Though William Wordsworth bristled at the thought of being lumped in with many of his contemporary Romantic poets, he, along with William Blake, did share the belief that the Imagination, or as Blake understood it as spiritual revelation, informed and gave breadth to poetry. Both poets saw a redemptive power in the Imagination and this ...
The human imagination, the ability to perceive another kind of reality made purely of thought, has always been the muse of artists and writers alike. Poets especially prize this human ability to imagine and create because it is the essence of their work, both for the poet himself and the reader. However, no contemporary poet ...
The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; As imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. (5.1.7-12). This stanza taken from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights Dream ...
There aren’t too many things in this world that are more intimidating than your toddler or little one asking for a bedtime story, but turning down every book on the shelf that you’ve read them a hundred times over. Especially if they specifically blurt out “tell me a story!”. Our responses often involve something akin ...
A few years ago my parents went on a trip out to Montana to visit relatives. When they returned, my mom wanted to make a slideshow out of a hundred or so photographs my dad had taken at one event. This ended up being a fairly lengthy process, involving music selection, title cards and more. ...
When your children are learning to draw the following eight tips might be useful to their learning process. 1. Copy objects instead of another drawing When children copy another drawing it gives the false impression that the drawing they copied is the right way (or perhaps the only way) to draw something. Parents should not ...
