Tuesday, October 22, 2013

The three poems

The three poems, Tintern Abbey, Frost at Midnight, and Mont Blanc are more similar that I anticipated. All three of these poems mention how the human mind and nature are intertwined. The writer of these poems have the ability to make the reader visualize what is going on in a certain scene due to the imagery in his words. The human mind being connected to nature is a form of romanticism because in the romantic period people would connect the feelings of life with the emotions of nature. The powerful and complex words that they use are what define the meanings of the poems. The authors use god or nature as a main power because they are much bigger than people and can control what goes on. It also shows that people have the choice to do as they please in their lives, all of the decisions they make throughout their lives. another similarity would be that the authors compare the good and bad in both nature and the human life. The sublime characteristics that show up in all of these poems show that nature can be inspirational in the thought that the human is such a little being in such a big world filled with the good and bad found in nature. The sense of awe is sought after by humans because they desire the amazement that can be found in nature.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Mont blanc

Percy and Mary Shelley both see and talk about an experience about seeing Mont Blanc, and they had some of the same tights but Mary also had another thought when she is thinking about Mont Blanc. Percy Shelley when he sees Mont Blanc, he feels a sense of awe and amazement. He wants people to know that there are things that make people realize that they are just a little ant in the big world of amazing things. While Mary takes it one step further and shows it in Frankenstein. "The opposite mountain is a bare perpendicular rock. From the side where I now stood Montanvert was exactly opposite, at the distance of a league; and above it rose Mont Blanc, in awful majesty" (Shelley 71). Mary Shelley describes the sight of Mont Blanc in a way that represents both an amazing view point, and a high point that may symbolizes a change in how someone sees something. This connects to romanticism because the sense of awe is a goor representation of how people might have felt when people would do astonishing things during the time of romanticism. 

Thursday, October 3, 2013

The romantic monster

The monster was created by victor Frankenstein, was a very sensitive and kind creature. He was ugly and people would shun him, so he lives his life Being a monster that no one wants around. The monster had such a genial heart and beside his physical features, he is a true form of romanticism.  He is the true definition the true beauty relies inside. One of the parts of the romantic era was that not all beauty is beautiful, and the best of people come from the worst of features.

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

William Blake is trying to compare both innocence and experience in his poems. His main focus in his poems were children, and how they start off purely innocent. Over time the children start to learn gain experience which may lower the innocence. In a child's life they may not have a lot of choices and that may in turn result in either a better or worse growing. In Blake's poems he seems to make a lot of connection to happiness with his words of the shining sun and all these other types of delightful imagery.