October 6 Class Discussion SUBLIME TO ME...

What is sublime to me as I read or watch some form of literature?
I am moved...I am not within myself, but I am with the story. I have emotional responses to what I am seeing and I don't try to rationalize what I am feeling about.
Today, actually I am quite tired. It's pretty much mid-terms and I am not feeling much about what I see or experience other than my studies and reviews...
But...here goes...
In different stages of my life, sublime would be quite oppositional. Well, what I mean is that my frame of mind has a direct effect on what transports me...what is the vehicle for removing my focus from myself and to greater, more important beautiful ideas.
I hear songs from the 1970's and I am immediately taken back to a specific memory of that time...even just historically. "A,B,C" by The Jackson Five can immediately take me back to my bad-teethed years when I was a "tom boy" but had one best friend. That friend saw me through all these years...still catch her on-line some days and call when we can. So, that song makes me feel the world is OK, that there is hope...that there is this big world out there and nothing bugging me should really matter.
But, the real sublime transports are novels I read or movies I watch.
A story about a woman who dies and leaves her family...yet leaves behind all these individuals who grow simply because of her death...fighting it all the way...not knowing that things have a way of working out. Heck, doesn't everyone love a sad story to remind us of what a gift each day is...or to "make that move," ....or forget a transgression...
Sublime:

The Monarch Trees in Monterey, California What can I say...it is breath-taking....wonderful...sublime.

"Stop the clock..." by W.H. Auden ...a poem about losing a loved one.
created in such a manner that touched me....a remark to the world that nothing is the same...life can't go on without that someone...stop the time, "he was my North, my South, my East and West....make it a huge procession that he is gone....
I thought that love would last forever......I was wrong"
pour away the ocean...nothing good can ever come...
Geez, I am tearing up now just at the thought of it...it is sublime to me.

"Meet Joe Black" Movie re-make. The idea that life is taken for granted, that there is more going on around us than what we can see. Heck, even Death wants to take some "life" back with him!

"Don't Rain on My Parade" sung by Streisand! sweet...female revolution! Don't walk on the grass.....don't skate on the ice...don't say that...be agreeable... screw that, that's what the songs says...