...174, 194-95). Still concerned in 1815, he attached a note to the poem in his first Collected Works. "The subject of these stanzas," he asserted, "is rather an elementary feeling and simple impression [...] upon the imaginative faculty, than an exertion of it" (qtd. in Stillinger 539). Some critics have basically followed Wordsworth's lead: To Jack Stillinger the mental experience embodied by the poem is simple and ordinary (544), and to John Milstead the first three stanzas exemplify merely "a physical stimulus-and-response mechanism" through which the poet remains "passive" . Nevertheless, in the preface to the 1815 collection Wordsworth not only argues that the imagination is ruled by "sublime consciousness" (Stillinger 486), but he also places "I Wandered" among poems categorized by "Imagination." Indeed, many critics ignore Wordsworth's comments on the poem and instead read it as representing a moment in nature of spiritual insight that recurs during a later imaginative re-creation (Joplin 68-69, Stallknecht 81-82, Hartman 5). More precisely, though, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" dramatizes an experience of the sublime in its first three stanzas, which the poet recollects and re-experiences as a "spot of time" in the last stanza. Like other sublime passages in The Prelude and "Tintern Abbey," this one draws on Edmund Burke's as well as Wordsworth's ideas of the sublime. Burke's thoughts in his Philosophical Enquiry are especially recalled in the lines that...
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...All of us have some ambition or the other in life. Such a man has naturally a purpose in life and is always enthusiastic and makes sustained efforts to realise his ambition. He strives hard till he attains what he wishes. Nothing can deter him from the path he treads. But Ambition should be within one's reach. There is no fun for crying for the moon. My ambition is to be a great painter. My teachers have always appreciated my paintings and encouraged me to paint. I have painted various subjects varying from nature to portraits. My paintings have always found a place in our school exhibitions. My imagination is sharp and sense of colours good. This and my vivid imagination have made me a good painter. I have been practicing painting for a long time now and I realize that the more I paint, the better I get it. I know that I can bring a lot of joy to the people who view my paintings. I wish to have my paintings exhibited at various exhibitions and art galleries abroad. A painter creates an imaginary world for himself. I too can create such a world where I can feel comfortable and happy. It is my escape from the mundane reality that I face everyday. It will greatly satisfy my aesthetic sensibility to continue to paint. I hope to evolve my own style of paintings and set an example for the coming generations of painters. As a painter I can express my feelings on the canvas. I can project my sensibility about certain subjects I paint. I want to be a painter with a difference. My...
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...and figurative language to aid in showing how our mind becomes one with a scene upon seeing it. While Stevens’ poem is masterfully painted with imagery, it is ultimately the meaning of the poem that is so very rewarding and that makes it so great. The speaker describes snow covered trees as the sun glitters off of the top of the distant snow covered banks, while the wind blows and creates a sound that gives the reader a miserable feeling. The speaker talks about how winter is a cold and miserable time and it takes a special type of mind to see past that. The speaker has two realities in his hands- the cold and harsh reality of winter and what the speaker creates using his own perspective. What all of this really means is that using imagination, a whole new perspective can be created allowing the reader to hide the harsh, bare reality that the world really is. Stevens’ uses this to demonstrate that the central viewpoint of this poem lies in perspective. When reading the poem the reader comes to the realization that there is no snowman in the poem. Well, how could this be? That is because the title of “The Snow Man” is a metaphor. At the first glimpse of “The Snow Man”, it does not give much away. The only thing that can be deduced from the title is that it is going to be about the winter. But how might that come into play? It cannot be proven that the snow man in the title has a mind of winter, but of anyone who might, the snow man would be a likely candidate. If the snow man does have...
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...Literature can be shared written works and stories created by different authors from different time periods. There are many different styles of literature and many different authors who write literature. Literature can be stories, poems, or many other things. The imagination in literature is the human power that shapes artistic expression; it enables a writer’s work to become an expression of meaning in our world, and allows readers to engage in identifying with what the writer’s work has to say about things that matter. (Clugston 2010). Literature helps the reader escape into a world where their imaginations are able to run wild; you can be who you want to be, because literature becomes your secret world of reality. Day Dreaming allows us to follow all sorts of paths and free to generate all sorts of images, feelings, and thoughts. Our daily way of being typically requires us to be quite focused, and goal oriented. Using a reader-response approach, in this paper you will connect with literature, you will find a personal link or imaginative entry in this story. The literary work of James Thurber: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty will show you how an ordinary man escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of imagination filled with heroism, romance and action. Walter Mitty will embark on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined. . James Thurber wrote a short story about an imaginary character who is caught up...
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...Literature can be shared written works and stories created by different authors from different time periods. There are many different styles of literature and many different authors who write literature. Literature can be stories, poems, or many other things. The imagination in literature is the human power that shapes artistic expression; it enables a writer’s work to become an expression of meaning in our world, and allows readers to engage in identifying with what the writer’s work has to say about things that matter. (Clugston 2010). Literature helps the reader escape into a world where their imaginations are able to run wild; you can be who you want to be, because literature becomes your secret world of reality. Day Dreaming allows us to follow all sorts of paths and free to generate all sorts of images, feelings, and thoughts. Our daily way of being typically requires us to be quite focused, and goal oriented. Using a reader-response approach, in this paper you will connect with literature, you will find a personal link or imaginative entry in this story. The literary work of James Thurber: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty will show you how an ordinary man escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of imagination filled with heroism, romance and action. Walter Mitty will embark on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined. . James Thurber wrote a short story about an imaginary character who is caught up...
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...Threshold experiences in the novels My Antonia and The Age of Innocence In any a piece of literature setting is an essential pillar of narrative construction: it not only includes some factual information about time and place or provides the background in which the events take place, but also has the power to shape the habits and attitudes of their users, or characters. Both Willa Cather in My Antonia and Edith Wharton in The Age of Innocence create the particular narrative texture that implicates some dynamics, i.e. some shifts and changes – on the one hand, the setting of the novels continually changes, and this invariably entails the changing of the characters. Since the setting doesn’t remain static, each time it changes there should be some “turning point”, from which moment on the further development of events becomes completely different. But what exactly this turning point is, what are those “triggers” that help to create this dynamic picture, how can we trace the changes and the molding and development of characters’ personalities, the changes of their identities? The thing is that the authors of both above-mentioned novels create series of “threshold experiences” taking place at the most significant, climatic points in the lives of the protagonists, acting like triggers, indicating some transformations in the outer world of the characters that entail the changes in their inner world as well. These thresholds operate on all levels: separating the interior...
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...they are, and all the quirks that come along with it, and not to compare your Chapter 6 is titled “Balancing fantasy and reality. Children have the most amazing imagination. They can imagine anything they want, from slaying a dragon to saving the child from the evil under lords. A child’s imagination can be quite entertaining at times, but also can be trying and rather embarrassing since the child might not have the abilities for self regulation yet. There might be some loud outburst of light saber battles at the local grocery store. However, keep in mind these are milestones in which your child is developing and how creative your child is becoming and how vivid their imagination has become. In the same hand, however the imagination can get carried away, your child might be expressing angry...
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...Have you ever seen a child talking with his own imaginary friend? It is quite a normal phenomenon which happens to children at the age of four or five. Some parents concern about this appearance. They think that it can be the result of physiological disorder of their child. This phenomenon can even been accepted as avoidance of reality. However, doctors claim that the fact of having imaginary friends shows some good qualities of children and has an important influence on them. The most significant result of having fictional friends is developed imagination of the person. These imaginary companions have certain personalities and behaviors which are given by their creators. For example, some of them can be brave and courageous character, the others shy and weak. All of them have different names, different jobs, different interests and different gender. The researches suggest that children are more likely to have unreal friends with similar gender. Also, it is a fact that most of the children borrow names for their creations from the names of surrounding them people or from the cartoons they like. This phenomenon may show another important impact on children in developing language and communication skills because they get more linguistic practice during conversations with their imaginary friends than with friends in real life. In addition, it makes them to be more friendly and communicable with schoolmates in future. Talking and playing with unreal friends can practice...
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...The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber really caught my attention. I enjoyed this story because I can relate to it very well. I also seem to day dream a lot and lose myself in my own thoughts about great fantasies. The imagination that Mitty showed in the story was amazing and very detailed, helping to paint an excellent image of what Mitty was thinking of. This story was also funny in the sense that he was always getting into trouble for letting his mind wonder off. His wife continuing to nag him about making sure he knew what was needed at the grocery store. It also shows that even though Mitty is supposed to act like an adult and live a life free of imagination he still drifts off into his wondrous day dreams on a regular basis, and people often criticize him about it. The emotion that best describes how I felt reading this story was joy. I was able to relate to the main character because of what we have in common. His ability to get lost in his mind and create other places and times with such detail is excellent. It helped me to see the joyous side in having a vivid imagination and the different types and degrees you can go into with day dreaming. “He wore his full-dress uniform, with the heavily braided white cap pulled down rakishly over one cold gray eye” is some of the descriptions that I could relate to because seeing this made me remember my time with the Air Force and seeing all the officers in charge in their dress uniforms. I cannot recall...
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...authors believe that the key factor of Pixar’s great creativity is the fact that everyone thinks like a child and acts like a child within the organization. In fact, Pixar will inspire the readers to (Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson, 2010): - Dream like a child. - Believe in your playmates. - Dare to jump in the water and make waves. - Do unleash your childlike potential. The book is then divided into four parts and deal with the four main components that will help readers enhance their creativity: Dream, believe, dare and do. The first part talks about a supportive organization, where leadership plays a great role. Then, collaboration is the company is touched on. After, three aspects of creativity that are risk-taking, play and imagination are dealt with. Finally, the key points to create a “playground” similar to Pixar’s have been introduced. In order to review the book we will analyze the four sections of it, namely Dream, believe, dare, do. In addition, we will relate the book to...
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...Children & Television Elizabeth Quinta COM/156 6/12/2015 Suzann Connell Children & Television In today’s society television has become a crucial part of everyone’s everyday lives, but most of all in the lives of the children around the world. As we have noticed, in these days there are many families all around the world that have or have had access to a television. Television is very dominant and efficient phenomenon, which can sway the future of the children in many any part of the world that we live in. Children mimic what they hear and see on the television. Therefore don’t underestimate, nevertheless of the situation that the child may be watching something that is not age appropriate for them. There are many influences categorized as right or wrong for the developing mind of the child. Parents and guardians have an imperative role in the lives of the child’s program watching, how long they can sit in front of the TV. All these issues are important in determining the child's future within any environment that they might be in. That is pure television violence is influencing children, although that does not mean we could not influence them into not being violent. First Level One heading Start body of paper – topic 1. Indent paragraphs. Level Two heading (if needed) for paragraph Paragraph that continues topic 1 – new idea. Level Two heading (if needed) for paragraph Paragraph that continues topic 1 – new idea. Second Level One heading Start body...
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...Creativity as I see it By Mohiuddin Abro BS35 2936 (Note – The following account is that of a personal nature. The things I find “creative” may differ from that of the reader) Creativity. It’s a word that has more or less fascinated my whole life. Oxford dictionary defines being “creative” as involving the use of imagination or original ideas in order to create something new. If that is to be believed, then our childhood is the most imaginative phase of our lives. I was born on 14th of August 1988 to a Sindhi father and a mother migrated from Aligarh, India. In a time when preference was given on one’s own ethnic group, my parents were innovators and trend-setters. It was the mixing of two very different and unique worlds, brought together by a bond of marriage. I like to think that this affected me and my outlook on life – because even to this day, I feel I have an identity crisis in progress. I remember hearing the word creative for the first time when I was around 8-10 years old. And I didn’t get it. I didn’t get what It wholly means, what it denotes to. Maybe I was at a tender age to fully grasp the concept, but gradually, I began to associate it with a medium. And that was films. Creativity and films are words that I have always connected together; because it was through movies I understood what creativity can aspire to be. The art of making films, and watching them at a film theatre. It’s the film plots that can guide us out of our lives and provide supreme escapism...
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...from inventers, world figures, celebrities, and designers. One creative person that catches an interest is Isaac Mizrahi who is a clothing designer. He is known for his extraordinary clothing designs and extravagant fashion shows. This paper will include the stages of his creativity, his imagination and curiosity, and society benefits as a whole. One of the most asked questions that creator’s get is where their creativity does come from. In the 2008 “Ted Talk” Isaac Mizrahi gives many examples of how he gets his creativity, one of the most interesting part is that he follows people whom he thinks are interesting. He explains how it may seem weird to others, of course following people, but he finds something interesting like a pair of shoes takes a picture and runs with the creative design. He talks about how he sees colors from a movie and an idea pops into his mind where he finds a vison for a clothing design and creates it. Another stage of his creativity is very common among most creators; he includes how he stays awake at night with an idea and thinks and thinks on how to create something extraordinary. Where does the imagination come from; how can this one person have such an imagination to create an entire clothing line from just one thought. Isaac talks about how many of his ideas come from mistakes and tricks of the eye. He may see a blouse and for a moment imagine that he is somewhere and run with that idea and change the entire piece. Isaac mentions that when he has...
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...The Art of Seeing Essay Nick Cave Soundsuit Mixed Media Page 184 Soundsuit, created by Nick Cave in 2009 resembles a cloud of ceramic birds that surrounds a body suit of crocheted yarn pieces. The structure that resides on the crocheted body suit resembles the flight pattern of the birds, some delicate lines with beads and others strong, steel like structure protruding upwards, almost looking like tree branches or roots of a tree if looked at upside down. The body suit has various colors although keeping a palate of reds, oranges, pinks, black and white. The patterns resemble flowers of various types and sizes breaking the monotony of matching patterns. The various materials used in Soundsuit work together to create an egg-shaped sphere around the crocheted body suit giving the viewer a feel of surrounding; noise of movement. The strong predominant vertical metal branches that hold the ceramic birds symbolize branches, especially since the artist selected ceramic birds that are perched. Not one bird is alike, some with extended wings and others seeming to take flight; the sound of flapping wings is almost audible. The crocheted body suit has a feeling of randomness, different flowers and symbols in different places in non-geometrical lines. The suite covers all body parts except the head and hands as if the suit would give a person a different identity. It almost feels as if this body suit is closely related to nature. Soundsuit is uniform in the sense that it contains...
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...A wilderness emergency could possibly happen to anyone, anywhere. When confronted with an unexpected survival situation man has the potential to overcome many challenges, beat incredible odds, and come out a survivor. But just what is survival anyway? Survival is the art of surviving beyond any event. To survive means to remain alive; to live. Survival is taking any given circumstance, accepting it, and trying to improve it, while sustaining your life until you can get out of the situation. And most importantly, survival is a state of mind. Survival depends a great deal on a person's ability to withstand stress in emergency situations. Your brain is without doubt your best survival tool. It is your most valuable asset in a survival situation. It isn't always the physically strong who are the most effective or better at handling fear in emergency situations. Survival more often depends on the individual's reactions to stress than upon the danger, terrain, or nature of the emergency. To adapt is to live. Mental skills are much more important than physical skills in survival situations. A person's psychological reactions to the stress of survival can often make them unable to utilize their available resources. You most likely won't use your physical skills if you don't have a positive mental attitude. One definitely must be in the proper frame of mind to survive an unplanned survival situation. Attitude or psychological state is most certainly number one. It is undoubtedly...
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