More Yeats, since it's on my mind...

A Coat (1912)
'I made my song a coat

Covered with embroideries

Out of old mythologies

From heel to throat;

But he fools caught it,

Wore it in the world’s eyes

As though they’d wrought it.

Song, let them take it,

For there’s more enterprise

In walking naked.'

one more for the day...

'I am contented, for I know that Quiet
Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart,
Among pigeons and bees'

from In the Seven Woods, William Butler Yeats

The Slave Ship, J.M.W. Turner, exhibited in 1840.

lydia and i were talking about this painting today. Turner painted The Slave Ship to assist in the abolitionist campaign. He was inspired by lines from James Thomson's poem, The Seasons:

"Increasing still the Terrors of these Storms,
His Jaws horrific arm'd with threefold Fate,
Here dwells the direful Shark. Lur'd by the Scent
Of steaming Crrouds, of rank Disease, and Death,
Behold! he rushing cuts the briny Flood,
Swift as the Gale can bear the Ship along;
And, from the Partners of the cruel Trade,
Which spoils unhappy Guinea of her Sons,
Demands his share of Prey, demands themselves.
The stormy Fate descend: one Death involves
Tyrants and Slaves; when strait, their mangled Limbs
Crashing at once, he dyes the purple Seas
With Gore, and riots in the Venegeful Meal."
'Summer', ll.1013-25

'here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down, and with only the serenity and calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be.'

number 1

when i was in highschool i always dreaded the 'mole' discussion in chemistry. i thought everyone in the room was looking at the mole on my face. i decided today to begin blogging my insecurities. my fears. my wanderlust. my fickle insanity. my inconcsistency. my obsession with rushing in. and id like to deal with the fact that i've never had to face a consequence that made me wish i were someone else.

i need help sticking it out. or maybe this will help me think out my decision to let it all go. i will fill you in, and myself.

please read. or dont.