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SONG OF MYSELF

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SONG OF MYSELF BY WALT WHITMAN Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist he was part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism incorporating both views in his works. One of his works is 52 section poem "SONG OF MYSELF" that is included in his work "Leaves of Grass" which talks about "INDIVIDUASLIM". This poem talks about myself, man has an individual self where he is both individual and universal whereas the world has a universal self. The poet wants to maintain the identity of oneself and how it merges with the universal self. The main aspects he talks about the idea of self, the identity of oneself, and the relationship of oneself with the world and universe. The first section of the poem talks about celebrating being individual at the same time "I" is the poet himself, being universalized. One of the lines describes " what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as a good belon...

ARCHITECTURE IN ANIME

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A nime {JAPANESE ANIMATION} is something in which I have been interested in a very long time and I was also planning to have a career in architecture. Architecture for me is the design of buildings, structures, objects, or spaces for a specific purpose. Be it simply for shelter, for oneself or for the art of it, is very much calculated in the way approaching designing something like this you think about every single variable and try to account for as many different types of uses as possible. I have heard about the architectural writings of many architects but never read about architecture and its uses in other mediums of expressions such as mediums like film and animation. According to my observation, when you start watching any animated series/shows there are usually specific ways in which a show will use architecture as a visual storytelling device to establish what kind of world are you in and also what kind of era the story belongs to and gives a peek in what kind of story ...