Longines book on the sublime has provided me and the world with many insights on good writing and achieving the sublime. He gives five basic rules for writing and goes in depth on how important structure is. Here is my take on it. He talks of structure in the sublime. We must be clear in what we mean to say and how we do it. He talks extensively of this on page fifty. He also tells us we must not have tumors in the story “for they only dilute”. If you are clear and smart about how you structure
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Nowell was a musician who served as lead singer and guitarist of the reggae/punk band Sublime. He died at the age of 28 from a heroin overdose. Raised in Long Beach‚ California‚ Nowell developed an interest in music at a young age. His father took him on a trip to the Virgin Islands during his childhood‚ which exposed him to reggae and dancehall music. Nowell played in various bands until forming the group Sublime with bassist Eric Wilson and drummer Bud Gaugh. Bradley Nowell was born and raised
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Pound’s poem‚ “Fan Piece for her Imperial Lord”‚ a poem in which I argue represents both the sublime as well as beauty. More so‚ I argue his poem is a direct representation of how the sublime can be found in beauty. How through the idea of pleasure and goodness one can experience pain. Beauty aims to please the senses in some way‚ focusing on objects of delicacy‚ smoothness and color. On the contrary‚ the sublime attempts to evoke a sense of overwhelming magnificence in an attempt to inspire haughty
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As an example of a sublime installation we could describe the one titled “The Seven Heavenly Places” by Anselm Kiefer as the scale and the theme have strong symbolic extensions‚ associated with the sense of the highness. The installation includes large architectural constructions (towers of up to 18 meters high) and large-scale paintings which illustrate Elijah ascending to heaven. The towers are made of ruined concrete blocks of abandoned buildings and parts of shipping containers‚ representing
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atherine Mansfield’s experiences growing up in colonial New Zealand heightened her awareness of the discontinuities‚ lacunae‚ and tensions of modern life. She was born in 1888 in Wellington‚ a town labeled “the empire city” by its white inhabitants‚ who modeled themselves on British life and relished their city’s bourgeois respectability.[1] At an early age‚ Mansfield witnessed the disjuncture between the colonial and the native‚ or Maori‚ ways of life‚ prompting her to criticize the treatment of
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The sublime The transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism period was a change from reason to feeling; Rousseau’s ideas helped to bring about the romanticism period. His ideas of man was born free which helped shape this new period‚ were people were anxious to be free instead of just being political‚ and of thought‚ moral‚ spiritual‚ of worship‚ of taste‚ of felling. This period brought about vast interest to the medieval period and the sublime. Artists were attracted towards sublime art because
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Negrin Summer Literature Assignment Mrs. Ana Lourdes Garcia English IV Honors G-Block The Sublime in Frankenstein Throughout the novel‚ Frankenstein‚ two forms of the sublime are utilized. Considering all the elements that comprise the sublime: plot‚ character descriptions‚ setting‚ character development‚ etc.‚ positivity and negativity intertwine to form the building blocks of the sublime. Since the sublime also focuses on the aesthetic side of matters‚ it embellishes an individual with the belief
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Gabby Crank P.2 Honors English 4/20/15 Music Paper Adam Levine featuring Maroon 5 For the past twenty-one years‚ Maroon 5 has been epically thriving and amplifying in the music business. Maroon 5 originated in Los Angeles‚ California. The group was known as Kara’s Flowers in 1994‚ and then became Maroon 5 in 2001. This was not the only change for the sprouting band; their sound went from grunge to lively pop rock. Maroon 5’s most well-known artist‚ Adam Levine pours his heart and emotions into
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The word “sublime” means: to inspire great admiration or awe tending to inspire awe because of elevated quality or beauty. The band Sublime does not fall short of this grandiose title. For my mars playlist I chose to put the song “Don’t Push” off of Sublime’s debut 1992 album “40oz to Freedom”. This track’s nonchalant story-telling lyrics‚ heavily delayed dopey vocals‚ catchy bassline‚ reggae guitar riffs‚ and their free-spirited punk attitude‚ perfectly depicts my favorite aspect of Sublime’s signature
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in a manner analogous to terror‚ is a source of the sublime; beauty is a name I shall apply to all such qualities in things as induce in us a sense of affection and tenderness‚ or some other passion the most resembling these.” (Burke) Edmund Burke sees painting as two very different realms of emotions. On one side‚ there are beauties‚ which are the emotions that might cause feelings of calmness‚ gentleness‚ joyfulness‚ brightness. Where sublime emotions are darker and opposite of beauty‚ like‚ gloomy
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