When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, huge cloudy symbols of a high romance.
And autumn is here, finally. I spent all summer in my yearly time of unrest, pining quietly away for the comfort and unfolding feeling that comes from the first bit of cold-tinged wind blowing in through the trees at the end of September. On the first of the month Mom made a small chicken and she cooked it all day in the slow cooker and put all sorts of spices in it, and the smell drifted through the open-windowed house and mingled with the breeze blowing in. And if you got just close enough to the pot in the kitchen, the spiced steam would waft up and tickle the end of your nose. It was delicious! :D
Mom and I went to see Bright Star yesterday (which is fantastic and should be seen if you get the chance!). Driving home in the darkened city I saw a heavenly golden spectre-like image in the air, and I told my mother, "What is that? It looks like fire in the sky." Like the flames of a housefire licked up and stuck in the sky, or like some worship glory kicked up in a tent revival that met somewhere in the sky with a descending heavenly flame. It took me a minute to realise it was the harvest moon, disformed by the clouds hanging over it. I've seen harvest moons many times as a child, but this one caught me off my guard. It was so huge, like a great equinoxial sun, only deeper and more mysterious.
But Bright Star -- it was beautiful. Some of the shots were so full of the deepest colors. The last shot, where Fanny is walking through the forest, was the deepest sort of blue. (okay, these are sort of spoilerish) I loved the scene where Fanny, Samuel, and Toots had let loose all the butterflies in her room. The slow opening and closing of the wings as the butterflies clung to everything was so perfect. And when Fanny received the short letter from John and her mother came (I think it was?) and swept up the dead butterflies off of the ground. It had so much meaning to it. My favourite part though is when Keats hugs Toots and she says, "I love you." It's so sweet and it shows how John wasn't just a man Fanny imagined to be wonderful or that her love for him was blindness, but that others around him also saw the loveliness and kindness of his character. The movie made me find "By The Aurelian Wall" that Bliss wrote. I read it for the first time about three and a half years ago and it was about the extent of my knowledge of Keats (except that he was an English poet and a really good one at that) until Ren told me about Bright Star. I hadn't read the poem since then, but it makes more sense now. My favorite stanza was always the sixth. Something about "wherewith the ghostly houses of gray rain" always seemed near tangible to me. I can almost feel the cold of them and the rain coming through.
So with the coming days we will see what October has to show.
Mom and I went to see Bright Star yesterday (which is fantastic and should be seen if you get the chance!). Driving home in the darkened city I saw a heavenly golden spectre-like image in the air, and I told my mother, "What is that? It looks like fire in the sky." Like the flames of a housefire licked up and stuck in the sky, or like some worship glory kicked up in a tent revival that met somewhere in the sky with a descending heavenly flame. It took me a minute to realise it was the harvest moon, disformed by the clouds hanging over it. I've seen harvest moons many times as a child, but this one caught me off my guard. It was so huge, like a great equinoxial sun, only deeper and more mysterious.
But Bright Star -- it was beautiful. Some of the shots were so full of the deepest colors. The last shot, where Fanny is walking through the forest, was the deepest sort of blue. (okay, these are sort of spoilerish) I loved the scene where Fanny, Samuel, and Toots had let loose all the butterflies in her room. The slow opening and closing of the wings as the butterflies clung to everything was so perfect. And when Fanny received the short letter from John and her mother came (I think it was?) and swept up the dead butterflies off of the ground. It had so much meaning to it. My favourite part though is when Keats hugs Toots and she says, "I love you." It's so sweet and it shows how John wasn't just a man Fanny imagined to be wonderful or that her love for him was blindness, but that others around him also saw the loveliness and kindness of his character. The movie made me find "By The Aurelian Wall" that Bliss wrote. I read it for the first time about three and a half years ago and it was about the extent of my knowledge of Keats (except that he was an English poet and a really good one at that) until Ren told me about Bright Star. I hadn't read the poem since then, but it makes more sense now. My favorite stanza was always the sixth. Something about "wherewith the ghostly houses of gray rain" always seemed near tangible to me. I can almost feel the cold of them and the rain coming through.
So with the coming days we will see what October has to show.