The awful awesome Sublime
My thesis is lost as of yet.
I think it could be stated as such; how awful is the splendor of the
birth of a fold how gruesome is the cause of freedom won how awesome is the
frightful fall how wonderful is the pleasure of experiencing the unknown, is it
all sublime? I want first to define the sublime as it is known to many of the
noteworthy poets and philosophers (Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer, Victor
Hugo). Then using those philosopher’s
incite to draw lines to awful and awesome and then to provide evidence that
awful and awesome produce the same results and are essentially can be the
same. Drawing on poems from Wallace
Stevens I would like to use his poems (The idea of order in Key West, The American
Sublime, ) to defend both positions. I
would like to create my own experience to further demonstrate the sublime in
both its beauty and its horror.
