byrons, the Shelleys, the Keats in full bloom

    Spoke volumes on nature, on death and of doom

Yet music so soaring of Chopin and Liszt

     Were notes we believe that the angels had kissed

The daring of Delacroix, Goya unpiled

      revealed their art, making critics go wild

Never before had expression been brought – so

  that’s what they thought

  …then along came Picasso!