Solitude
There are three main types of solitude described in the article: religious, romantic, and modernist.
Religious Solitude
What affected religious solitude:
Calvinism- focusing the soul inward, leaving it to God
Protestantism and Printing- reading the Bible as a text; quest for divine voice became available to all.
Religious solitude describes the individuals who reflect upon their deeds, actions, and goals in life according to their religion. Since religion provides a social and moral background to follow and/or conform to, people engage in religious solitude to meditate on their behavior according solely to what the religion says, rather than what anyone else might consider right or wrong. Religious solitude is particularly important in the moral sense.
Romantic Solitude
Solitude achieved its greatest cultural salience with romantic solitude.
It became both literal and literary. The poet displaced the saint as social seer and cultural model.
It endorses the belief that the self is validated by a congruity of public appearnace and private essence.
In essence, this replaced religious solitude in that rather than reflecting upon the behavior of an individual according to one's religion, romantic solitude encouraged people to view themselves based on romantic literary works, excluding the Bible, which was once the source of self-reflection.
Modernist Solitude
Modernist Solitude is harsher and more adversarial in the sense that the soul, self-enclosed and inaccessible to others, has to be alone.
The figures of this movement were cool towards friendship, and the world was now understood as an assault on the self.
Although people in the other solitude movements only reflected upon one's self in solitude, yet engaged socially with other people to reflect further, modernist solitude encouraged total isolation.
Written By:
Susan Yang
Period 1
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