Nowadays, people tend to rationalize any novelty they have encountered. However, this way of thinking was not emphasized or widely accepted among the people until the Enlightenment period. During that period, people were advocated to question things actively and thus had developed many creative thoughts. Varying from the Enlightenment ideology, Romanticism brought a theoretical alternative referring to the existence of other abstract factors, such as passion and loyalty. Although it’s hard to explain them with logic reasoning, these factors all play an important role in people’s life. In the story “The Man of the Crowd,” Edgar Allen Poe describes the inability of reason to explain unknowns, while Charles Baudelaire uses his poems “To a Woman Passing by” and “Crowds” to demonstrate the fulfillment of encountering variety of possibilities without actively using reason. Both authors bring up a point that reason is not the only tool people can use to explain their lives, implying that the failure in finding the truth via rationalizing actually helps encourages new way of thinking and imagination.