Aspects of Symbolism (ca. 1857-1930)

1. An extension of the romantic notion of self-consciousness and metaphor.
2. Stresses multiple perspectives and the resources of the senses.
3. Language as the form of symbols points to another, larger plane of existence that cannot be understood through scientific, rationalistic methods
4. Language is highly controlled to produce its effects.
5. More interested in the allusive and the fragmentary.
6. It had a large influence on early twentieth-century modernism.