I want to explore this "mood as way of seeing" moreThe different windows onto the world they offer. What is accessible, what thoughts engendered, what are we cut off from and forbidden. How they exist in contrast to or sympathy with the wider moods of society (eg the French evolution and aftermath) or of nature, ooh it's spring how lovely
It's been a bit since I've read Orlando but this is partly what that book's about too, yeah?@Corpsey he's talking about you
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it has been of yore;-
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
I want to explore this "mood as way of seeing" more
It's been a bit since I've read Orlando but this is partly what that book's about too, yeah?
Why are you so bothered about whether a given piece of writing is 'poetry' or not. What difference does it make?
That's prose, inert prose, with line breaks.
If I had anything I'd have posted it!Get us started.