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The 108 pages that link to Symbolism, each with the reason it gives.

• ModernismRelated: Its turn from literal description toward subjective meaning fed modernist writing and art.

• Romanticism in philosophyRelated: Its reliance on suggestive images extends Romantic faith in art’s power to disclose meaning.

• RomanticismCompared with: Symbolism inherited Romantic inwardness while rejecting direct representation.

• Modernist poetryNarrower topic: Symbolist experiments with ambiguity and sound prepared poets to challenge direct statement.

• Art NouveauRelated: Symbolist art shared Art Nouveau’s interest in dreamlike imagery and expressive, nonclassical forms.

• Literary modernismRelated: Its indirect methods and emphasis on suggestion helped prepare modernist literary techniques.

• Post-ImpressionismRelated: Its emphasis on suggestion and inner meaning overlaps with Gauguin’s symbolic painting.

• German RomanticismRelated: Symbolist art inherited Romantic interest in suggestion, inward experience, and meanings beyond literal description.

• Naturalism (theatre)Compared with: Symbolist theatre resisted naturalism’s demand for observable settings and behavior.

• Charles BaudelaireNarrower topic: Baudelaire’s suggestive imagery helped prepare the poetic methods later associated with Symbolism.

• Paul GauguinRelated: Its suggestive imagery helps explain Gauguin’s move beyond painting appearances.

• French poetryRelated: French Symbolists loosened direct statement and transformed poetic sound and imagery.

• Wassily KandinskyRelated: Symbolist art helped prepare Kandinsky to treat images as carriers of spiritual meaning.

• Decadent movementRelated: It overlapped with decadence while placing greater emphasis on symbolic evocation.

• MimesisCompared with: Symbolic meaning can depend on convention rather than resemblance to reality.

• W. B. YeatsRelated: Yeats used recurring symbols to connect personal experience with myth and spiritual ideas.

• Stéphane MallarméNarrower topic: Mallarmé became one of its leading poets, shaping its preference for suggestion over direct description.

• Alexander BlokNarrower topic: Its broader European currents shaped the literary movement Blok joined.

• Art for art's sakeBroader topic: Its poets resisted utilitarian realism and pursued effects grounded in artistic form.

• Maurice RavelRelated: The movement’s aesthetic shaped the cultural world surrounding Ravel and his artistic peers.

• Rainer Maria RilkeRelated: Symbolist techniques illuminate the suggestive imagery in Rilke’s early poetry without defining his whole career.

• Dante Gabriel RossettiRelated: Rossetti’s suggestive imagery helped prepare the ground for Symbolist approaches.

• VanitasRelated: Symbolist artists inherited vanitas’s use of objects to carry meanings beyond their appearances.

• André GideRelated: Gide’s early writing drew on Symbolist aesthetics before he developed a more direct style.

• CloisonnismNarrower topic: Cloisonnism’s stylization often supported Symbolist meaning rather than naturalistic depiction.

• Impressionism in musicRelated: Its aesthetics help explain why musical impressionism often evokes rather than narrates.

• ParnassianismRelated: Several poets associated with Parnassianism later helped establish this movement.

• The WeddingNarrower topic: Apparitions and objects carry the play’s national and psychological meanings.

• Boris PasternakRelated: Pasternak’s early poetry emerged amid Russian Symbolism’s influence.

• Paul VerlaineNarrower topic: Verlaine’s suggestive imagery and musical verse became touchstones for the movement.

• The ScreamRelated: The landscape and figure work as expressive signs rather than naturalistic description.

• Russian modernismBroader topic: Its Russian branch launched modernist experiments in poetry and artistic form.

• Andrei BelyNarrower topic: The wider movement supplies the artistic context for Russian Symbolism and Bely’s experiments.

• Émile BernardCompared with: Bernard’s later religious and literary interests intersected with Symbolist concerns.

• ModernismoRelated: Its suggestive imagery helped Modernismo move beyond direct, utilitarian description.

• Edvard MunchNarrower topic: Munch drew on Symbolist emphasis on psychological and spiritual meaning.

• Edward Burne-JonesRelated: Burne-Jones’s dreamlike figures and mythic narratives appealed to Symbolist artists and viewers.

• European modernismRelated: Its turn from literal representation opened paths toward modernist subjectivity and abstraction.

• Generation of '27Related: Its emphasis on suggestion informed the group’s varied approaches to poetic imagery.

• Maurice DenisNarrower topic: Its emphasis on ideas and suggestion shaped Denis’s subjects and artistic aims.

• Paul SérusierNarrower topic: His later paintings use symbolic subjects and color to move beyond naturalistic depiction.

• Fin de siècleRelated: Its indirect forms suited artists seeking alternatives to realism and conventional representation.

• Franz MarcRelated: Marc’s animals carry spiritual meanings beyond their depicted physical forms.

• Hugo von HofmannsthalNarrower topic: Symbolist techniques inform the compressed imagery and ambiguity of Hofmannsthal’s early poetry.

• JugendstilRelated: Symbolist themes and imagery overlapped with Jugendstil in painting and graphic art.

• Leopoldo LugonesRelated: Symbolist techniques inform the imagery and musical effects in Lugones’s modernista poetry.

• Marina TsvetaevaRelated: Tsvetaeva emerged amid Russian Symbolism but developed a more forceful, personal poetics.

• Pont-Aven SchoolRelated: Symbolist aims help explain why Pont-Aven pictures depart from straightforward visual description.

• A Slap in the Face of Public TasteCompared with: The Futurists sought to displace the older movement's authority in Russian poetry.

• Antonio MachadoRelated: Machado’s recurring roads, water, and landscapes often carry symbolic meaning.