| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: Alexandra, after the way you baby Emil."
"Hard on you? I never meant to be hard.
Conditions were hard. Maybe I would never
have been very soft, anyhow; but I certainly
didn't choose to be the kind of girl I was. If
you take even a vine and cut it back again and
again, it grows hard, like a tree."
Lou felt that they were wandering from the
point, and that in digression Alexandra might
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: if you will, but not "menage a trois". Both "Erec" and "Yvain"
present a conventional morality. But "Lancelot" is flagrantly
immoral, and the poet is careful to state that for this
particular romance he is indebted to his patroness Marie de
Champagne. He says it was she who furnished him with both the
"matiere" and the "san", the material of the story and its method
of treatment.
Scholars have sought to fix the chronology of the poet's works,
and have been tempted to speculate upon the evolution of his
literary and moral ideas. Professor Foerster's chronology is
generally accepted, and there is little likelihood of his being
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: the bold little bird in her hands. Suddenly he saw a tear fall on to
her wrist.
And he stood up, and stood away, moving to the other coop. For suddenly
he was aware of the old flame shooting and leaping up in his loins,
that he had hoped was quiescent for ever. He fought against it, turning
his back to her. But it leapt, and leapt downwards, circling in his
knees.
He turned again to look at her. She was kneeling and holding her two
hands slowly forward, blindly, so that the chicken should run in to the
mother-hen again. And there was something so mute and forlorn in her,
compassion flamed in his bowels for her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
