Der Erlkönig Essays

Franz Schubert, in my opinion, is considered as one of the last Classical Era composers and one of the pioneers of the Romantic Era composers. Schubert’s is an artist who devotes himself entirely to the arts, rather than chasing money and worldly gains. He has set a movement where many other composers would follow. In his 31 years of life he had written many works. He had more that 600 works on Lieder, 7 masses, 9 symphonies, including the Unfinished (No. 8,1822) and more. His famous piece, “Erlkönig”

Inhumane In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the theme man's inhumanity man relates to cruelty by calling them names, treating them horribly, and making them look the same. Even the Jews in the same barracks fight each other for food, and some people suffocate because they are laying on top of each other. In this quote “Faster you swine”(Wiesel 91). This quote shows the reader how the Nazis treated the Jews when they are marching to Gleiwitz. The barracks the Jews stayed in were unsanitary and

“Pieta” Pieta is a common theme of the Virgin Mary holding the lifeless body of Christ after his crucifixion that was common in paintings and sculptures in Germany and France. What Michelangelo did was incorporated those with elements with the naturalism of the High Renaissance. “Pieta” was initially created for a French Cardinal’s funeral but it also was a depiction of Michelangelo’s devotion to his faith. Michelangelo transformed marble into something that evokes contemplation and compassion. First

DEFINITION AND DESCRIPTION OF THE TASK The researcher will conduct an inflated balloon experiment. This experiment will allow the audience to understand clearly, "Charles' Law" and "Kinetic Molecular Theory" respectively. It will use extremely low and extremely high temperature so that the audience can evaluate the significant difference on the balloon size. The students shall be competent in presenting a laboratory experiment because it is one way to get involve in the lessons taught in school

In 1941, two years after the commencement of World War Two, Japan entered the war and invaded much of Southern Asia, capturing and imprisoning 22’000 Australians, who became POWs. One of those prisoners was Colonel Ernest Edward Dunlop, known to his fellow Australians as ‘Weary’. A medical officer responsible for over a thousand men on the Burma-Thai railway, who has been remembered because of his significant devotion to his fellow POWs and how he resisted Japanese brutality. Weary Dunlop’s significance

1. Blair Waldorf is a character in the tv show series, ‘Gossip Girl’. She and her mother are very wealthy and live in the upper east side of New York. Blair is spoiled and always gets what she wants; she will never take “no” for an answer. She is an overachiever and is always keeping her status as ‘Queen Bee’. Blair may be strong and bossy, but she is good at heart and sensitive at times. 2. Belle from ‘Beauty and the Beast is the protagonist. Belle is a very beautiful girl that lives in a small

ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE: EXAMINING WRIGHT’S PRINCIPLE OF DESIGN THROUGH FALLINGWATER AND THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM I. INTRODUCTION The architecture of the United States at the turn of the century – 1895 to 1905 – was at best, a collection of eclectic styles, with hardly one relating in anyway or sense to the ideal of the nation in which it was built. This was an era which regarded architecture as an application of fashion and styles, unrelated to structure or construction techniques. Yet it was also a

Le Corbusier has brought up the thoughts about architecture or revolution. When it comes to the modernist architecture, the view that being held is that modern architecture could solve social problems. Before World War I, two completely different ideas toward architecture has presented. On the one hand, the building wants to be unique and has the characteristics of capitalist urbanization. On the other side, there is a force that wants to emphasize on the uniformity and efficiency of architecture

Gottfried Semper was a major figure in the field of Interior designing. He was an architect and an art critic who contributed majorly to the study of interiors .He proposed his ideas and thoughts in his book, “Four elements of architecture”, in the year 1952 and it was a huge success. In his book, he developed the theory that origin of architecture could be dated back to the primitive era when human civilization was at its peak. As compared to the modern ideology that architecture

Deconstructive is an advancement of postmodern architecture that started in the late 1980s. The term De-constructionism is simply removing the essence of architecture. Constructivism is an abstract, mystical attitude that is aimed at creating a new reality or relatively over the reality. The main characteristic feature of de-constructivism is the idea of fragmentation. Moreover, another characteristic feature of de-constructivism is that it manipulates the surface and the cover of the construction

SITE ANALYSIS: Located in central Holland, in a small city called Utrecht, the Schroder Rietvield house lies in midst a neoclassical neighborhood that is mainly constructed of brick. This modernist house is merely an intruder to this rather homogeneous neighborhood, as it is clearly noticeable upon encountering it. I was startled when I encountered the Schroder house on Hendriklaan street as I felt like I was out of place. The Schroder housesits on the corner of Hendriklaan Street, facing a

Walter Gropius (Fig.1) was a German architect and the founder of Bauhaus; a German art school operated from 1919 to 1933 in Weimar. The institute was famous for the approach to design under the idea of creating a ‘total work of art’ in which all artistic medias, including architecture, fine art, industrial design, graphic design, typography and interior design would be combined. This style later became one of the most influential ideals in modern design. Gropius decided to leave Germany in 1934

Crane moved back to NewYork City In 1924 and resided in an apartment where just Roberlin, the man who devised the Brooklyn Bridge. One day, when he gazed the distance, the graceful shape of Brooklyn Bridge jumped into his eyes. So that inspired to eulogize the bridge. Although there exists sharp contrast on the theme between Bridge and Waste Land, on the structure, Crane made use of the composition of Eliot’s. At the beginning of the poem, the hero waked up in the dawn and strolled on the bridge

Wright, An American Architecture In the excerpts from "An American Architecture", Wright discusses the idea of continuity and interior spaces. In his introduction he states that continuity to him is something natural and truly organic architecture which can be achieved by the technology of machines or the natural technique. Additionally, Wright emphasizes on the idea of plasticity, the treatment of a building as a whole as seen in the work of Louis Sullivan, whose work he appreciates. Moreover,

In “Death in Venice”, there are several figures who work as triggers that seduced Aschenbach out from his self-restrained appreciation of beauty, and pushed him gradually into the realm of desire and unrestrained impulsions, which ultimately leaded him to his death. These figures are contextual symbols in this novella, and to Aschenbach, the encountering with each figure represented a new change to his path, and pushes him forward in his journey. The plot of this novella, which is Aschenbach’s journal

“A new architecture, the great building – these were the goals of Bauhaus education as formulated by Gropius in the Manifesto” (Droste, 2002, p.40). Geometric shapes and functional style the Bauhaus heralded the modern age of architecture and design. Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius and directed afterwards by Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe, the Bauhaus is today considered to be the most important schools of art, design, and architecture of the 20th century. Dessau in Germany, a two hour

1. Wiener Werkstätte was a sort of arts-and-crafts movement in the very beginning of the 20th century in Vienna bringing together artisans, artists and designers specializing in handmade metalwork, glassware, jewelry, ceramics, textile design and furnishings, whose main goal became to restore the values of handcraftsmanship in the industrial society. The Weiner Werkstätte masters took their inspiration mostly in Classical style employing simple rectilinear forms, clean lines and geometric patterns

From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe Tom Wolfe’s scathing short From Bauhaus to Our House obliterates modernist architecture in 111 pages of sarcasm, wit, and an unyielding frustration with everything modern. In the blink of an eye, American architecture transformed into a collection of glass, steel, and concrete boxes. The International style had the U.S. in it’s anti bourgeois grip, and was not letting go anytime soon. Wolfe, with his personal preference to ornate structures, detested modern

60 East 86th Street Peace and harmony come with the satisfaction of acquiring something that completes you. 60 East 86th Street provides fifteen full-floor condominium residences with the perfect location, within a walking distance from Central Park and Madison Avenue. Aiming to bring Elegance and modern surroundings to the Upper East Side Juul-Hansen is a nineteen-story Tower wrapped up on a dazzling grey lime façade whose accentuation oversize The Juliet balconies and casement windows. Cleverly

Modernist houses came from European architects (Spark 2008:186; Jordi 1963:177-187) that developed European theories of Modernism in the United States. Therefore architects like Philip Johnson, played a major role in introducing the works of Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius or Le Corbusier into the American society and architecture (Goldberger 2005). This Modernist built structures were characterized by the “open-planning and transparency and commitment to the spatial continuity between the outsides