Comparing and Contrasting the Sublime Essay -- Williams Shelley Trave

Comparing and Contrasting the Sublime What can be give tongue to about the princely? Class discussion led to the definition of sublime as the element found in go bad literature that is unexplainable. It is that component part of travel literature where the writer is in awe of his or her surroundings, where genius can be dangerous or where nature reminds a humankind being of their mortality. The term sublime has been applied to travel texts studied in class and it is hard not to compare the sublime from texts earlier in the term to the texts in the later part of the term. Two texts that can be compared in terms of the sublime are A Tour in Switzerland by Helen Williams and History of a Six Weeks Tour by bloody shame Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. There are similarities and differences found in both texts concerning individual perspectives of travel and the sublime. The main focus of this commentary will be compare and separate the perspectives of Williams and Shelley within their respective texts, the language of the sublime and the descriptions of the sublime. Both Shelley and Williams write from a personal perspective. Both travel to and make observations on the area that interests them. Williams travels to Switzerland opus Shelley travels through Geneva to Chamonix. In the introduction of Williamss text she immediately reveals the curtilage why she wishes to visit Switzerland while Shelley assumes that the reader recognizes that he is a traveler who wants to go from point A to point B. Williamss introduction reveals that she has already woolgather about what it would be like to visit Switzerland and she shares with her readers that I am going to compliments upon images of nature images of which the idea has so often swelled my imagination, but whic... ...ering more(prenominal) leeway to recogniseing the sublime. On a more personal note, comparing how Williams and Shelley write about the sublime has made the idea more shit in my mind on how to approach readings that contain the sublime, it is much easier to understand and furthermore, it offers more than one way of looking for and at the sublime. Works cited Extracts from The Shelleys at Chamonix1816. Mary Shelley and P. B. Shelley History of a Six Weeks Tour. capital of the United Kingdom T. Hookham, 1817. Romanticism The CD-ROM. Ed. By David Miall and Duncan Wu. Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 1997. Williams, Helen Maria. A Tour in Switzerland or, A view of the present disk operating system of the Government and Manners of those Cantons with comparative sketches of the present state of Paris. 2 Vols. London G. G. and J. Robinson, 1798. http//www.ualberta.ca/dmiall/Travel/Coxe-Williams.htm.