Romanticism: So many great novels and stories have been written in this literary type from the Song of Solomon (certainly not from the properly demarcated time frame, but still…) to Romeo/Juliet, Don Juan and Last of the Mohicans, etc. I can go on. Every love story has emotions, but there is one thread of commonality, seems to me anyway, in that there is an isolation of the protagonist and a suspension of reality occurring at some point. The more that that happens the more true to form or stereotypical romanticism the story becomes. For example, contrast Romeo/Juliet and Last of the Mohicans (LOTM). The children are lost in the abyss made by them and die not of love but of grief of want. Although, in LOTM, the ‘hero’ dies for love and save the life of his desired one. Verbal expressions surely change over time to give each example of romanticism its particular flavor. In Solomon’s text he uses words for animals, trees, places, etc to compare with the beauty of the Egyptian Queen. The sentiment is the same as in El Estudiante and I truly don’t believe that the genre has to be confined to the official period. It will always be in most human beings as long as there are humans.