Answer:
The ideals in romantisism in the early to mid-nineteenth century were shattered by the Civil War. Americans grew disillusioned by the war. They dissagreed with war that was captured in romantic literature, during and after the war. This disillusionment led writers to take a different perspective in their literature. Literary movements such asnaturalism, realism, and pastoralism were the result. While realism and naturalism have scientific principles, pastoralism tried to recapture romanticism by portraying the simple life. During the post-Civil War time, some writers felt that there was a need to show that romantic literature, as a whole, was not forgotten. Pastoralism depicted the beauty of a simple life, in particular, that of a shepherd’s, in order to recapture romanticism.
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