Re: I'm still here
SonikSka (SonikSka@aol.com)
Mon, 19 Jan 1998 02:10:19 -0500 (EST)
In a message dated 98-01-19 01:53:33 EST, you write:
<< Our present idealization of childhood comes from Romantics like Blake and
Wordsworth. Both recognized that we lose a great deal when we lose youth,
but we gain a great deal as well--the ability to analyze and understand on
deeper levels. And both extolled that we recover--or attempt to
recover--what
we have lost from youth, without losing the more mature abilities of
analysis...
Jim
>>
thanks jim---
i understand what you mean now, keep in mind, it is 2:00 am as i read / write
this : )
another who did this pretty well, about a century after wordsworth did
'intimations of immortality', etc, is dylan thomas---fern hill, etc. i adore
both of their takes on this issue, especially what wordsworth was saying,
particularly in 'intimations...'. i mean, he pretty much says it, except
perhaps the structure of the time prevented him from actually saying it.
bethany