Sublime
Sublime refers to the beautiful, excellence, and awe. When we see the “sublime” we immediately realize that we are engulfed by a emotional and physical sensation caused by the environment or certain experience. To many travelers we experience the sublime often just by interacting with foreigners and immersing ourselves in different cultures. When we experience sublime moments they might spark an allusion to a positive memory or an earlier expedition .Getting off the beaten path is an achievable path so long we truly seek it and are prepared for the consequences. Travel literature written by Wollstonecraft includes several first hand encounters of the sublime.
We see an example of the sublime in Mary Wollstonecraft’s “Letters from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.”
“Entering amongst the cliffs, we were sheltered from the wind, warm sunbeams began to play, streams to flow, and the groves of pines
diversified the rocks. Sometimes they became suddenly bare and sublime. Once in particular, after mounting the most terrific
precipice, we had to pass through a tremendous defile, where the closing chasm seemed to threaten us with constant destruction,
when, turning quickly, verdant meadows and a beautiful lake relieved and charmed me eyes.”
References
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/the-sublime/what-is-the-sublime-r1109449
