Frankenstein

It is a very interesting novel in which is discussed the theme of power, knowledge, pregnancy, moral values, responsibility, etc. According to the article “The Birth of a Monster” is crucial the theme pregnancy as a women’s fear factor. Here is shown this topic in relationship with the author Mary Shelley, who had a lot of problems during her nurturing. In fact she lost two babies.
In addition, power and knowledge are quite dense topics to discuss about. This is because Victor Frankenstein believed that he had an unlimited power and he could challenge God’s creation. Therefore, he created this creature which once he saw it he rejected immediately. There is no parental responsibility at all and the creature started to “growing up” alone. While this monster begin to acquire knowledge it started to realize how different is from the rest of the humanity and therefore rejected for being such a creature.
Another valid topic to discuss from the novel is what the limits are for knowledge? Is it really legal that someone play with a child’s life? Well, this monster wasn’t a child but it needed love as the other child have. Nowadays, there are lots of experiments including human cloning which is something similar to what the novel represents, and one of the points to consider is the human power of destroying himself in his search or ambition for new discoveries.

Existential Problems on Keats’ Life

On Keats’ sonnets is clear that his own life experiences are taken and written. That is one of the romantic characteristics we can find. Also we find that the use of image “vision of the sky” represents the sense of connection with nature.
I think that the sonnets show how he lived with so much pain that he considered himself as a weak person”. In the same way these sonnets express an image of death as a form of escape of that reality. I imagined because of Keats’ pain.
These sonnets represent an idea of opposition. Because he describes some interesting places but he is not feeling quite well. It is like he is not totally complete. There is also present the idea of heart vs brain.

Coleridge's Kubla Khan : The Intellectual Journey

Coleridge’s Kubla Khan starts with an image of nature. It represents harmonious landscapes of a wild panorama and it riches a state of pleasure as the first stanza goes by.

Undoubtedly this piece of poetry tries to awake our inner and pure emotions. As the poems lapses one begins to feel immerse into the poem, into the images it reflects, and unconsciously in the very same picture. Imagination and emotions are closely linked and even though reason is not part of the poem’s concept, it is also surrounding it not as something reasonable to believe in but it allows you to think and capture the intellectual beauty inside and through these bunch of passionate words.

What I most liked about this poem is that it touches you in a way you cannot easily describe. We could agree it is simple in the way it reflects the natural perspective already mentioned before, but that is the mayor issue: how something simple is so difficult to explain at the same time?