Distorted Beauty

While reading “Observations on the River Wye” I felt that the line “perfect enough to form the perspective; yet broken enough to destroy the regularity” (49) really embodies the Romantic movement, especially with relation to the various landscapes and collections. Andrews points out the various objects people use in “The Search for the Picturesque” when traveling the countryside and it brought me back to this quote. They capture the scene itself, yet remove the details that make it familiar. I think that is what I find so disturbing about it all, that people had to appreciate the beauty through an altered form instead of taking it all in as a whole. I found it all so unsettling because people “needed” these things to appreciate the natural world, instead of taking it in as a whole.