Seeing into the life of things. ..\"Tinter Abbey\" - W.Wordsworth Thread poster: Aurora Humarán (X)
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Aurora Humarán (X) 
Argentina
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\"I was the Dreamer, they the Dream....\"
Ahhhh...school times...language III: a whole year devoted to Poetry.
A whole year to meet new friends: Chaucer, Lord Byron, Keats, Johnson, Dryden, Elliot, Dickinson, Tennyson...
And a month exclusively devoted to William the Great  Wow...
As a constant \"seeker\" I have always accepted Wordsworth´s invitati... See more
\"I was the Dreamer, they the Dream....\"
Ahhhh...school times...language III: a whole year devoted to Poetry.
A whole year to meet new friends: Chaucer, Lord Byron, Keats, Johnson, Dryden, Elliot, Dickinson, Tennyson...
And a month exclusively devoted to William the Great Wow...
As a constant \"seeker\" I have always accepted Wordsworth´s invitations to go deeper ...
Here he is today, lyrically inviting us again to question life.
We are always thinking about man´s relationship to the world of things and the world of people.
But how does man \"fit\" into the SCHEME OF EXISTENCE?
Are we caught up in nature?
Is man one with nature? Should he be one with nature?
Or is nature a mere stage for our \"play\"?
? Au
(some lines from \"Tintern Abbey\"...)
To them I may have owed another gift,
Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood,
In which the burthen of the mystery,
In which the heavy and the weary weight
Of all this unintelligible world
Is lighten\'d: - that serene and blessed mood,
In which the affections gently lead us on,
Until, the breath of this corporeal frame,
And even the motion of our human blood
Almost suspended, we are laid asleep
In body, and become a living soul:
While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.
William Wordsworth
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| | | | MikeGarcia
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In memoriam
Did you ever wonder why William is an usual first name in english poetry? Chaucer, Wordsworth, Longfellow, and so.....
MGU
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| | | | anna_maria
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Dear Aurora
thank you for this very interesting question. It is most interesting to see how many other poets and artists have tried to answer to this problem, maybe not just *a* problem, but *the* Problem of a whole artistic and non-artistic life.
Listen what my beloved Shelley says in his \"Ode to the West Wind\" (l.43-56)
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If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;
If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;
A wave to pant beneath th... See more Dear Aurora
thank you for this very interesting question. It is most interesting to see how many other poets and artists have tried to answer to this problem, maybe not just *a* problem, but *the* Problem of a whole artistic and non-artistic life.
Listen what my beloved Shelley says in his \"Ode to the West Wind\" (l.43-56)
\"..
If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;
If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;
A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share
The impulse of thy strength, only less free
Than thou, O uncontrollable!If even
I were as in my boyhood, and could be
The comrade of thy wanderings over Heaven,
As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed
Scarce seemed a vision; I would ne\'er have striven
As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.
Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life!I bleed!
A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed
One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud:..\"
Here there is the great painful sensation given by the realisation that the desire to be completely part of Nature is terribly difficult to achieve, if not mostly impossible; that is why a poet, or better a romantic poet, is almost like an hero....
Beautiful lines to think upon for hours and days, aren\'t they?
Cheers
Annamaria
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| | | | | The wisdom of children | Nov 4, 2002 |
Ah, Wordsworth and schooldays ... an almost lethal mix!
My favourite was/ is the Immortality Ode:
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ...
meaning that
... trailing clouds of glory, do we come from God who is our home.
And the Child is the best philosopher, because he has not yet forgotten who his/her real Father is and where Truth lies.
It is a vision of life akin... See more Ah, Wordsworth and schooldays ... an almost lethal mix!
My favourite was/ is the Immortality Ode:
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ...
meaning that
... trailing clouds of glory, do we come from God who is our home.
And the Child is the best philosopher, because he has not yet forgotten who his/her real Father is and where Truth lies.
It is a vision of life akin to the one expressed by Cat Stevens (do I dare to compare the two?) in Rhymes and Reasons, I believe.
... The children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers. Their laughter and their loveliness could clear a cloudy day...
and the best way to remember that we belong to Nature is to create a \"brotherhood\" of men (or of human beings to take sexism out at least a bit).
Nice thoughts for a five minutes\' stop! Thanks
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Aurora Humarán (X)
Argentina
Local time: 07:37
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TOPIC STARTER
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On 2002-11-04 14:36, domenica02 wrote:
It is a vision of life akin to the one expressed by Cat Stevens (do I dare to compare the two?) in Rhymes and Reasons, I believe.
Why not? Just another artist \"seeing into the real life of human beings\"....
Au
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| WW Answers his own question | Nov 4, 2002 |
We had, as a species, every opportunity to be a part of nature, says he. But we chose consciousness instead. And consciousness, by making us greedy for more than we need, took away that which we needed most.
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,<... See more We had, as a species, every opportunity to be a part of nature, says he. But we chose consciousness instead. And consciousness, by making us greedy for more than we need, took away that which we needed most.
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.--Great God! I\'d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
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| | | | Aurora Humarán (X)
Argentina
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TOPIC STARTER | W.W. = wise words | Nov 4, 2002 |
Quote:
On 2002-11-04 15:54, refugio wrote:
And consciousness, by making us greedy for more than we need, took away that which we needed most.
Beautiful...  Au
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| Brotherhood of men | Nov 4, 2002 |
While getting ready for my trip to NYC, I came across a poem by Archibald MacLeish (20th c.) of which here is the second half:
Land of the Free
(...)
The long harangues of the grass in the wind are our histories
We tell our freedom backward by the land
We tell our past by the gravestones and the apple trees
We wonder whether the great American dream
Was the singing of locusts out of ... See more While getting ready for my trip to NYC, I came across a poem by Archibald MacLeish (20th c.) of which here is the second half:
Land of the Free
(...)
The long harangues of the grass in the wind are our histories
We tell our freedom backward by the land
We tell our past by the gravestones and the apple trees
We wonder whether the great American dream
Was the singing of locusts out of the grass to the west
and the
Wets is behind us now:
The west wind\'s away from us:
We wonder if the liberty is done:
The dreaming is finished
We can\'t say
We aren\'t sure
Of if there\'s something different men can dream
Or if there\'s something different men can mean by
Liberty
Or if there\'s liberty a man can mean that\'s
Men: not land
We wonder
We don\'t know
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Aurora Humarán (X)
Argentina
Local time: 07:37
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TOPIC STARTER | Another way of seeing nature.... | Nov 5, 2002 |
If you wish to understand the fragrance of the rose, or the tenacity of the oak; if you are not satisfied until you know the secret paths by which the sunshine and the air achieve these wonders; if you wish to see the pattern which underlies one large field of human experience and human measurement, then take up chemistry....because you are in the wrong site  ... See more
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