Sense and Sensibility

making use of his five senses to explore; to feel and to try to become one with nature (as we will discover later in the final stanza of the poem). Shelley’s approach to nature is opposed to William Wordsworth because the latter conceives nature as a source of inspiration, whereas for Shelley nature is the aesthetic beauty…

same because before, it had never been touched by a human hand. And even more, I have left a fingerprint like a stamp. It is the same with people, isn’t? Through the senses, every single person you come in contact with you affect positively or…

them. The world that we live in is known as the “macrocosm and that enters the soul “the microcosm” through our five senses. In the visible world there are things that generate, things that are generated and still others that govern them. They could either be completely bound or separately linked with or they might be altogether free from matter. Next we learn about the five senses and how they serve the five portals. “Through these portals, then, both simple bodies and composite bodies…

As a term, expanded cinema generally refers to cinematic exhibition or spectacle in which the concept of established filmic practice and structure is broadened by incorporating immersive and dynamic elements as opposed to single-screen viewing experience. ‘Expanded’ components may be evident in the materiality of the spectacle, such as in the employment of numerous surfaces for a screening, juxtaposition of various interdisciplinary mediums not restricted to cinema, immersion of the viewer and…

situations involve an individual feeling “incomplete” or “wrong” in their current body or self. In the case of transsexuals, they feel that they have been born in the wrong body in the sense that they feel they should be another gender. Those with apotemnophilia also feel that they should have a different body, but in the sense that they perceive one or more of their limbs as “extra” or “not a true part of themselves.” Both situations involve building one’s identity around what will make them…

Aristotle’s theory on people’s perception of reality was that ultimately, perception is reality. He said that the sole task of human consciousness is to perceive and that there is only one reality: that which man perceives. Perception occurs in being moved or affected, and it seems to be a type of alteration. From perception comes memory, from memory comes experience, and from experience comes a principle of truth and knowledge. Therefore, perception is the foundation for all human knowledge,…

The built environment is enriched with human physical interactions and activity, it can be interpreted that the concept of architecture is influenced by our five corporeal senses. The essence of architecture should be a memorable experience for the people. It should be recognised through its qualities based on our senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch where they can interact and engage with the space. By studying the human behaviour and the essence in phenomenology we could change the…

In Italo Calvino 's "The naked bosom," the protagonist Mr. Palomar undergoes an internal conflict of viewing a woman 's bare bosom as she sun-bathes along a beach. Palomar is discreet upon his actions, yet he fails to realize the implications of viewing the woman 's breast in such a derogatory manner. His inner restrictions, specifically society’s perception of nudity, compel his course of actions as he is torn from one thought to another. It is suggested that social conventions related to…

class handout on Romanticism it states that Blake and Coleridge who were also “idealist” because for them the mind is the jewel of importance; however, they also believed that the governing work of the mind is imagination (Romanticism, 293). In this sense imagination is vital for creating meaning for oneself and of that of what is “out there.” However, I do disagree with the standpoint of “Each (Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats who) confined not only that the imagination was (the) most precious…

Though humans have been perceived and acknowledge matter through senses including taste, smell, sight, touch, and hearing, but activity of the brain is not considered to be a sense. Descartes believed that there are solely two substances to ever exist, mind and matter. Descartes supposed that the body is nothing but a statue or a machine where the way the body functions can be accounted for mechanically except for the activities of the mind where none can be seen, touched, smelled, tasted or…