Opie Taylor

Taoist practitioner. As stated before, the poem was written in A.D. 744, the year that Li Bai was banished from the imperial court of Emperor Xuanzong and the same year he met his great friend, Du Fu. He may have been Li Bai’s poem demonstrates culture, and exhibit an illusion of deep beauty. He expresses his freedom and an adventure with his good friend Du Fu. “His ability to create almost supernatural beauty in tiny poems made of concrete images, his whimsical Taoist sense of humor, and the…

The Rococo and Neoclassical visual arts have come to define the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Each resulted from popular culture, influence, and reform, yet had an impact on one another. The Rococo painter exhibited whimsical scenes, sometimes scandalous, bathed in softer color shades while the neoclassical painter sought to give emphasis to tradition and nationalism. To elucidate these variances, this author will use famed “The Swing” by Jena-Honore Fragonard to contrast against the…

The Hudson River school movement is a movement that depicts the landscape in the area. It uses the beauty of nature in the Hudson River Valley. The art fits 3 different themes discovery, exploration, and settlement. The art can feature the valleys, streams, and other environmental features. The paintings are highly detailed and contain a lot of contrast. All in all the paintings are a vivid detail of the surrounding environment. The painting shown above is called “Autumn Shower” by…

To begin, romanticism began in Germany and England. It later Entered Europe in the 19th century and it was deeply connected with politics and it was always at the root of change in Europe at the time. Some of the he origins of romanticism include Folklore and popular art, nationalism, Shakespeare, gothic romance, medievalism, emotions, religion, individualism, concept of nature, and Victorianism. At the time when artists began to shift from romanticism to realism, culture and society was…

others who believe otherwise. People in the Romantic Era all embraced nature and it’s importance to the world and to us. Many poets and writers often expressed it in their writings. For example, in the story, “The Rime of an Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he intends to show to his audience that nature is an important ally of humanity, by telling a story of a sailor having extremely bad luck after harming an element of nature. The Romantic Era did not focus on love or anything…

If I had to pick a favorite “unit”, I would say individual poetry presentation. My friend and I did a very similar group presentation on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” in highschool, still one of my favorite poems. This project inspired me to very vigorously read and listen to reading of the poems, and similar to the one in highschool, inspired a lot of excited anxiety and a feeling of accomplishment…

William Cullen Bryant was an influential Romantic poet in the 1800s. Common themes such as nature appear in many of Bryant’s poems. His poem “Thanatopsis” speaks directly to those who share a “love of Nature,” offering comfort regarding thoughts of death. Bryant’s use of structure, imagery, and selection of detail creates a unique perspective of death. Bryant opens “Thanatopsis” by vividly describing one’s relationship with nature. He creates an image of a humanlike nature by using…

alike with booming, highly produced anthems like ‘We Are the Champions’ and ‘We will Rock You’” (“Queen Bio” 1). When Queen performs all of the audience’s attention is on the members of Queen. Queen is made up of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon. The main member that fans adore and most fans…

Humans have relied on accessible sources, such as books, scholarly journals, and articles, in order to learn or obtain information. Humans can also learn through another medium: nature. Nature has delicate and majestic works of art available to be observed and studied. Works of art such as mountains, waterfalls, and rainbows are able to captivate the human mind on a daily basis; however, nature is responsible for more than aweing humans with its immeasurable beauty. Through a strong connection…

The two poems, “The Seafarer” and “The Wanderer” have many similarities. Both poems are about a tremendous journey to find their place in heaven. “The Seafarer” and “The Wanderer” have their hardships and they have loneliness and sorrow throughout their journeys. The poems both use words like “icy” and “wintry,” which shown how hard the journey was. The Wanderer is forced to wander on the journey to heaven while The Seafarer choose to go on a journey. The Wanderer was forced to go on the…