Sublime

She Walks In Beauty Laced with endless compliments and adoration, Lord Byron’s poem “She Walks in Beauty” tells the story of a man admiring a woman’s beauty. While the speaker does not claim that he is in love with the nameless woman, it is evident that he is attracted to her – based on the detail in which he describes her physical beauty. The “cloudless…starry skies” and “tender light” accompanied by the undulating iambic tetrameter sets the perfect, romantic mood for the speaker to…

only when he avoids the risks associated with scientific exploration. Later, Victor again retreats among nature to recover from more of his life’s tragedies. He again feels awe as he sees “the glorious presence-chamber of imperial Nature… These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded [him] the greatest consolation” (Shelley 99). Shelley again uses a noble, royal connotation when describing nature. She uses a more in depth analysis of Victor’s relief; she finds that it comes from the…

The era of gothic novels ushered in a time of revolt from science and a push away from scientific thought. Frankenstein, itself, offers one long ode to how ambition and the thirst for knowledge can have devastating consequences for the person who craves them. The creature and Victor Frankenstein both serve as warning signs for Walton on his journey for scientific discovery. Much of Frankenstein centers around characters searching for knowledge and understanding of the world. Each of the three…

anti-intellectualism, widespread political repression and persecution, misguided social and cultural priorities, an increasingly ugly and vulgar popular culture, and, perhaps most questionable of all, an intense apathy to all things beautiful and sublime” (Varela 3)? In the early 1960’s, a group of artists and filmmakers primarily set in New York City began create films that would later define the decade as a period of sexual and cultural upheaval. For numerous of these films, they uncovered…

Theme of Race in Recitatif and Sonny’s Blues Across history, the color of the skin has been used to segregate people. Authorities have utilized this element to reward others, while some have been punished because of it. Resources in the community have also been historically allocated based on race and not the needs. This has left some races to be at a disadvantage. One of the most deprived groups has been the black race. For centuries, the notion of this race being inferior has been passed to…

Introduction: Dracula, written by Bram Stoker in 1897, has become one of the most popular and enduring gothic novels. This blood-sucking vampire is now an iconic symbol of horror, whose fame stretches far beyond the covers of the novel. Written at the precipice of the turn of the century, the novel touches upon anxieties of a society that was changing at an uncomfortably rapid place. Stoker used this unlikely horror story to convey the apprehension of the Victorians, which includes anxieties…

will to die a peaceful and, in her mind, a perfect death. However, the calming and peaceful mood was later interrupted by the intervention of the filthy fly. “ and then it was / There interposed a Fly-” (11-12). The speaker’s vision of a perfect, sublime death containing peace and harmony, was interrupted by something so common. Death is just like life, and it is part of life; death is not something that should be prepared for, but rather, accepted as being…

Premiering in 1997, the musical Ragtime, written by the trio of Terrence McNally (Book/Script), Stephen Flaherty (Music), and Lynn Ahrens (Lyrics) was something along the lines of a smash hit. Featuring a star studded cast, with such luminaries as Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marin Mazzie, and Audra McDonald, the musical won four Tony Awards and was nominated for 14, including Best Musical. The musical is based on E.L. Doctorow’s 1974 novel Ragtime, a work of historical fiction that has various…

In the story “Bird of Paradise: How I became Latina” by Raquel Cepeda, begins with a title that drives the readers mind into a flowing photo of nature. From just reading part of the title, it can be interpreted that the author depicts herself as a free animal. A flying animal, that comes from a place described as a paradise or an ideal place as some will call it; which as Cepeda explains, “paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.” In the first paragraph,…

ABSTRACT The life of Chengez is crisscrossed by personal and political events and though, in the best fashion of an objective analyst, one tries to keep these issues compartmentalised, they do overlap. It is these areas of overlapping that become interesting as they illustrate the maxim, “The personal is political and the political is personal.” The two parts of the study show how Changez’s life becomes an eddy caught in the cross currents of international geopolitics, especially in the…