To keep a relationship "platonic" means to eliminate its romantic aspect, restricting the partners to intellectual stimulation alone. Modern minds may think that this love is not as fertile as heterosexual romantic love and even consider this asexual affection something other than love, as it bears no children. ...
Along with the stimulation of the heroic these students are drawn toward the "romantic" aspect of life. This romantic outlook heightens the significance and enlarges the meaning of their thinking by applying these qualities to people and everyday occurrences. ... By looking at what are students read, watch and play we can see there interest in the romantic, the wonderful and the awe-inspiring, but what we fail to do is bring that into the curriculum. ...
The story begins as she enters his home and is in a very vulnerable state, after braving a severe storm for a romantic evening. ... This verse demonstrates his romantic feelings towards her and how he feels that simply being in her presence changes a cold, stormy night into a warm, comforting evening. ...
Shelley's definition of poetry not only presents the central thematic concern of English Romantic Poetry –imagination– but also deals with the concept of poet, as we will observe as well in "Sonnet (Lift not the painted veil which those who live)". ... Abrams states that "no less characteristic of romantic theory is a set of alternative analogies implying that poetry is an interaction, the joint effect of inner and outer, mind and object, passion and the perceptions of sense" (51). ...
An Ounce of Relation in Purest Form In order to enjoy writing, you must first be interested in your subject. You must allow yourself to become for a few minutes that character within. As I jumped back and forth, trying helplessly to decipher what stories intrigued me enough to write about them, I s...
PHIL 100 Why are we here? You would be hard pressed to find a human being on this planet who has not asked him or herself this question at some point in life. In fact, most people have probably taken it one step further and actually given serious thought to this question. Some even say that t...
Writers Rand and Pirsig argues in different ways the proposition that happiness is the state of the conscious mind which can be achieved by combining both Rational and Romantic thinking process to achieve an Inner Peace and a higher Quality life. ...
I had always thought art was about the personalization of one's perspective of physical reality, a filter through which we can observe the material world in ways may or may not match ours. When I watched a short surrealist film, "Destino," (Dalí, Hench, & Ernst, 2003), however, I realized that there is another side of art, one that is unmaterialistic: it has absolutely nothing to do with replicating the physical world and has most – if not everything – to do with the non-physical. The clear portrayal, the beautiful expression of the inner worlds of feelings and emotions, of t...
The Psychoanalysis of Holden Caulfield My name is John Johnson and I am Holden Caulfield's psychoanalyst. I have a PhD from Stanford University and have been working with teenagers for ten years. However, Holden Caulfield has been different then any other patient I have ever had. Even though...
My pervious paper tells of a man in search of himself. It can be said that Descartes is the same as the unnamed man in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Both men are always searching for answers and looking around. He was a man in search of himself, a man not willing to follow the human r...
A global study was done years ago by the New Economics Foundation to find out the long pondered question, which country is the, "happiest". Costa Rica, surprisingly, is ranked first as the world's happiest country. Costa Rica ranks 71 in the World's richest countries so how can they be so, "happ...
