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THE SUBLIME A NEW SENSIBILITY, WILLIAM BLAKE, ROMANTICISM - Coggle Diagram
THE SUBLIME A NEW SENSIBILITY
difference between
Sublime
and the
Beautiful
Sublimity
: greatness, infinity, obscurity, difficulty.
Beauty
: regularity, control.
Focus on the effects
created on the person who enjoys sublimity
Focus on
individual consciousness
, rather than on imitation of nature's law.
Burke: Sublime arises from
fear/horror
of the
infinite
and
terrible
.
Kant
: sublime arises from the interplay between
sensibility
and
reason
.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Life
London 1757,
humble origins
, poor, trained as
engraver
,
radical
, supported French Revolution,
The Bible
= main inspiration, created
illuminated printing
.
Songs of Experience and Innocence
:
immagination over reason
, images created from his
inner visions
.
Songs of Innocence
(1794): Narrator:
shepherd
, imagery: lambs, flowers, children. Childhood = innocence, happiness, freedom, imagination. Simple, musical language.
Songs of Experience
: Narrator :
bard
, pessimistic view of life. Experience (adulthood) coexists with innocence.
Dualistic view
: complementary opposites, tension between opposite states of mind.
Imagination
: means to know the world,
poet= prophet
simple structure
of the poems,
individual use of the simbols
ROMANTICISM
Subjective
and
irrational
side of life: emotion, imagination, introspection,
relationship with nature
.
2 generations of poets
First Generation
:
Wordsworth
(beauty of nature, ordinary things),
Coleridge
(visionary, mystery, supernatural).
Second Generation
:
Byron, Shelley, Keats
. Political disillusionment, individualism, escapism, alienation of the artist from society.
Simple, creative language
. Use of
symbols
Interest in the humble and everyday life (countryside). Focus on the
irrational aspects
of life.
pantheistic view of Nature
which is a divine being with a soul
The outcast, the atypical,
the rebel
is exalted
The exotic
: the Romatics seek the unfamiliar and the remote in custom and social outlooks
Imagination and childhood
: The child is closer to God, untouched by civilisation.