Personal Experiences with Romantic Art: Example Posts

I've asked my students to explore art of the Romantic period (see instructions). Here, I'd like to model how they might do this. It's a bit tricky, as I want them to write both about Romantic art / artists but also in a romantic way (that is to say, by focusing on personal feeling and experience).

So, in what follows, I give examples of personalizing my experience with some romantic visual art (Francisco Goya's Saturn Devouring His Children); with romantic music (Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition); and romantic literature (Melville's Moby Dick). Enjoy.