Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 10:42:46 -0800
From: "Thad Q. Alexander" <rattler-AT-inreach.net>
Subject: Re: PLC: An entirely different subject


Oh yes! The Romantic period was a time were no longer was the voice, or the
freedom of expression by the poet or the commoner for that matter, stiffled with
cake. It was the revolutionist that open the way for poets and free thinkers to
play and "Experiment" with language and freedom of expression. It was the literary
renaissance. Yes?

"Man is an instrument over which a series of external and internal impressions are
driven, like the alternations of an ever-changing wind over an Aeolian lyre"
For Shelly, in his essay "A Defence of Poetry," that language was not only melody
but harmony. And it is the "internal excitement" that tunes the two togather. That
internal excitement is stimulated by external forces. External forces excited by
such things as poverty, starvation and revolution, put the X in the internal
excitement and man's "YAWP!" came forth and experimentation of the meaning of
words in poetry began! Thus the creation of language, in harmony with thought,
emotions. Yes?

"All the authors of revolutions in opinion are not only necessarily poets as they
are inventors, nor even as their words unveil the permanent analogy of things by
images which participate in the life of truth; but as their periods are harmonious
and rhythmical and contain in themselves the elements of verse; being the echo of
the eternal music."

George, I'm I close here with shelly, or is it too vague?
Me

George Trail wrote:

> >
> >I believe that Language has become a very special "virtual creature" which
> >lives side by side with us, providing a reality which we often defend or
> >oppose with our lives, since language is the carrier of beliefs, ideas,
> >concepts and religions.  It is as if we built language and then used that
> >structure to help us continue to build thought, or at least to extend thought
> >further and further.
> >
> >'nuf said.  Comments?
> >
> >"In vino veritas"
> >
> >Regards,
> >Saicho
>
> And it became a tradition to refer to this way of thinking as
> "Romanticism," and to divide its adherants into two basic groups, "high"
> who held it as a blessing, and "simple," who held it as inescapable, even
> unanswerable.
> g
>
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