Again, the negative example (here in an emphatic, sublime way) is used to educate the listener's patriotic sensibilities.
The first is that the sublime character of the drum arouses pity.
Sublime moments of creation are either transiently performed or statically commemorated and 'recalled' in the oratorio.
Nothing distracts or disenchants the mind engaged by these sublime objects.
The 'elevated' works of the twentieth century are generally concerned with the anti-sublime, the socially mixed, and give minute attention to their own language.
Sublime's self-titled 1996 album was certified platinum early in 1997.
He sees the sublime shown in and through the facts of the world.
If this sounds like pre-modern defeatism, it also indicates a way forward to the modern sublime in which astonishment forces a recoil to rational analysis.