The Dark Side

The Dark Romantics were a group of romantics who went against the social norm of their little group romantics that lived in their own little world and decided to dabble into darker matters, (matters that did not even come to close to being slightly morbid, or anything of the sort) but things such as insanity, madness, and the human self and its darker side. I would consider them neutral romantics. They didn't do anything that could've earned them the "dark" title, yet, they're only dark because of this highly elevated sense of romanticism. It doesn't really make sense, because the dark side basically just explored NORMAL human traits that only seemed dark because of how buttered up the world had been and icing-topped with sugary sweets by the "normal" romantics. It's quite strange of how someone could dictate what something else is based on a comparison of one thing to the other while never fully understanding the other. I'm sure that people understand what these "dark" romantics are saying, yet, they shouldn't have just simply branded them as dark.