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Show 132 HANDBOOK FOR TEACHERS OF INTERPRETATION by the instructor and here put more specifically into practice. Tragedy means the defeat of the individual by his environment; comedy would be the overcoming of the environment by the indi vidual. SUGGESTED (Purpose: SELECTIONS-DRAMATIC To Make the Audience Feel Conflict Deeply and Truly, to Arouse Emotion) Elementary: The Revenge of Hamish The Highwayman PAGE Sidney Lanier Alfred Noyes 184 89 Advanced: Pauline Pavlovna Thomas The Sorrow of Rohab Number 3 the Docket on Allegory. Aldrich 170 Arlo Bates 195 Amy Lowell 151 Bailey "A figurative treatment of a subject not expressly guise of another having analogous properties or circumstances; usually a sentence, discourse, or narrative osten sibly relating to material things or circumstances, but intended as an exposition of others of a more spiritual or recondite nature hav ing some resemblance to the former.-CENTURY DICTIONARY. mentioned under the Difficulties. reader must be This is always no doubt our most in the realm of the difficult form. The spiritual; the reader must shoot through a physical must story a spiritual meaning; the reader translate the literal ideas of the printed page into great spiritual truths. Attitude, action, voice all take on a loftiness, a things. It must ring true, but never drop to the ordinary, the commonplace. This double translation-a translation from the printed page and a translation of things temporal to things spiritual-should be given a good deal of practice. It is no light thing one is doing, and it is Take care not to assume, or have the stu no easy thing to do. dents get the sepulchral, pectoral voice, or the cant-y manner of the too usual reading of the Bible. Make the spiritual truth tell above the literal story. By voice and gesture, project the literal soulful exultation not felt in other |
