Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgangvon Goethe

• Faust

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Romanticism

• Intensity
• Innovation
• Irreverence
• Insubordination
• Individualism
• Imagination

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Modern Myths

• Don Juan
• Faust
• Don Quixote
• Robinson Crusoe
• Great Expectations

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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction
and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate,
are necessary to human existence. William
Blake
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Synthesis
Hegels dialectic
Thesis
Antithesis
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Director Poet
Time Permanence
World Spirit
Sight Hearing
Food Poetry
Society Nature
Deeds Words
Other Self
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Director Clown Poet
Time Moment Permanence
World Truth Spirit
Sight Experience Hearing
Food Drink Poetry
Society Love Nature
Deeds Imagination Words
Other Youth Self
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Job
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Felix culpa

• As in felicitous and Feliz Navidad
• As in culprit

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Cyclicality
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Romantic Despair
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I heard the sky-lark warbling in the sky And I
bethought me of the playful hare Even such a
happy Child of earth am I Even as these
blissful creatures do I fare Far from the world
I walk, and from all care But there may come
another day to me Solitude, pain of heart,
distress, and poverty.
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Erlkönig (Erlking)

• has done me harm
• hat mir ein Leids getan
• the child was dead
• das Kind war tot