Monday 7 July 2014
A blue flower
is a central symbol of inspiration. It
stands for desire, love, and the metaphysical striving for the infinite and
unreachable. It symbolizes hope and the beauty of things. German author Novalis
used the symbol in his unfinished Bildungsroman, entitled Heinrich von Ofterdingen. After
contemplating a meeting with a stranger, the young Heinrich von Ofterdingen
dreams about a blue flower which calls to him and absorbs his attention. In the
book Heinrich von Ofterdingen
the blue flower symbolises the joining of human with nature and the spirit so
the understanding of nature and coincident of the self is growing. In the
Romantic the meaning of human was a continuation from Humanism and the Age of
Enlightenment, but the focus was on the own emotions not on abstract theory. Source
