gazed down at its own beauty‚ the living earth looking into perfect enlightenment. The lack of pigment making up the mists at the base of the background and the streams in the middle ground imply that nothingness and oneness are at the heart of this sublime natural scene. The black ink used in this painting‚ the lack of ink used to create certain elements in this painting‚ and the perspective of this painting‚ which puts the viewer in a god-like position‚ reflect the beauty of nature and the values of
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Category One – Context Context investigates a text’s personal‚ social and historical context. Blade Runner‚ directed by Ridley Scott‚ was first released in 1982. At this time‚ computers were at an all-time high in popularity and productivity‚ businesses were booming and the environment was being ignored for financial profits. All of these values had an impact on the way Blade Runner was written and directed. Blade Runner was released right in the middle of the ‘Computer-Age.’ This was the period
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Pre-romanticism paintings like Volaire’s‚ The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius‚ displays images of sublimity through light‚ colors and movement. These Sublime images directly display the wildness and the magnitude of nature. While other artists of the pre-romanticism movement use sublimity none use sublimity quite like Volaire does. Volaire’s paintings are unique because they feature dynamic paintings of volcanoes‚ movement‚ and feature brilliant colors which are aesthetically different from his peers of
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The Romantic era is denoted by an extensive questioning and expression of challenging notions building on the convictions of the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment challenged the Christian Orthodoxy which had dominated Europe for 1‚000 years. Romanticism proposed an exploration of self‚ emphasising the primacy of the individual and a vision of humankind animated by the imagination‚ endorsing a reverence and personal connection to nature. The set texts Fancy and Ode to a Nightingale explore a world
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House of Usher; More then Meets the Eye The Fall of the House of Usher written by Edgar Allen Poe was written in 1839‚ as the age of enlightenment and reason were on the rise. It is a horror gothic story‚ with an atmosphere of evil‚ as well as a sublime that overwhelmed the reader with fear. The Fall of the House of Usher is not only a dark romantic‚ written with a great deal attention to imagery‚ enhancing the parallelism and symbolism that arises as a correlation between the house the Ushers live
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French philosophy‚ his interdisciplinary discourse covers a wide variety of topics including knowledge and communication; the human body; modernist and postmodern art‚ literature‚ and music; film; time and memory; space‚ the city‚ and landscape; the sublime; and the relation between aesthetics and politics. -Jean-Francois Lyotard is a French philosopher best known for his ideas about post-modernism. In this essay‚ lyotard strongly doubts the idea of Habermas about the incomplete project of modernity
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Enlightenment thought. The violent and terrifying images of nature conjured by Romantic artists recall the eighteenth-century aesthetic of the Sublime. As articulated by the British statesman Edmund Burke in a 1757 treatise and echoed by the French philosopher Denis Diderot a decade later‚ "all that stuns the soul‚ all that imprints a feeling of terror‚ leads to the sublime." In French and British painting of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries‚ the recurrence of images of shipwrecks (2003.42
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Poe‚ Edgar Allan. Dreamland. Poemhunter. Jan 28-31‚ Feb 1-2. 2. Poe‚ Edgar Allan. Dreamland. Poestories. Jan 30-Feb 2 < http://poestories.com/read/dreamland> 3. "clime‚ n.". OED Online. December 2013. Oxford University Press. 2 February 2014 . 4. "sublime‚ adj. and n.". OED Online. December 2013. Oxford University Press. 2 February 2014 . 5. "Thule‚ n.". OED Online. December 2013. Oxford University Press. 2 February 2014 . 6. "eidolon‚ n.". OED Online. December 2013. Oxford University Press. 2 February
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archaism and Latinism‚ use of the exotic proper names‚ unusual compound epithets‚ use of allusions‚ myths‚ legends‚ history‚ literature‚ science‚ geography‚ classical and biblical references etc. have gone into making Miltonic verse exceedingly sublime. Rhythm‚ vocabulary‚ and imagery have mingled to form the majestic garment of Milton’s thought‚ imagination‚ ideas and feelings. Again‚ Milton used some highly technical terms to add a special grace to his style. References of nautical science‚ military
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Our Casuarina Tree | | Toru Dutt (1856–77) | | | LIKE a huge Python‚ winding round and round | | The rugged trunk‚ indented deep with scars‚ | | Up to its very summit near the stars‚ | | A creeper climbs‚ in whose embraces bound | | No other tree could live. But gallantly | 5 | The giant wears the scarf‚ and flowers are hung | | In crimson clusters all the boughs among‚ | | Whereon all day are gathered bird and bee; | | And oft at nights the
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