What is the most fascinating sound in the world? The gentle whisper of breeze and the embalmed song of a nightingale can draw the romantic human beings to the illusionary land.
During the Romantic period, Breeze is mentioned several times in the poetry. In Wordsworth’s Prelude, “O there is blessing in this gentle breeze.” Then, within the poet’s body, the correspondent breeze blows. Wordsworth and Coleridge both mention the Eolian Harp. It seems that the breeze is a general topic and a symbol to the poetic mind. Breeze connects the sentimental soul of the poets with outward nature, and blows, stirs, and arouses the unlimited imagination from the unquiet spirits.
The soft breeze brings inspiration to the poets. The poets acquire sweet sensation from the breeze. Though the wind is gentle, it creates an incessant inner storm in human body. For example, in the Prelude, “For I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven/ was blowing on my body, felt within,/a correspondent breeze, that gently moved/ with quickening virtue, but is now become/ a tempest, a redundant energy.” The poets’ creativity and sensibility of the delicate and elegant natural elements are really touching, and their work opens a new vision on the relationship between mankind and nature.
Nightingale is also what the poets praise. In many stories, nightingale suggests a mysterious, fascinating figure of love and death. Keats writes “Ode to a Nightingale” and the poet is drunk in the sweet music of the nightingale, lingering between the dream and reality. It makes me think of Wilde’s “The Nightingale and the Rose,” in which the nightingale dedicate its life to love. The blood-stained rose doesn’t win the lover in the end. Therefore, the song of the nightingale is veiled with light melancholy.
Various sounds surround us, joyful or sad alike. The different music stimulates our sensory organs, and sometimes creates a wonder. It’s a pity that feeling free in the embrace of breeze, somehow, might be luxurious to the busy modern people. However, if we can appreciate the call of breeze and the anthem of a nightingale, if possible or other bird’s song, maybe we can find some relief and magic power in the waking dream.
During the Romantic period, Breeze is mentioned several times in the poetry. In Wordsworth’s Prelude, “O there is blessing in this gentle breeze.” Then, within the poet’s body, the correspondent breeze blows. Wordsworth and Coleridge both mention the Eolian Harp. It seems that the breeze is a general topic and a symbol to the poetic mind. Breeze connects the sentimental soul of the poets with outward nature, and blows, stirs, and arouses the unlimited imagination from the unquiet spirits.
The soft breeze brings inspiration to the poets. The poets acquire sweet sensation from the breeze. Though the wind is gentle, it creates an incessant inner storm in human body. For example, in the Prelude, “For I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven/ was blowing on my body, felt within,/a correspondent breeze, that gently moved/ with quickening virtue, but is now become/ a tempest, a redundant energy.” The poets’ creativity and sensibility of the delicate and elegant natural elements are really touching, and their work opens a new vision on the relationship between mankind and nature.
Nightingale is also what the poets praise. In many stories, nightingale suggests a mysterious, fascinating figure of love and death. Keats writes “Ode to a Nightingale” and the poet is drunk in the sweet music of the nightingale, lingering between the dream and reality. It makes me think of Wilde’s “The Nightingale and the Rose,” in which the nightingale dedicate its life to love. The blood-stained rose doesn’t win the lover in the end. Therefore, the song of the nightingale is veiled with light melancholy.
Various sounds surround us, joyful or sad alike. The different music stimulates our sensory organs, and sometimes creates a wonder. It’s a pity that feeling free in the embrace of breeze, somehow, might be luxurious to the busy modern people. However, if we can appreciate the call of breeze and the anthem of a nightingale, if possible or other bird’s song, maybe we can find some relief and magic power in the waking dream.
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