one of these mornings you gonna rise up singing

[klena]

Just finished writing up notes about S.T. Coleridge and his friendship/lifelong partnership with Wordsworth and I stopped in the middle of writing notes because it was just sounding like Pete/Patrick to me. Or Pete/Mikey or Pete/Ryan at some points.

And now I want to write the fic. Because, oh my god, it is just...it's them. They bought houses beside each other and lived there their entire lives and would go for walks in the country discussing ideas for hours and had fights constantly but always resolved them and as;dka;dkasda THEIR RELATIONSHIP! And Coleridge (who is Pete) was ~tortured~ and ~talented~ and constantly singing the praises of Wordsworth as an artist and ~go into lots of trouble regarding the Revolution~ (the French one that is).

Here, have some snippets from my Coleridge notes:

"the collaberative effort between these two, of their different temperments and the works that were produced through the fusion of both their world views and styles changed poetry."

"Coleridge believed Wordsworth had the ability to produce a philosophical poem that would "discover truth by intuition" and this troubled Wordsworth. The pressure of this task ended up in him writing 'The Prelude' which acted like a conversation between the two across their lives until 1850 when Wordsworth died (Coleridge had died 15 years previous)"

"Wordsworth was a Child of the Enlightenment with a lingering rationale and materialistic streak whereas Coleridge was fraught, inspired by the Gothic with a focus on the supernatural and the spirit that was beyond Nature. He was a phenominal conversationalist. When speaking upon topics Hazlitt remarked it was like "he could glide along ice" or that he "floated on air".

"Whereas Wordsworth was antropological and Enlightened, Coleridge was cursed and focused on the world beyond....[regarding the similarities in 'Lyrical Ballads'] even though the tones were wholly different, both utilised the same key themes; the dangers of cutting oneself off from nature, the imprisonment of self and the dangers of unsocialabilty, as well as warnings about loneliness and the sins of Pride."

sdfsk;dlfks;flksd; SEE???

Is 'converting' to Atheism really the right term? Writing some notes and it just...feels like it doesn't fit properly into the line.

Updating icarusishappy in between lectures write ups with old fic from here so apologises for the raping of f-lists probably going on.

Comments

[marlinkhylacat]

Hmm....I'm not sure you'd say someone "converts" to atheism, since atheism isn't so much an organized system of belief as it is individual anti-belief...regardless of all the neat little compartments philosophy and theology classes try to force it into, haha. Though I'm not an atheist myself and don't follow the scene, so I couldn't tell you if atheism's recently become an organized movement of anti-movement. XD

[klena.livejournal.com]

You see, this is what I thought. I couldn't imagine that 'converting' is the correct terminology due to the fact that Atheism does not have a centralised structured belief system, in fact Atheism is almost entirely the opposite of that whole idea.

Yet, I'm still really confused as to what term I should use in reference to it!

[marlinkhylacat]

Hmm...maybe say the person is "adopting a perspective synonymous with atheism"? EYE DEE KAY. :D

[clarityhiding.livejournal.com]

*directs your attention to firedragon9*

She too ships Wordsworth/Coleridge. She babbles about it infrequently! (I would link you, but I think she has those entries f-locked? Sorry.) Go! Talk about your odd, odd love of historical literary figure RPS! :D

[klena.livejournal.com]

It is not odd! :(((( It is just the Wordsworth and Coleridge remind me of bandom and Pete/Patrick.

....okay maybe it is odd historical literary RPS. I shall go hit her about our strange fixation! :D

[clarityhiding.livejournal.com]

*pats* It's okay. Shakespeare wrote historical person RPF also. :D