Symbioverse

Date: 23 July 2024
Time: 5pm
Obsidian Tags: #practicenote
Place: Grasmere, Lake District

Visual: A black and white drawing of William Wordsworth in an hourglass, flanked by trees and roots.
Audio: An original composition, “Courage, Grasmere”, featuring piano, orchestra and synthesisers.

Studio Notes:

Today I work my way further through Book IV of the Prelude, composing with the following excerpt.

In this endeavour simply to relate
A Poet’s history, may I leave untold
The thankfulness with which I laid me down
In my accustomed bed, more welcome now
Perhaps than if it had been more desired
Or been more often thought of with regret;
That lowly bed whence I had heard the wind
Roar and the rain beat hard, where I so oft
Had lain awake on summer nights to watch
The moon in splendour couched among the leaves
Of a tall ash, that near our cottage stood;
Had watched her with fixed eyes while to and fro
In the dark summit of the waving tree
She rocked with every impulse of the breeze.

Critical Reflections