Ah.....
I never used to get poetry. I really didn't, for a very long time, didn't do anything for me. But now...
Thank you, Mrs. Westby!!!
She's gone thru so much poetry with us this year, and I don't know if it's more the way she taught it, or just that my own understanding's increased, or some combination thereof...but I love a lot of it now. Frost still annoys me, cos he's just so..I dunno.. lalala, isn't nature pretty?...and some of it's nice but it's too..I dunno...staid..complacent..something...for me... Dickenson's on the opposite end of the scale, she's just..gah...psycho...(*thinking wanna-be-goth Teraa should read some Dickenson--!*)... ..but I just find these lines that're just...gorgeous...that give me that same feeling of...I don't even know what to call it...just that wonderful emotion that just swells up and fills your soul and every corner of your being with its beauty...
And a lot of it probably has to do with the fact that I've realised poetry is lyrics, they're music..music without sound but sometimes just as effective...
"Vanish, dark clouds on high,
Offspring of night!
Let a more radiant beam
Through the blue ether gleam,
Charming the sight!
Would the dark clouds on high
Melt into air!
Stars glimmer tenderly,
Planets more fair
Shed their soft light.
Spirits of heav'nly birth,
Fairer than sons of earth,
Quivering emotions true ..."
-from
"Chorus of Spirits", from Faust, by Goethe.
..which reminds me...Faust is something Ananda needs to go find to read...
*Ananda Daydream * 9:18 PM *
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