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Expository Essay Have you ever thought of the romantic era of literature and what it symbolizes. Well there are many elements that surround Romanticism. It focuses on the individual, feelings and emotions. There are many but I will talk about three of them in this essay. The three are the dark side of man, Picturesque writing and the influence of the past on man. These three elements are in two great stories, and one poem two of which are by Edgar Allen Poe and one from Nathaniel Hathorn, These three great stories of Romantic literature are "The Black Cat", "The Raven" and Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment. In the "The Black Cat" the Picturesque side of Romanticism is shown, were it graphically displayed through writing how the narrator had stabbed the I out of his black cat "I took from my waistcoat pocket a penknife opened it grasped the poor beast by the throat and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!". An