2nd Semester Final: Creating and appreciating beauty

1.  “Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it”. Ferris - Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 1986
2. As i read it now, in the great silence of these distances, i am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life, even more than i was in Paris, where every thing echoes and fades away differently because of the excessive noise that makes Things tremble. Here, where i am surrounded by an enormous landscape, which the winds move across as they come from the seas, here i feel that there is no on anywhere who can answer for you those questions and feelings which, in depths, have a life of their own; for even the most articulate people are unable to help, since what words point to is so very delicate, is almost unsayable.
3. You are a practical man, Michele. Einstein gazes at the clouds thinking of his project. He wants to tell Besso about his dreams, but cannot bring himself to do it. I think you will succeed with your theory of time...
4. PUCK
   How now, spirit! whither wander you?
   FAIRY
   Over hill, over dale,
   Thorough bush, thorough brier,
   Over park, over pale,
   Thorough flood, thorough fire,
   I do wander every where,
   Swifter than the moon's sphere;
   And I serve the Fairy Queen,
   To dew her orbs upon the green.
   The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
   In their gold coats spots you see;
   Those be rubies, fairy favours,
   In those freckles live their savours. 
5. As my four years of high school education comes to a conclusions i am a very different person from the start of me entering this institution and now. I have gained abundant amount of information from the spectrum of math class to humanities. In humanities we stressed this semester on creating our own beauty. Beauty comes from creating like Einstein creating his theory. What i learned from this class is that you are happiest when you are creating. The struggles that Einstein faces and the accomplishments he faces gives him beauty. Beauty can also come from nature and observation. The fairies in Midsummer nights dream see magic as a thing of beauty. Beauty is everywhere you just have to stop and look around or you can miss it. 
6.  Good Will Hunting
7. .She walks in beauty, like the night
      Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
   And all that’s best of dark and bright
      Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
   Thus mellowed to that tender light
      Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
   
   
   One shade the more, one ray the less,
      Had half impaired the nameless grace
   Which waves in every raven tress,
      Or softly lightens o’er her face;
   Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
      How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
   
   
   And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
      So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
   The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
      But tell of days in goodness spent,
   A mind at peace with all below,
      A heart whose love is innocent!

8. One just comes to enjoy them more and more, becomes more and more grateful, and somehow better and simpler in one's vision, deeper in ones faith in life, happier and greater in the way one lives.

9. Don't Observe yourself too closely. Don'y be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame at your past, which naturally has a share in everything that now meets you.

10.  There are two types of people who are not aware of the beauties in life. One type of people are rushing though life to get to the next place or get the next thing done. The other type are always looking but they can not find it because they are looking for a single absolute "beauty".  They search all their lives searching for something "better." A prime example is Will from Good Will Hunting. He has been trying to "hold out for something better" He uses that quote multiple times through out the movie. Like how it is summed up in A Letters to a young poet, and She walks in beauty by Lord Byron, it is not a singular beauty that people should search for, beauty is around them. Sometimes it might seem like you are seeing it all at once and it is too much, you should never make quick conclusions ( as quoted from Letters to a Young Poet), but taking the time to appreciate it makes it worth while. 

11. American Beauty

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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet

Are of imagination all compact.

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,

That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,

Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;

And as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a name.

Such tricks hath strong imagination,

That if it would but apprehend some joy,

It comprehends some bringer of that joy;

Or in the night, imagining some fear,

How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

14. In the first week of school, we were assigned to read Mr. Allens letter to the students. In this letter he described about his experience with Pollock and his fear. The first time he looked at the painting he couldn't understand what was so amazing about the painting. He couldn't see the beauty in Pollock. At first i too did not under what was so amazing about the artwork. I just saw a mess, after i learned about the painting and about the painter it was then i understood it more. The beauty came from the chaos and the artistic action of Pollock's paint brush. This was the same case with reading Shakespeare. I simply did not understand and was blinded from the beauty. The artistic language in Shakespeare makes it beautiful to read. From this class i learned not to jump to conclusions when appreciating beauty. I must give it some time and try to understand the work. Especially this last semester i learned how to create my own art and to give everything an open mind.

Works Cited

1.Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Dir. John Hughes. Perf. Matthew Broderick. N.d.
2.Rilke, Rainer Maria, Letters to a Young Poet. New York: Norton, 1984. Print.(42)
3.Lightman, Alan P. Einstein's Dreams. New York: Pantheon, 1993. Print.(114)
4.  Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer's Night Dream. Clayton, DE: Prestwick House, 2005. Kindle Version.(2.1.1)
5. Reflection
6. Im holding out for something better. YouTube. YouTube, 22 Dec. 2011. Web. 29 May 2013.
7.Byron , George Lord Gordon.She Walks in Beauty
8.Rilke, Rainer Maria, Letters to a Young Poet. New York: Norton, 1984. Print.(21)
9. Rilke, Rainer Maria, Letters to a Young Poet. New York: Norton, 1984. Print.(94).
10. Reflection 
11.So much Beauty in the World. YouTube. YouTube, 22 Dec. 2011. Web. 29 May 2013.
12. Yalebooks.files.wordpress
13.Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer's Night Dream. Clayton, DE: Prestwick House, 2005. Kindle Version.(5.1)
14. Reflection