Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Words of Wisdom by Wordsworth


I found this quote by Williams Wordsworth and I really loved it. I thought it was very clever and inspiring! This was my favorite of all the quotes by him.
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William Wordsworth

I found this quote by Williams Wordsworth very interesting. I believe this quote displays how clever William Wordsworth was.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
William Wordsworth

I had to add this quote by Williams Wordsworth because I found it fascinating. I tried to do more research on this quote but I could not find anything on it, however I would love to understand what he means because it really sparks an interest in me.
The child is father of the man.
William Wordsworth

Understanding Ode to the West Wind

I believe this is perfect commentary on Shelleys "Ode to the West Wind." It explains how Shelley uses many metaphors and expresses how he viewed nature as a source of beauty unlike a lot of other Romantic poets during his time.

The wispy, fluid terza rima of “Ode to the West Wind” finds Shelley taking a long thematic leap beyond the scope of “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty,” and incorporating his own art into his meditation on beauty and the natural world. Shelley invokes the wind magically, describing its power and its role as both “destroyer and preserver,” and asks the wind to sweep him out of his torpor “as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!” In the fifth section, the poet then takes a remarkable turn, transforming the wind into a metaphor for his own art, the expressive capacity that drives “dead thoughts” like “withered leaves” over the universe, to “quicken a new birth”—that is, to quicken the coming of the spring. Here the spring season is a metaphor for a “spring” of human consciousness, imagination, liberty, or morality—all the things Shelley hoped his art could help to bring about in the human mind. Shelley asks the wind to be his spirit, and in the same movement he makes it his metaphorical spirit, his poetic faculty, which will play him like a musical instrument, the way the wind strums the leaves of the trees. The thematic implication is significant: whereas the older generation of Romantic poets viewed nature as a source of truth and authentic experience, the younger generation largely viewed nature as a source of beauty and aesthetic experience. In this poem, Shelley explicitly links nature with art by finding powerful natural metaphors with which to express his ideas about the power, import, quality, and ultimate effect of aesthetic expression.

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/shelley/section4.rhtml

Jane Tells Wicked Aunt Off!



I just finished reading Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre ( the full novel ) and I wanted to share my favorite quote.

" I am not deceitful: if I Were. I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you worse of anybody in the world except John Reed..."""(Bronte 658)

I really enjoyed this part of the novel because Jane finally sticks up to her aunt who treats her like a burden to the family. It is almost like a turning point in the novel and it gives the reader hope that maybe her life will become better...