**[[Romanticism|Romantic]] Irony = best [[irony]].** Romantic Irony is when the subject realizes they were always already the object. That is, their subjective point-of-view was always-already implicated in the supposedly "objective" external thing they were looking at. - That's not [[Wordsworth 1798-1800 - Tintern Abbey|Tintern Abbey]]... that's the poet looking at Tintern Abbey. - That's not a [[Blake 1794 - The Tyger|Tyger]]... that's an "Experienced" subject looking at a Tyger. - Etc. Romantic Irony is why, when you go to the [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism) for Romanticism, you see [[Caspar Friedrich]]'s [[Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer|Wanderer]] as the featured image in the top right: ![[wikipedia_romanticism.png|400]] **It's not about the view of the mountains; *it's the wanderer who's doing the viewing.***