Sunday, November 2, 2008

Read Before Watching - A Defense of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley

So doing my daily hop and sift through the wonderful and dangerous land that is the World Wide Web, I discovered an "experience" that one could only express through the use of the (now common vocab to us all) sublime.

I believe even Longinus would be proud of these people and their work they have so wonderfully portrayed here. :)

At first you'd think I'd be blown away by the fact that they were doing an excellent job of reading the defense (even if it is a slightly abridged version) but I was not. It was the background music that caught me off guard. As soon as I heard it, all I could think was, "Yes....mmmmmmm........perfect".

It was simply divine listening to the Bach Suites play along as some of the most eloquent words ever written on poetry were voiced in a very well thought out video. The most incredible thing about this was the fact that I was just allowed, about a week ago, to listen to one of my classmates in another class (Sexson's 304) play the very song they begin reading with.

The coincidence was beyond words, the connections between these people and the two classes were almost to much for my mind to handle at once. So, I did the only thing reasonable. I just laid back and soaked it in, dealing with it the only true way the sublime, in all its beauty and mystique, can be dealt with. So go ahead and enjoy this, please.

(What else is there to be said? What else can be said?).

Nothing

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