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Show CHAPTER III SECOND AIM: "M ost readers, like ATMOSPHERE good natured cows, forever b.rowse; and Keep browsing If a fair flower come in their way, They take it, too, nor ask, uWhat pray!" Like other fodder it is food, And for the stomach quite as good." it is also necessary enough to know what to say but is largely i to know how to say it, and the art of saying things -ARISTOTLE. fluenced in imparting certain color to speech." than any other, mani "This element of expression, perhaps more "It is not inasmuch as the at fests the artistic nature of the reader; artistic, sensitiveness of the reader to mosphere, or vocal color, shows the moved by the contemplation of the sense stimuli; shows that he is the pathetic."-S. H. CLARK. beautiful, the sublime, the tender, I repeat are the elements of "Sensibility, sympathy, enthusiasm, the moral, and the religious atmosphere in whick the intellectual, and healthily grow, and, in' nature of a child can alone germinate later years, bloom and shed wholesome a fragrance."-HIRAM CORSON. Our first aim, purpose, if fully of Atmosphere. will lead easily to a clear comprehended, digested, and practiced, atmosphere; moreover, this aim of the second Definition step, understanding will even more specifically and clearly unify the literary selection it differentiates one selection from another. It than will purpose, is born of mind, will give spiritual motive to the selection. Purpose is that mind Atmosphere of born plus feeling. atmosphere is within us through which we see medium mental and spiritual It acts in the same way upon literature as the form. as literary surrounds us acts upon the landscape; physical atmosphere which horizon every day, varies the our modifies physical atmosphere sun or moon, picturesquely di of scene with the changing light or night, in fact plays versifies our view each minute of the day Charles Parsons, the great the earth like a kaleidoscope. a upon 70 |
