What is romantic? Today it means candles, roses and maybe a bottle of wine. But what was the term describing in the beginning? First of all, the term Romance was first mentioned to describe medieval and Renaissance tales () concerning knights and their chivalric exploits (Day, 1996: 79). So women sitting in the towers of castles and waiting for the knight to save them was the first mentioned meaning of the word romantic. But the meaning changed throughout the years. Especially in the Romantic Period from 1780 to 1837 (Nnning, 2009: 163). According to the OED Romantic is a characteristic of a movement or style during the late 18th and 19th centuries in Europe marked by an emphasis on feeling, individuality, and passion rather than classical form and order, (..). Poets like Wordsworth and Byron, who are regarded as Romantic poets today, would probably not agree to their work being called Romantic. They rather saw their work as something which is wild, impracticable, and yet contains something which captivates the fancy (Duncan, 1998: 5). To them it was important to emphasize the inner process of the individual mind (Day, 1996: 101). In the 17th century Romanticism was seen to be something exaggerated and fabulous and only in the 18th century the poets rejected the glorification of the city and changed it into glorifying the nature. The Romantic Period was in fact a very emotional period. Poets tried to get away from the rationalism of the Noe-Classicism and turned towards expressing feelings. They also started to be far more critical; especially in political matters. The French Revolution, starting in 1789, influenced some of the poets. The motto of the revolution, Libert, galit, fraternit, describes central aspects of the Romanticism. While the classics wanted the submission of the individual to the eternal order of the universe (Burgum, 1941: 482), the Romanticism pressed for liberty. Equality rejects the class system, on which especially the Noe-Classicism insisted. Fraternity is not only something which fights against the rejection of democracy but also something emotiona