English
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Compare Mont Blanc, frost at midnight and Tintern
I just do not get it........Well, anyway here is my thought and guess. Three poems all have the same key word which is natural. William Wordsworth mainly describes how natural influences it during different stages of life. Also, he also mentions how important his sister is in his heart. In his situation, natural is his passion and author seems it as the spiritual shelter when he goes to the city. Compared to Mont Blanc written by shelley, William inclines to express his love to natural through the poem. Unlike william, shelley is more obsessed with the serene of the mountain. For the poem Frost at midnight, the author discusses the solitude and tranquility that nature has and expressed his own idea about being alone and praising the beautiful scene. He believes only God can make such a beautiful sound and human is only a part of nature. These three poem all have Platonism, which believed nothing lasts forever only the thought of human has eternity.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Mary Shelley & Percy Shelley
Mary Shelley had the imagination as literacy symbolism while Percy Shelley emphasised encountering the sublime. As couples, Mary was influenced by her husband Percy to some degree. In the book Frankenstein, victor had the craziest idea of creating a live from a dead people. It connects to the Romanticism because that was the time science versus spiritual, and the imagination was over reason. Also, when victor had chance to saw the endless powerful lightning, he was shocked. So Mary included the element of nature in the book which is greatly affected by Percy. Frankenstein has a lot inner world descriptions of victor. For instance, he was sad because he took perfect parts of dead body and ended up giving a live to a ugly monster. Also, paragraphs of descriptions were written down when he knew the monster killed William and then Justin was accused of killing. His hands killed two beloved person indirectly. Mary wrote a lot about how painful victor was. Compared with Percy, Mary was more emotional. Percy was more into the sublime of the nature. Through the picture, we see the snow mountain. Percy said it was deep eternity. So we may draw a safe conclusion that they both have different Romanticism elements but Mary has some similarity to Percy.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Frankenstein- the creation of Monster
If we look at the background when shelley wrote this book, we can always find the elements of Romanticism everywhere. Loving nature, as one character of Romanticism, is shown when the book mentioned Frankenstein was interested in nature when he was a little boy. The passion on the nature had opened the door to the creation of monster and it finally lead him to endless pain. After Frankenstein saw the tree reduced to thin ribbons of wood, he was shocked by the power of nature. On the other hand, romanticism also try to make strong art effect, unique person character. Frankenstein was obviously different from other people. He was into different theories that had been exploded. Independent thinking is also be expressed by the character of frankenstein.
Romanticism also emphasis the contrast between beauty and ugly. He took the best part of different dead body and wanted to give life to a beautiful creation. When it was brought in alive, Frankesnstein started to hate the creature because it was ugly. So the contrast stood out.
Monday, September 30, 2013
William Blake poems
The comparison always emphasises the differences and makes the main idea stands out. In the poems, William Blake made one poem innocent and the other one experienced. He tried to make a distinctive contradiction between two poems. In the innocent one, he mentions Jesus, angle and heaven several times which shows the admiration to Christian. Also, he showed how glorious the world is by picturing beautiful children scene. They are beautiful and passionate. The poem describes a harmonious society. On the other hand, the experienced poems also revealed the truth that society did harm to young children. For instance, the boy was forced to sing the notes of the woe. So basically, he was trying to say the the world is good whereas the society also harmed the children. Children suffer poverty and starving. He wants to convince people that the world with is peaceful. The government is good and doe not harm the people such as the flowers of the country which are children. In the experienced version of Holy Thursday, the repetition of three "ands" has a strong attitude shown of William Blake which he desire to have a better world which there is no poverty and children can have a improved life.
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