RACHEL VILIUSIS
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Nov 01
The Seclusion of Women Throughout Time – Found in the MET
When visiting the MET this past week, I was blown away! I had visited many times when I was younger, as I went to public school here in the city, and the MET was always a popular class trip. Yet I hadn’t been to the museum in so long that I forgot how wonderful the …
Sep 29
The Sublime within “Mutability”
Percy Shelley “Mutability” “We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly! Yet soon Night closes round, and they are lost for ever…” (1-4) As Burke detailed the Sublime, he explained that the passions stirred by it are related to Astonishment. This struck …