scholarly journals Fantasy of Nature in River: A Tread into the Aesthetic Landscape of Ted Hughes

Aesthetics studies the principles of beauty and examines the reader‟s affective domain response to an object. As a philosophical approach to art and life, aesthetics has adoration for beauty as its chief value. Thus, aesthetics and beauty correspond to beget a real aesthetic resonance in poetry. Poetry and fantasy are interwoven to disseminate pulchritude in all the feasible ways through language and content. Poets have their own landscape to exhibit their alluring portraits; likewise, Ted Hughes has his own style of expressing aesthetic fantasies which have mesmerized millions of readers. The present research paper aims to explore the fantasies of Ted Hughes with reference to the poems of River. The objective of the present research paper is to elicit the alluring landscapes sketched in the selected poems of Ted Hughes‟ River. Hughes is popularly designated as a nature poet and is appreciated for depicting multiple faces of nature. This research paper makes an aesthetic analysis of the selected poems of River to unveil the imbibed values of aestheticism such as „appreciation of nature‟ and employing „imaginative faculty‟. The selected poems for the present research are “Salmon Eggs”, “Japanese River Tales”, “Whiteness”, “Ophelia” and “Dee”

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 367-374
Author(s):  
Sascha Rashof

Peter Sloterdijk’s Der Ästhetische Imperativ – Schriften zur Kunst is a collection of essays addressing a range of topics in the aesthetic realm, including sound, light, product design, cities and architecture, the human (artificial) condition, museums, action cinema and the art system. Via a ‘media’-anthropological, historico-philosophical approach, he critiques the ‘aesthetic imperative’ of (post-)modern design civilizations by re-evaluating the analogy between universal ethics and aesthetics after Kant. In this way, Sloterdijk argues for a more singular, intensive, socially and environmentally responsible aesthetic experience.


2020 ◽  
pp. 26-34
Author(s):  
Irina A. Shishkova

The article considers three poems dedicated to birds by outstanding British poets: Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes and Charles Tomlinson. The article notes the significant influence of flora and fauna on the process of understanding the diverse phenomena of reality of the authors. Their value orientations are compared. The similarities and distinctions of poetic directions of poets are traced and features of their art world are revealed. A comparison is made between national components in the works of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes as representatives of the „Movement” and the desire to expand the poetic horizons of Charles Tomlinson, due to the influence of American modernism. The aim of the work is to analyze the interrelation of ideological, stylistic and phonic levels of a poetic work (M. L. Gasparov) for the most complete embodiment of the author’s idea and the realization of the aesthetic function of influence on the reader.


Author(s):  
MOHD SAWARI RAHIM ◽  
SURAYA HANI ZAKARIA

Kertas penyelidikan ini membincangkan tentang nilai estetika pada sesebuah tepak sirih dari sudut reka bentuk serta motif rekacoraknya. Tepak sirih yang terdiri daripada cembul-cembul, bekas sirih, kacip dan gobek tampil dalam pelbagai gaya dan citarasa membuktikan keunikan, kreativiti dan daya fikir masyarakat Melayu terdahulu. Proses penciptaannya diungkapkan menerusi garapan keindahan flora dan fauna yang hidup di alam sekeliling ini. Penyelidikan yang dijalankan ini berbentuk deskriptif, hasil dari kajian lapangan dan pustaka bagi mengutip data. Maka, kaedah kualitatif digunakan bagi tujuan mengumpul segala maklumat yang diperoleh. Kaedah temubual, pemerhatian, dokumentasi dan rakaman visual dapat menjelaskan lagi tentang segala maklumat yang diperlukan. Kerelevanan kajian ini sangat perlu memandangkan zaman kini serba maju dan canggih menyaksikan golongan muda dan pewaris lebih cenderung mengagungkan budaya barat dan teknologi gajet. Mereka janggal untuk mengenali budaya dan adat Melayu warisan nenek moyang sendiri. Maka, destinasi hasil peninggalan warisan tersebut berakhir di galeri dan muzium yang kurang impaknya kepada golongan tersebut. Justeru itu, tepak sirih dilihat sebagai satu set kesenian yang dapat melambangkan ketinggian estetika dan kesantunan berbudaya masyarakat Melayu. Ia mementingkan kehidupan bersatu menerusi nilai, adat dan budaya berperaturan, kekal dan mekar sepanjang zaman menggenggam erat pepatah Melayu lama iaitu “Tak Lapuk Dek Hujan dan Tak Lekang Dek Panas”.   This research paper discusses the aesthetic value of an object called "Tepak Sireh" from the perspective of its design and pattern motifs. Consisting of betel-Handset, container betel, incisors and gobek, a Tepak sireh comes in various styles and tastes. This indicates the uniqueness, creativity and energy of the past thinking of Malay Society. The process of its creation is revealed through the application of the beauty of the flora and fauna that live in this environment. The qualitative research methodology was adopted. Data were collected by conducting interviews, observations, documentation and visual recordings The relevance of this study is crucial given that the Malay culture has not received as much attention as the other cultures from the youngsters.. This has left the legacy in galleries and museums hence inevident impact on the group. Therefore, Tepak Sireh can be viewed as a set of art that symbolizes the highly aesthetical and modestly cultured Malay community. It is concerned with life united by values, customs and culture of rules, that stay forever adhering to the old Malay proverb which is “Tak Lapuk Dek Hujan dan Tak Lekang Dek Panas”.


Author(s):  
Volodymyr Hladyshev ◽  
Nataliia Daskal

The creativity of the award winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize in the domain of literature Dmytro Kremin (1953-2019) is a vivid phenomenon of modern Ukrainian literature and culture. His poetic heritage has a special meaning after the poet passed away in May of this year. Now it is worth to be considered and conceived as a kind of his testament left to descendants by the outstanding master of the imaginative word. Dmytro Kremin`s legacy has always been in the centre of attention of critical literary practice, his poems evoked a contradictory attitude towards himself, thanks to it the critics` reviewers were so brilliant and emotional. But after the poet`s death, there is a need for a literary study of his heritage and a conclusion to the study of the work of an outstanding poet on a qualitatively new level. Among the poet’s many works, the poem holds a special place. It was created before long after Ukraine gained independence. Appeal to the people and the country`s history, Dmytro Kremin comprehends the origins of their heavy fate. The philosophical approach to understanding concrete historical phenomena allows the poet to look profoundly into the past, to define the influence on the present, and the origins of our young state`s problems. A wide range of historical figures, to which the author refers, characterizes the history of Ukraine in its most noticeable facts. The analysis of the poem is philological. The figurative system of the work is perceived in the unity of form and content. Thus it is possible to identify the aesthetic singularity of the work and its patriotic directivity. The study proves that the appeal of the patriotic poet to history should be received as a kind of poetic admonition, an attempt to draw attention to the tragic mistakes for the people`s fate to avoid them in the contemporary history of Ukraine. The poet’s call to live for the sake of the Motherland, to conscientious service to the country and people reflects his moral and aesthetic position and becomes his contribution to the development of the country. We consider that the article can be useful for researchers, lecturers, school teachers, students, and everyone interested in the creativity of the outstanding Ukrainian poet.


EMPIRISMA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lutfi Rahmatullah

This paper aims to explore the significance of ‘language’ in shaping human civilization; even God chose ‘language’ as a medium of communication with His people. It is undeniable that ‘Arabic’ language is the language of theal-Qur’an. Departing from this, this paper will study the aesthetic structures of the Qur’anic language because the language contains divine, absolute dimension of culture and humanity. Using a philosophical approach, this paper will describe the significance of human language existance, while the structure of the aesthetic language of the al-Qur’an.Keywords: Bahasa, Struktur al-Qur’an, Estetika


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Muslim Abbas Eidan Al-Ta'an

How does music transcend individual experience? Is music the filter to purify everything? How does everything in the poet become music? Such questions are raised, now and then, by the conscious reader of poetry in general and that of the Australian poet Thomas W. Shapcott in particular. My present research-paper attempts to present an answer for these questions via probing the individuality of Shapcott's poetic experience and how does the poet's personal and experimental musicality as an artistic motif and aesthetic perspective play a key role in purifying language of its lies and its daily impurities. In the first place, my account is apt to find an aesthetic meaning for the action of transcending the individual experience in selected poems written by Shapcott. The philosophical and ritual thought of musicality is interplayed with the aesthetic power of poetry. Both aesthetic energies stem from the individual experience of the poet to transcend the borders of individuality and being absorbed and saturated in the wide pot of human universality. In other words, the poem after being filtered and purified musically and aesthetically is no longer an individual experience owned by its producer only, rather it becomes a human experience for its conscious readers. Music as a motif and meaning, regardless of its technical significance, is controversial in Shapcott's poetic diction. Music, here, is not a mere artistic genre; rather it is a ritualistic and philosophical thought. The paper is to investigate how Shapcott's musicality is constructed on aesthetics of balance and conformity in poetry and life.


Author(s):  
Nina Gusakova ◽  
Taisiya Khvostova

The purpose of the article. To highlight the specific features of the stage work of the outstanding theatrical figure B. Stupka and to characterize the peculiarities of the techniques and methods of his acting skills. The methodology of research of Bohdan Stupka's stage activity is based on: analytical method - for the elaboration of culturological, art and theatrical scientific literature; typological method - to identify and determine the techniques of his acting skills; art history method - determining the contribution of B. Stupka to the development of Ukrainian drama theater and stylistic specifics of its acting art, the individuality of artistic search, the identification of artistic and aesthetic features of his stage work; cognitive method - to substantiate the uniqueness of the artist's acting skills, to identify and outline the specifics of his individual creative methods in the process of working on the artistic image. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the comprehensive analysis of the stage work of B. Stupka as one of the leading Ukrainian theater masters of the late XX - early XXI century. The peculiarities of the techniques and methods of his acting skills are described for the first time. Conclusions. As a result of the analysis of the research it can be concluded that the special, original, specific features of B. Stupka's work were the observance of key criteria of the aesthetic value of the production; deep penetration into the psychology of the character and its full disclosure; philosophical approach to understanding the literary source; the true nature of the feelings and way of life of the character; endowing the character with rigidly organized plasticity.


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