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Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burden of the mystery In which the heavy and weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened - William Wordsworth on Romanticism and the Sublime He tries to explain; The mind {tries} to grasp at something which it can make approaches but which it is incapable of attaining. In trying to grasp at this sublime idea, the mind loses consciousness, and the spirit is able to grasp the sublime - but it is only temporary. Wordsworth expresses the emotion that this elicits in his poem Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey:
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 00:16:59 +0000

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