The Dark Romantics was created in response to the "light romantics"(aka Transcendalists, Romantics), while the Light Romantics believe in a greater good, meaning good always triumps over evil, and that man is good. They also believe that God is everywhere, apart of everything and everyone. While the Dark Romantics believe that man is not good, that they are lonely and misunderstood, and that God is something that one must reach, that isn't apart of everyone and everything.
I think the answer is Light and Dark.
The Dark Romantics explored the civilization of the Goths.
Dark romantics focused on the fallibility of human nature.
The Dark Romantics believed similar things as puritans and romantics but they also saw the dark side of things like sin and also the beautiful things in life.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe were considered Dark Romantics .
They believed in sex.
The Dark Romantics explored the civilization of the Goths.
it was bloody
Dark Ages
He wrote his work in the Dark Romantics genre.
Dark romanticism views humans as flawed and prone to sin and self-destruction. Transcendentalism, on the other hand, views the constructs of society as the catalyst for the corruption of human purity.
Light has different meanings, so the opposite could be heavy or it could be dark.