Re: That devotional component...
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07/04/2005, 08:08:27
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Hi Shelagh

Your words strike a chord with my own experiences.  It's paradoxical that the most beautiful, ineffable feelings are, in a sense, the most difficult to deal with.  (And painful to learn that that difficulty has led to our being mercilessly exploited).  But I feel that we can take some comfort in the knowledge that this tension has existed and been recognized continually throughout history. 

                          Such tricks hath strong imagination,

                          That if it would but apprehend some joy,

                          It comprehends some bringer of that joy.  

                                                          (Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, V.i, ll.18-20)

And apostrophe, or prosopopoeia, is a universal device.  I particularly like these lines by Shelley (no prizes for guessing what he is addressing).  I'm not sure where they're from but I think Mary quotes them in 'Frankenstein',

                        Art thou pale for weariness

                       Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,

                       Wandering companionless ...?

Kind regards          George

 







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