Thursday, October 30, 2008
Meaning vs.Emotion
After writing my third essay i began to wonder, can anything have a meaning without emotion? Are meaning and emotion inseperable? I believe they are intertwined and this is how: Meaning can either be possitive or negative, basically saying it is depicting happiness or sadness. Meaning can't be objective because it's a poet or painter's personal interpretation of the way life is and how they wan't the viewer or reader to understand their point of view, or challenge it. Art depicts numerous emotions: happiness, sadness, excitement, fear, lust, etc. So how can someone not find emotion in meaning? For instance, the painting "Mourning Picture". It is depicting happiness since the girl is in the sunlight and with a lamb, which symbolizes the heavenly father, and the parents are grieving in shadow; which is saying that although people die, for instance the daughter, they should not GRIEVE for she is in heaven and instead they should be in PEACE. So the meaning depicts happiness and sadness.
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that is really interesting. i never looked at it quite that way, but now that you mention it it does seem that meaning and emotion are linked. the more i look at the stories we read like cask of amontillado and the necklace it is clear that you may be right.
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