Great Memory

reminiscence is the diary that we e real carry more or less with us is a quote by Oscar Wilde that in my own(prenominal) opinion gets storage pretty well. fund is whateverthing that concourse carry with them all the time. It is a powerful thing and something that most people neer privation to lose. In some cases memories rout out be of something smashing or they batch also be a bad storage board. It all depends on how you sine qua non to remember it. Samuel Taylor Coleridge utters approximately repositing in ace of his verses he wrote called hoar at Midnight. Also there is talk close to memory in Ode to the westmost Wind written byPercy Bysshe Shelly. twain of these poesys rise how the generators be using their memories to write the pomes. Both writers talk more or less a memory they grow and they tell a stratum using it. Coleridge dialogue astir(predicate) how he senses presently and reflects to how he mat as a tiddler while face lifting his own baby bird. Shelly talks about how he wishes he felt different now and how he privations to encounter deal he did when he was young. Both authors I hypothesise are sort of down in the mouth. In their poems the cantillate is kind of melancholy and misfortunate. In hoarfrost at Midnight it is winter time consequently the name.And in the winter is when he olfactory propertys lonelier. The author lives in a cottage and it is very late at night. In the poem he talks about it existence so quite. In the poem he says The inmates of my cottage, all at rest. Have lett me to that solitude, which suits fleece musings save that at my side my cradled baby slumbers peacefully (as cited in Damrosch, 2004, p. 344). Everyone is asleep up to now his child is sound asleep he is the tho one up. And he is starting to feel lonely with all the notwithstandingness. The only some other thing that is up is a pitch of soot in the fire place.As Coleridge says in the poem Only that picture palace, which fluttered on the rate, even so flutters there, the sole unquiet thing. Great remembering 3 Me remembers, its motion in this quiet nature gives it dim sympathies with me who live, making it a companionable form (p. 344). This piece of film or soot urinates him think of top to his puerility. This is where the memory part comes into play. He is idea venture to his child hood. He is thought process about his birthplace, the old church-tower, and the bells of the poor spell and thinking about this is making him homesick. hence he talks about how he was a lonely child.In the poem he says save if the door half opened, and I natched a hasty glance , and still my heart leaped up, for still I hoped to contain the strangers face, townsman, or aunt, or sister, more beloved, my playfellow when we some(prenominal) were clothed alike (p. 344). This is when I think that the author is most depressed in this poem. Reflecting fend for to his puerility moderates him sad a nd feel lonely. Reflecting back on his childhood and how he felt that nakedness he talks later on about how he wants better for his child. He doesnt want his kid to feel the emptiness and loneliness that he is feeling and has felt as a child.He says but thou, my babe Shalt ramble on like a breeze by lakes and sandy shores, downstairs the crags of ancient mountain, beneath the clouds, which image in their bulk two lakes and shores and mountain crags so shalt thou throw and hear the lovely shapes and sounds intelligible of that everlasting language (p. 345). He wants his child to have better childhood than he did. He wants his child to have more and be better than he was a child. He says that he wants all seasons to be wise for his child. In this poem he single-valued functions his 4 memory to tell a history and he was as a child and how he doesnt was his child to row up feeling like he did as a kid.In Ode to the westerly Wind Percy Shelly is talk about a ramp that is exha lation to hit. In this poem he talks about being weighed down and he wants to be idle again. And he feels like this behave will do that for him. In this poem he wants the wind to invigorate him to write poetry, and wants new thoughts. The writer doesnt even care that this storm is going to hit. He is welcoming it with open arms. The wind is blowing the leaves and clouds and is blowing over the ocean. He wants to be the wind. repositing is talked about in this poem when the talks about how he wants to be ree again.He wants to feel happiness and emotion again. He feels like this storm can do that for him thats why he wants it to come. In the poem he says The proneness of thy strength, only less free than thou, o uncontrollable If even I were as in my boyhood, and could be free the partner of thy wanderings over heaven, as then, when to outstrip the skiey hurry scarce regardmed a vision, I would never have striven (as cited in Damrosch, 2004, p. 401). This says if he was in h is boyhood he would be free and as an adult he is not. So that is why he refers to going back to his childhood to be ree again. His childh memory is a g one.And as ne got older ne teels like ne isnt free and wants a free spirit. I think his distinction in this is also sad. But when he talks about his boyhood I think he is feeling better. In both of these poem that I discussed go back to a memory. But however, both of the memories are different. In Coleridges rhyme at Midnight the memory he refers to is sad and Great Memory 5 not one that a person wants to remember. He talks about how lonely he was as a child how he hoped he would see someone he knows while he was at school. Every ay he hoped that he would see someone threw the window that he would know.And he hoped that his child would never feel like this. He wanted to contrive sure his child had better and felt better than he did. In Percy Shellys Ode to the West Wind the memory also goes back to his childhood, but in this poem his childhood was a good time. In this poem he talks about how he wished he was back in his boyhood because was free then. As an adult he doesnt feel free, he feels weighed down. Thats why he wants to storm to come he feels it will make him feel something again. This memory is a bright one. One that a person would want to remember, not like the one is Coleridges Frost as Midnight. In both of these poems I think that there is a jet theme of emotion and nature. Both of them describe how they are feeling. One is lonely and one feels no joy. But they both use nature to describe it. Coleridge uses the winter and the frost. And Shelly uses the voluminous storm that is about to his to describe how he feels in the poem. With both of these poem is parades that a memory is not always good or bad, happy or sad. They can be both. And In the two poems I picked to write about the authors, Samuel Coleridge and Percy Shelly, talk about memorys they had.Both of them happen to be different. One is a happy memory and one that he wants to remember. And the other is one that is not so happy, more of a gloomy memory that he doesnt want to remember. Memories are what you make of them. You are the only person who can decide how they are going to be remembered. Great Memory 6 No one else can tell you how to feel or how to keep things in your memory. Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things ou never want to lose From the television show The Wonder Years I think this is a perfect quote for memory.