The English Poetic Mind
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A lktle more, and all our human world would undergo that almost terrifying alchemy, our joys would be pearls, our griefs coral. It has been disputed whether Ariel were masculine or feminine — Ariel ! when the very words in relation to him have no meaning. Ariel is only comparable with that other sudden outburst of new awareness, of a different poetic knowledge, when Pericles cries out on hearing 'the music of the spheres'.
Shakespeare's poetry imagines that music, as his poetry imagines a note ...of it, hardly bearable by mortality, in Ariel. It is this which gives a profound suggestiveness to Prospero's speech on the 'insub- stantial pageant'. Prospero himself, it may be remarked, ten lines before and ten lines after, is not 108 THE CYCLE OF SHAKESPEARE in the smallest degree prepared to be such stuff as dreams are made of.
I had forgot that foul conspiracy Of the beast Caliban, and his confederates Against my life.
It seems quite possible that Shakespeare had for- gotten it too, and that — having suddenly remembered it — he created Prospero's speech chiefly to close the masque and to get Ferdinand and Miranda out of the way in such a burst of poetry as would leave the young people (and us) dazed and overwhelmed.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A lktle more, and all our human world would undergo that almost terrifying alchemy, our joys would be pearls, our griefs coral. It has been disputed whether Ariel were masculine or feminine — Ariel ! when the very words in relation to him have no meaning. Ariel is only comparable with that other sudden outburst of new awareness, of a different poetic knowledge, when Pericles cries out on hearing 'the music of the spheres'.
Shakespeare's poetry imagines that music, as his poetry imagines a note ...of it, hardly bearable by mortality, in Ariel. It is this which gives a profound suggestiveness to Prospero's speech on the 'insub- stantial pageant'. Prospero himself, it may be remarked, ten lines before and ten lines after, is not 108 THE CYCLE OF SHAKESPEARE in the smallest degree prepared to be such stuff as dreams are made of.
I had forgot that foul conspiracy Of the beast Caliban, and his confederates Against my life.
It seems quite possible that Shakespeare had for- gotten it too, and that — having suddenly remembered it — he created Prospero's speech chiefly to close the masque and to get Ferdinand and Miranda out of the way in such a burst of poetry as would leave the young people (and us) dazed and overwhelmed.
What to read after The English Poetic Mind?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Wordsworth Collection to read onlineMoreLess
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