ENGL 3251H Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Incest, Undressed, Kubla Khan
10 Dec 2015
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Art comes out of expressing desire, repression is against art. Schopenhauer world represented based on responsibility and will. Inside of order it is a place of contradictions. The romantic belief that you could never capture the dream. Getting into the unconscious making these people so modern. Pleasure-dome only taking up 11 lines at the top. Logos in imposed on chaos; also implies order. Earth is trying to breathe like giving birth. Woman is the spirit of the place. It is a mysterious source of generation and life. Emphasizing the dome of pleasure is a miracle device (just flowing there in the air) The supreme work of art dome of pleasure. Transcending all the horrors, but it is very fragile. Not believing that he is a great poet. The feeling of repression and failure that is the creative source for coleridge"s. The vision at the end is not the failure poet, but a mystical one.
