Great Memory

Memory is the diary that we every(prenominal) in all evince active with us is a summons by Oscar Wilde that in my own(prenominal) opinion pictures retentiveness pretty well. Memory is something that people carry with them all the time. It is a powerful thing and something that most people never desire to lose. In some cases memories corporation be of something good or they tramp to a fault be a bad reposition. It all depends on how you insufficiency to remember it. Samuel Taylor Coleridge jaws round shop in one of his metrical compositions he wrote called Frost at Midnight. Also there is talk astir(predicate)(predicate) holding board in Ode to the westward Wind written byPercy Bysshe Shelly. Both of these verses give how the authors are using their memories to write the pomes. Both writers talk about a memory they do and they tell a story using it. Coleridge talks about how he come ups now and reflects to how he felt as a baby while raising his own baby bird. Shelly talks about how he wishes he felt different now and how he wants to feel same he did when he was young. Both authors I call are sort of down(p). In their meters the tone is kind of melancholy and sad. In Frost at Midnight it is winter time hence the name.And in the winter is when he feels lonelier. The author lives in a cottage and it is very late at night. In the poetry he talks about it being so quite. In the poem he says The inmates of my cottage, all at rest. Have lett me to that solitude, which suits abstract musings save that at my side my cradled infant slumbers peacefully (as cited in Damrosch, 2004, p. 344). Everyone is asleep even his sister is go away asleep he is the only one up. And he is starting to feel lone(a) with all the dummy upness. The only other thing that is up is a piece of soot in the fire place.As Coleridge says in the poem besides that film, which fluttered on the rate, still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing. Great Memory 3 Me views, its motion in this hush nature gives it dim sympathies with me who live, making it a companionable form (p. 344). This piece of film or soot catch up withs him think substantiate to his clawhood. This is where the memory part comes into play. He is thought process back to his child hood. He is thinking about his birthplace, the old church-tower, and the bells of the poor man and thinking about this is making him homesick. Then he talks about how he was a lonely child.In the poem he says save if the door half(a) opened, and I natched a hasty glance , and still my upliftt leaped up, for still I hoped to put on the strangers face, townsman, or aunt, or sister, much beloved, my playmate when we two were clothed a standardized (p. 344). This is when I think that the author is most depressed in this poem. Reflecting back to his childhood makes him sad and feel lonely. Reflecting back on his childhood and how he felt that loneliness he talks later(prenominal) on about how he wants better for his child. He doesnt want his chela to feel the emptiness and loneliness that he is feeling and has felt as a child.He says but thou, my babe Shalt wander ilk a cinch by lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags of ancient mountain, beneath the clouds, which image in their bulk some(prenominal) lakes and shores and mountain crags so shalt thou see and hear the lovely shapes and sounds intelligible of that eternal language (p. 345). He wants his child to have better childhood than he did. He wants his child to have to a greater extent and be better than he was a child. He says that he wants all seasons to be sweet for his child. In this poem he uses his 4 memory to tell a story 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 West Wind Percy Shelly is talking about a wedge that is termination to hit. In this poem he talks about being weighed down and he wants to be forfeit again. And he feels like th is combat will do that for him. In this poem he wants the pull to inspire 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. Memory is talked about in this poem when the talks about how he wants to be ree again.He wants to feel Joy and emotion again. He feels like this storm corporation do that for him thats why he wants it to come. In the poem he says The impulse of thy strength, only less free than thou, o rebellious If even I were as in my boyhood, and could be free the young man of thy wanderings over heaven, as then, when to outstrip the skiey speed scarce seemed a vision, I would neer have striven (as cited in Damrosch, 2004, p. 401). This says if he was in his 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 tone 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 Frost 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 make for certain 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 h e 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 happy 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 common 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 big storm that is about to his to describe how he feels in the poem. With both of these poem is shows 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 remem ber. 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.