In my opinion, the concept of sublime has to do with the representation of power through using techniques that have gothic, fearful, and clarity elements in it. We encounter the sublime everyday in our life through our imagination.

Sometimes our mind can go beyond what we thought. Literature is all about using your imagination to portray or explain a phenomenon that happens in reality. This happens so that it can make the work more interesting for the reader.

During Romanticism, authors would use different elements in their works mostly religious that implied power and fear at the same time. They believed that when there is fear there is power. In everyday life we see politicians and people who know how to use their words and make them have a powerful meaning.

We encounter the sublime everyday in our life whether we are a religious person or no. One of the ways we encounter the sublime is when we think about death or when we loose somebody we loved. The thoughts that surround us cause us fear and pain. When we gather with friends and talk about supernatural things like ghost story telling, when we talk about the people who died or even death itself, we feel constant fear. Even when we look at the sky at night and we see the stars and the “milky way” it appears beautiful at first but if we stare at it for a long time and start thinking about our existence it starts getting scary and we feel fear.

In conclusion, the sublime is a concept that was used during the Romantic Period to portray power, fear and greatness and the same time. Its the relationship of mind and nature. One of the greatest authors that portrayed the sublime in the best way was Dante Alighieri in “Paradise, Inferno and Purgatory” where he combined different elements of Romanticism including the sublime and love.