The word “Weltschmerz” initially came into being as a by-product of the Romanticism movement in Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This is a German word that the poets of the Romantic era adopted to describe their pain and suffering for what was happening around the world and their difficulties adjusting to those realities which they perceived as threatening their right to personal freedom. "Weltschmerz," which was formed by combining the German words for "worl