tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818799708058096084.post706453388349032964..comments2023-10-26T06:57:52.663-07:00Comments on ProSe: A Poem for the Day - "The Solitary Reaper" By William WordsworthChristopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00428150254760548485noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818799708058096084.post-40303402993700310402009-08-27T12:52:34.615-07:002009-08-27T12:52:34.615-07:00While at the Cather Seminar in Chicago this summer...While at the Cather Seminar in Chicago this summer, I of course had to go to the Art Institute. I've been there before and have seen Breton's beautiful painting. But I saw it anew after having been immersed in several days of conversation on Cather and Chicago. It is a lot of fun to stand in front of it and channel Thea Kronberg (from _Song of the Lark_): “That was her picture. She imagined that nobody cared for it but herself, and that it waited for her. That was a picture indeed. She even liked the name of it, ‘The Song of the Lark.’ The flat country, the early morning light, the wet fields, the look in the girl’s heavy face—well, they were all hers, anyhow, what-ever was there. She told herself that that picture was ‘right.’ Just what she meant by this, it would take a clever person to explain. But to her the word covered almost the boundless satisfaction she felt when she looked at the picture.”AJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01561734315944416590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818799708058096084.post-9184384031043397222009-08-20T15:28:06.328-07:002009-08-20T15:28:06.328-07:00Wonderful comment, Laurel! Thanks for the tip to ...Wonderful comment, Laurel! Thanks for the tip to the Breton painting. I shall go look it up. Also, I agree with the nod to Cather. This is what I have always loved about Wordsworth's poetry, it always evokes images of the landscape. Cheers! ChrisChristopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00428150254760548485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818799708058096084.post-35087837245942644562009-08-20T14:11:39.486-07:002009-08-20T14:11:39.486-07:00I never read that poem without seeing Jules Breton...I never read that poem without seeing Jules Breton's painting, "The Song of the Lark." And then, of course, I'm reminded of Willa Cather.Laurelnoreply@blogger.com