The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1 · Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
2. THE OBJECTIVE CHARACTER OF THE REPRESENTATION
Der Strauss, den ich gepflücket, Grüsse Dich viel tausendmal, Ich habe mich oft gebücket Und ihn aus Herz gedrücket, Ach, wie viel tausendmal[425]. strong emotion is suggested in a very different way, which brings before our mind nothing trivial or contrary to the main idea. What however is, as a rule, defective in this particular type of poetical realization is the expression of emotion in all its true intensity. This, in the rarest art, should not be suffered to remain a depth shut away, which merely reflects a distant echo through the external objects presented: it should either break forth in its full character, or be seen through the vehicle with complete transparency. Schiller, for example, brings out his soul in its full strength in the pathos of his work, withal a great soul, which penetrates to the very core of his subject, and is able to express its very deepest significance in the freest and most perspicuous way through the wealth and music of his verse.
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