Pugh ENGL-2320-J01 World Literature II Instructor- Dr. Brandi Leonard Prompt 1 1. Discuss the significance of Beethoven's deafness and how it affected his ability to produce art. Could Beethoven's hearing loss be seen as an "albatross"? Why or why not? Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, and was baptized on Dec. 17, 1770. There has never been any type of authentic record or file as to when he was actually born. Ludwig van Beethoven’s grandfather and father functioned as court musicians in Bonn. Beethoven’s father, who was a singer, provided Beethoven with a lot of his early musical teaching. Beethoven didn’t have the best education, but he studied violin, French horn, and piano, and before he was even 12 years old, Beethoven …show more content…
All appearances of the ordinary world from the highest mountain peak to the most delicate little flower. Wordsworth elevated these thoughts and fervent emotions in the people who perceive these appearances. Wordsworth repeatedly highlights the significance of nature to a person’s brain and religious development. Therefore, William Wordsworth I think strongly expresses his emotions and feelings through nature. William Blake in the Songs of Innocence brings out the simple fears and hopes that tell the lives of children and traces their conversion as the child grows up to be an adult. In William Blake’s poems he tries to draw attention to the encouraging aspects of a person’s ordinary human understanding, while others have a more serious stance, prior to the corruption and distortion of experience. This mixture of the conventional mixed with the new is consistent with Blake’s continuous interest in reassessing and reframing the expectations of humans thought process and social behavior. Therefore, William brings out the emotions through social behavior and how humans act. Emily Dickinson is a very special writer because everything she writes are often parts of the topography of her own psyche. Emily likes to explore her own feelings with meticulous and often raw honesty, but never loses sight of the widespread graceful poetic application. Emily Dickinson greatest part about her is that she writes about the facts and details of her own life and emotions and how it relates to her and other people, which is how she brings out the emotions in her poems. Beethoven exhibited encouraging emotions in his music. A good example is Ode to Joy in his Ninth Symphony, where the poetic adoration of peace and of our common comradeship and civilization are magnificently and powerfully put in musical terms. During Beethoven’s last eight years of his life, he was completely deaf, yet he did not
Frederic Chopin, the Polish composer and pianist, was born on March 1,1810, according to the statements of the artist himself and his family, but according to his baptismal certificate, which was written several weeks after his birth, the date was 22 February. His birthplace was the village of Zelazowa Wola, part of the Duchy of Warsaw.
Johannes Brahms was born on Tuesday 7th may 1833, in the city of Hamburg the birthplace also of Mendelssohn. Johann Brahms was himself a musician, and played the double bass for a time at the Karl Schultze Theatre, and later in the Stadttheater orchestra. In 1847 Johannes attended a good Burgerschule (citizens? school), and in 1848 a better, that of one Hoffmann. When he was eight years old his father requested the teachers to be very easy with him because of the time that he must take for his musical studies.
From childhood he was unlike those around him. He went to school to study art and found his love of poetry. From his early childhood, Blake spoke of having visions. He spoke of seeing God and the Angels. He married his with Catherine Boucher in 1782. His brother, Robert died, but this is where Blake got a lot of inspiration for his work. In 1789 Blake wrote and illustrated the popular Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience in 1794. His poetry was extremely non-conformist and focused on imagination, rather than reason. Both works have many common parallels and themes. His poetry also deals with the common aspect of a romanticism work; it has moments of sin, suffering and salvation. In Songs of Innocence, The Chimney Sweeper, it is a heartbreaking poem about the young children that were forced into doing labor as chimneysweepers. Mostly because they were the only ones small enough to fit in the spaces and they were sold into that work. It was damaging and cruel how they treated these children and Blake writes about it in such a powerful way. In the first stanza alone the reader learns about the difficult life and the suffering this child has had to overcome, “When my mother died when I was young, my father sold me while yet my tongue…so, your Chimney’s I sweep and in soot I sleep.” (Songs of Innocence) This poor child is portrayed so innocently and gentle, yet leads this suffering unfortunate life. People treated
Antonio Vivaldi had an interesting life during this time period, his childhood, his outstanding music and unique style, and influence were special for this time. Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born in 1678 in Venice, Italy. Vivaldi's family was religious, so they had him baptized as soon as possible. His first baptism was done by a midwife who was told that Antonio's life was in danger. The baptism occurred immediately after his birth, this may have been because of his poor health or because the mom thought he was in danger because of an earthquake that happened earlier that day.
This was the first article I read about Deaf Art, and it brings multiple interesting aspects to someone only learning the surface of the meaning behind Deaf Art; and the people who create these pieces. What I find interesting is the two artworks the author chose as their favorite. The first piece by Chuck Baird showed a visual representation of the sign “art” with multiple art tools surrounding. The second piece is created by Betty G. Miller who expresses the oppression Deaf people face, hands trapped by handcuffs and the fingers seem to be broken. Both pieces have positive and negative sides behind their creations and give insight to the Hearing
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in the town of Bonn, Germany on December 16 of 1770. Bonn is located in western Germany on the Rhine River. Beethoven showed an affinity for music at an early age. His father, Johann, taught Ludwig to play the piano as well as the violin. Johann did this in hopes that his son would become a prodigy, and then reach fame like Wolfgang A. Mozart. Unfortunately though Beethoven mother died when he was seventeen. In addition to his mother’s death Beethoven’s father developed an alcohol problem. To escape these problems Beethoven found a job tutoring the two children of the von Breuning family. This relationship proved to be beneficial to Beethoven. The matriarch of the family happened to be well liked in the town of Bonn, so she introduced Beethoven to a few important people.
Ludwig van Beethoven is who everyone thinks of first when someone asks if you know any composer from classical music. Beethoven changed the sound of music in the early 1800’s from bland and meaningless, to exciting and heartfelt. You felt Beethoven’s pain through his music. Was Beethoven’s deafness to blame for his spark of genius that changed the course of classicism, to romanticism? Was it not for his lonesome solitude, and lack of hearing that drove him to create the masterpieces that are still resonating through current times?
What I found most interesting about Jarashow’s presentation were the two opposing views: Deaf culture versus medical professionals. Within the Deaf culture, they want to preserve their language and identity. The Deaf community wants to flourish and grow and do not view being deaf as a disability or being wrong. Jarashow stated that the medical field labels Deaf people as having a handicap or being disabled because they cannot hear. Those who are Deaf feel as though medical professionals are trying to eliminate them and relate it to eugenics. It is perceived that those in that field are trying to fix those who are Deaf and eliminate them by making them conform to a hearing world. Those within the Deaf community seem to be unhappy with devices such
Beethoven was born on December 17, 1770 in Bann, Germany. From a young age Beethoven was involved with music because he came from three generations of musicians. He received instruction from his father on the piano and violin. One of his earliest concerts was in front of his father’s peers against his will. Beethoven had a fiery temper and was somewhat introverted in his school years. Beethoven went to school until the age of ten. At this time his family’s finances prevented his family from affording the education that he needed. In July of 1787, Beethoven’s life was further thrown into disarray with the death of his mother. Despite Beethoven’s misfortune he would still achieve monumental amounts of success while in Vienna. His success can be attributed to the fact that he crafted relatio...
Believed to be born on December 16, 1770 Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. Born to Johann van Beethoven, a musician of Bonn and Maria Magdalena Keverich. At a young age, Beethoven took an interest in music, which his father would teach him every day and night. It is speculated that Beethoven’s father was a harsh instructor, forcing Beethoven to often play the piano with tears in his eyes. However, Beethoven had other teachers as well. Gilles van den Eeden, Tobias Friedrich Pfeiffer whom taught Beethoven the piano, and Franz Rovantini whom trained him on the violin. All of who saw Beethoven’s musical talent at his very young age. Beethoven’s father, aware of young Mozart’s success, attempted to exploit his son as a child prodigy as well. Having Beethoven give his first public performance at the age of seven.
Blake also uses sound to deliver the meaning to the poem. The poem starts off with "My mother groaned! my father wept." You can hear the sounds that the parents make when their child has entered this world. Instead of joyful sounds like cheer or cries of joy, Blake chooses words that give a meaning that it is not such a good thing that this baby was brought into this world. The mother may groan because of the pain of delivery, but she also groans because she knows about horrible things in this world that the child will have to go through. The father also weeps for the same reason, he knows that the child is no longer in the safety of the womb, but now is in the world to face many trials and tribulations.
One of our greatest fears is the fear of death. Immortality is something any of us would take in a heartbeat, so we do not have to face death. But this is something that we cannot run away from. Mortality is an unpleasant thought that sits in the back of our minds form our day to day lives. Yet, this fear is something that is developed more over time as we grow older. Children believe that the world is such a wonderful place, they fell invincible. They also have wonderful creative skills and imaginations which is often revealed to us when they can play one game for hours at one time. Yet, as a child ages, this imagination and creativity can disappear. This is what William Wordsworth is terrified of. Wordsworth is an English poet as well as his colleague Samuel Taylor Coleridge published the first edition of Lyrical Ballads and it changed everything as mentioned Evelyn Toynton, “In early 1798, Coleridge and a little-known poet named William Wordsworth decided to publish a joint volume of their poems.” (Toynton, Evelyn). William expressed this fear of premature mortality of the imagination in each of his works, Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, The Prelude, The World is Too Much with Us, and London, 1802.
William Blake was born in 1757 and died in 1827 after living a very long, happy, and stable life; as opposed to many of the other important Romantic poets of his time. He had very strong Christian beliefs but wasn’t religious, which seemed to come up frequently in his writing, and he believed that “imagination is the doorway to the infinite.” His two major works, The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience, were based on the two contrary states of the human soul (Marshall). These two ideals, and also Blake’s definitions of “innocence” and “experience,” are imperative to understanding the meaning behind each poem (Ashok). Blake believed that innocence was “a state of genuine love, naïve trust, and unquestionable belief” while experience was the “profound disillusionment with human nature and society” (Marshall). “The Divine Image” from The Songs of Innocence is the key to interpreting “A Divine Image” from The Songs of Experience. When looking at the two poems it’s obvious that they are directly related to each other.
William Blake was one of England’s greatest writers (Tejvan) in the nineteenth century, but his brilliancy was not noticed until after he was deceased. Blake was very much a free spirit who often spoke his mind and was very sensitive to cruelty. At the age of twenty five he married a woman named Catherine Boucher. They created a book of all Blake’s poems called Songs on Innocence, which was not very popular while he was alive. On the other hand Blake’s other book of poems, Songs of Experience, were much more popular. These two collections are so magnificent because it is two different forms of writing successfully written by one man. Two major poems written by William Blake were “The Tyger” and “The Lamb”. The Lamb is from Songs of Innocence while The Tyger is from Songs of Experience, they may share different perspectives on the world yet they both complement one another very well. Blake believed that life could be viewed from two different perspectives, those being innocence and experience. To Blake, innocence is not better than experience. Both states have their good and bad sides. The positive side of innocence is joy and optimism, while the bad side is naivety. The negative side of experience is cynicism, but the good side is wisdom (Shmoop Editorial Team). The Tyger and The Lamb are two completely different styles of poems yet it wouldn’t have the same affect on a reader if one poem didn’t exist.
Although both Blake and Wordsworth show childhood as a state of greater innocence and spiritual vision, their view of its relationship with adulthood differs - Blake believes that childhood is crushed by adulthood, whereas Wordsworth sees childhood living on within the adult. In the William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience, the vision of children and adults is placed in opposition to one another. Blake portrays childhood as a time of optimism and positivity, of heightened connection with the natural world, and where joy is the overpowering emotion. This joyful nature is shown in Infant Joy, where the speaker, a newborn baby, states “’I am happy, Joy is my name.’” (Line 4-5).