The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In another's being mingle--
Why not I with thine?
See, the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower could be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea;--
What is all this sweet work worth,
If thou kiss not me?
I find this poem fluffy/sugary (that you could even sing one of the theme songs of the movie ANTZ -> the ants go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah!)
Fluffy yeah. But still I like Percy Bysshe Shelley's writings. There is much personifications here. That is typical Shelley. Personifications, similis and metaphors. I can relate. I sometimes use these figures of speech when I desperately want to be understood... when I want the reader to get what I really mean.
Here, it's deep love that made Shelley write such a passionate poem. SOPPY.
Well I don't mind coming across soppy (like my Blog entry "Save the Next Dance for Me") that could be me at times at the height of ... being in love? ahaha, come again? *raised brows* when was the last time? hehehe...
I mean, at the height of my desires to write. Even when my eyes are about to close and my mind is still re-phrasing what I want to write, my hands would itch to scribble the pc's keyboard just for me to put into words what I want to say. Like now... my blog is full of drafts so I'm invading this Review page to write. I just want to write, that's all. And Shelley happened to wink at me this dawn (gosh, his ghost? waah!) After I press the save and publish button I will go straight to bed!!! Hahaha... just kidding!
If you want to visit Shelley's page, it's at
http://www.readprint.com/author-72/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (He's one of my favorites when I had my classes in Literature)
