Sometimes I pick up one of Shakespeare’s works and flip through pages; for example Macbeth, Midsummer Night’s Dream or Romeo and Juliet. Sometimes I find sentences that resonate. On this occasion, a few lines of a poem drew my attention. Shakespeare’s poems or just a couple of empathetic lines, do tend to present a special message.
An excerpt from Shakespeare’s ‘The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII’
Act III Scene I.
‘Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain tops that freeze,
Bow themselves when he did sing;
To his music plants and flowers
Ever sprung, as sun and showers
There had made a lasting spring.’
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Orpheus – a mythical Greek musician and poet who could move inanimate objects by the music of his lyre. There’s just something special about the composition. The words inspire imagination.
Reading the poem a few times indeed expands imagination. Memorising the poem and reciting it with eyes closed, opens up a special dimension of times past.
