Aurora Leigh
Lonely people will sometimes project their own homes internally to shut out the world around them.
"Then something moved me. Then, I wakened up
More slowly than I verily write now,
But wholly at last I wakened opened wide
The window and my soul and let the airs
And out door sights sweep gradual gospels in,
Regenerating what I was O Life
How oft we throw it off and think,-- “Enough
Enough of life in so much! – here’s a cause
For rupture; -- herein we must break with Life,
Or be ourselves unworthy; here we are wronged,
Maimed spoiled for aspiration: farewell Life!”
And so, as froward babes we hide our eyes
And think all ended. -- Then Life calls to us
In some transformed apocalyptic voice,
Above us or below us or around
Perhaps we name it Nature's voice or Love's,
Tricking ourselves because we are more ashamed
To own our compensations than our griefs:
Still, Life's voice! --still we make our peace with Life"
--Auora Leigh pg 27
"Then something moved me. Then, I wakened up
More slowly than I verily write now,
But wholly at last I wakened opened wide
The window and my soul and let the airs
And out door sights sweep gradual gospels in,
Regenerating what I was O Life
How oft we throw it off and think,-- “Enough
Enough of life in so much! – here’s a cause
For rupture; -- herein we must break with Life,
Or be ourselves unworthy; here we are wronged,
Maimed spoiled for aspiration: farewell Life!”
And so, as froward babes we hide our eyes
And think all ended. -- Then Life calls to us
In some transformed apocalyptic voice,
Above us or below us or around
Perhaps we name it Nature's voice or Love's,
Tricking ourselves because we are more ashamed
To own our compensations than our griefs:
Still, Life's voice! --still we make our peace with Life"
--Auora Leigh pg 27
Fig5: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomsaint/3729063655/sizes/z/in/photostream/
On books and life
"Or else I sat on in my chamber
green,
And lived my life and thought my thoughts and prayed
My prayers without the vicar read my books,
Without considering whether they were fit
To do me good Mark there We get no good
By being ungenerous even to a book
And calculating profits, - so much help
By so much reading. It is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves and plunge
Soul forward headlong into a book's profound,
Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth-
T’ is then we get the right good from a book."
--Auora Leigh pg 28
And lived my life and thought my thoughts and prayed
My prayers without the vicar read my books,
Without considering whether they were fit
To do me good Mark there We get no good
By being ungenerous even to a book
And calculating profits, - so much help
By so much reading. It is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves and plunge
Soul forward headlong into a book's profound,
Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth-
T’ is then we get the right good from a book."
--Auora Leigh pg 28
http://www.housing.gatech.edu/reshalls/reshalls_detail.cfm?BldgID=016
This is an interesting commentary on the process of reading books, and
as an extension the process of living life.
Like reading books you get more out of life when you open up and embrace
all aspects of it instead of focusing only on getting a couple of
things. This need to embrace all aspects
of our college lives are reflected in our “homes” here at school. Very rarely do you find an occupied dorm at Tech left
in its initial library like state.
Rather than being purely geared for learning, our rooms reflect that most
of us have chosen to dive into college “soul forward” as to get the right good
from this chapter in our lives.
Discussion:
- Even though I am one of those more technically oriented biomedical engineers, computers and friends a still play a major role in my life as evidenced by the souvenir movie poster in my room.
- What items in your room reflect the fact that you are getting the full college experience?
