“Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.” (George R.R Martin, A Game of Thrones)  The romanticism, a cultural movement that emerged from a social and ideological crisis in the XIX century, was an era where the loneliness, the individualism, the introspection, among others, was represented. Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are considered part from this movement not only by the themes but by the tone, the feelings and the point of view towards humanity.  Through the reading, it can be seen some characteristics that reflects the shift in ideas made by the romantics with the description, the attitude of the characters inter alia. 

Evasion is a resource used by romantics to escape from reality and the ideals or values of their era, leaking towards another period of time like the Middle Age. The stories of Edgar Allan Poe occur in a different era, for example the ambience of Hop- Frog happened during the Middle Age.  Through Poe’s writing the values and the ideals are criticized, the characters represent the good and the evil and the loss of values. The king and the court members, Hop- Frog’s characters, are described as grotesque and their attitudes show the lack of authenticity of the human being and of morality. “ "Drink, I say!" shouted the monster, "or by the fiends-" “ (Hop-Frog).  Because the romanticism was born in a social crisis, most of the authors showed the fake moral that the society had.

The writing of Edgar Allan Poe has many elements from the Romanticism.  The tone, the themes, the evasion and the feelings represented in Poe’s stories are elements that this movement exalted. It is often seen the loneliness, the evasion or the individuality in Poe. ““We of the craft are all crazy.” (Lorde Byron)