Symbolism

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 * Definition:: **
 * 1.** The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships.
 * 2.** A system of symbols or representations.
 * 3.** A symbolic meaning or representation.
 * 4.** Revelation or suggestion of intangible conditions or truths by artistic invention.
 * 5.** **Symbolism** The movement, theory, or practice of the late 19th-century Symbolists.
 * 6.** (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Movements) //(often capital)// a late 19th-century movement in art that sought to express mystical or abstract ideas through the symbolic use of images.
 * 7.** (Christian Religious Writings / Theology) //Theol// any symbolist interpretation of the Eucharist.*




 * Origin:: **

-The principles of a literary movement originated during the latter part of the 19th century in France and highly influential in literature written in English, characterized especially by an emphasis upon the associative character of verbal, often private, symbols and the use of synesthetic devices to suggest color and music. — **Symbolist**

-Symbolism came out as a reaction against naturalism and realism.

See also::
 * [images] [representation] [synthetism]**


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 * Examples ** from text:

1) "A nd now again the music swells, and the dreams live, and writhe to and fro more merrily than ever, __taking hue from the many-tinted windows__ through which stream the rays from the tripods. But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away; and there flows a ruddier light through the __blood-colored panes__; and the __blackness__of the sable drapery appals; and to him whose foot falls upon the sable carpet, there comes from the near clock of ebony a muffled peal more solemnly emphatic than any which reaches their ears who indulge in the more remote gaieties of the other apartments." - **"The Masque of the Red Death"** Edgar Allan Poe (1845)



2) " It was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that I encountered my friend. He accosted me with excessive warmth, for he had been drinking much. The man wore __motley__. He had on a tight-fitting __parti-striped dress and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells__. I was so pleased to see him, that I thought I should never have done wringing his hand." -**"The Cask of Amontillado"** Edgar Allan Poe (1846)

 --- Definition from: All American Glossary of Literary Terms- www.uncp.edu /// about.com

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