Sublime

Conversely, by comprising supernatural elements, Gothic fiction challenges this rationality imposed by society, illustrating the inexplicable existence of certain creatures and events. Scholars therefore, refer to Burke’s theory of the sublime, indicating sublime experiences that humans are incapable to explain and yet, are of outstanding delight and magnificence. Postcolonial literature and Gothic fiction accentuate the challenge of rationality by representing the Other. The Other is defined as…

Humanity is most affected by matter and ideas, which are intricately entwined in each experience, relationship, and piece of art. Around the time of the 1800s, there was an existential conflict between artists on whether artwork should be more materialistic or more idealistic. The more idealistic Romantics focused on the sublimity of nature, nationalistic and individualistic heroes, and the corrupting of good humans by society. Because they are idealists, they believe that what humans perceive…

Throughout the first volume of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, I was able to absorb most of the text during the first readthrough. Essentially, I picked up on the main points of the plot and any major events or details that happened. What I didn’t pick up on through the first reading though was many smaller, underlying themes that required some thought/analysis. For the most part, this was lots of Romantic themes and ideas and how they were applied. For example, in Chapter 2, Victor is described…

static object by itself, unaffected by perception, Shelley challenges religion’s narrow construction of nature, suggesting that nature’s power is great but its significance is created by one’s imagination (5.139). Ultimately, Shelley suggests that the sublime is not as grand as it may seem to advocate for humanism and to encourage the use of the poet’s imaginative, independent thinking in the face of…

This passion, according to Burke, is created by the idea of the sublime in art. Furthermore, the sublime in a work of art is that in which involves an astonishing, fearful, terrible, and obscure scene. Therefore, Karl Brulluv’s painting, The Last Day of Pompeii, is a sufficient representation of Burke’s ideas. The subject matter of the…

. The closest we can come to defining what constitutes “ Romanticism” is by outlining the ‘certain qualities which set it apart from poetry written before it’, which include (but are not limited) to: nature, the self, the role of the poet, the sublime and the supernatural. Keats was no exception to this; much of his work explores the aforementioned themes…

“The truth and ideals that form the foundation of beauty should not be viewed as identical with logical truth and ideals” (Kitaro). This is said in Nishida Kitaro’s article “An Explanation of Beauty” where he is explaining that he thinks beauty should not be formed or viewed based on the ideas of logic. Some people may agree with his idea of beauty, and others may not. However, this is just his view of beauty. Everyone in the world, whether he or she knows it or not, has a different way they…

Katherine Rossi Core English 1 Professor Ventura October, 8 2015 This art piece is a cigarette ad made in the 1902 by Manuel Orazi. Manuel Orazi was an Italian artist born in 1860 and died in 1934, though little is known of him his art work was liked well enough to be sold to this day. Though his most popular art work an occult calendar called Calendrier Magique published by L’Art Nouveau this picture of he was known for many other lithographic ads such as this one. Nonetheless Orazi uses his…

William Cronon’s essay entitled “The Trouble with Wilderness” is an intelligent and thoughtful work of environmental philosophy that addresses the relationship between nature and man while defining and contextualizing the idea of wilderness. Cronon argues that we must change the way that we think about wilderness. With this idea of man’s perspective of wilderness, Cronon goes on to describe the ways in which man has looked at wilderness throughout history. From a state of fear and intimidation,…

“On first looking into” the poem under study, one may discern some of its formal features. It is written by John Keats after first reading an awe-inspiring translation of Homer into English by Chapman. It rhymes ABBAABBACDCDCD and is dominated with the presence of the sound “I” that suggests a subjective individualistic quest of “poetic truth” in a seemingly lyric text. This is a sonnet made up of two stanzas which develop two aspects of a main theme: Homer’s poetry and its effects on the…