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Good Morning Porch "reason for

From: Eve
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Remote Name: 24.116.87.108
Date: 09-Oct-2002
Time: 01:05 PM

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I posted the picture below, one morning when I came on the board after I had been here for about a week or two. Mickey called me right away and ask me who my favorite artists were. I told him, Waterhouse, Monet, Renoir etc. He said he was so amazed because those one the exact same ones he loved. He said he had seen this painting with the words underneath, at the Tate gallery when he was staioned in England when he was in the Air Force. Then we got on the subject of poetry and when I told him my favorites, they turned out to be his too. He asked me to put more on for him and that is how my "Good Morning Porch" post actually started. It was a way of letting him know that I was posting a poem or a pic, sometimes both. It would just make my day when he would call or email and tell me how much he loved whatever I had chosen for that day. I hope I brought some joy to his day. I know he did to mine.

Tennyson's poem "The Lady of Shallott" published in 1883 tells of a woman suffering under an undisclosured curse,and living isolated in a tower near King arthur's castle. She is allowed to see the outside world ony through its reflection in a mirror. One day she glimpses the handsome knight Lancelot reflected and cannot resist looking at him directly. The punishment that follows results in her drifting in her boat downstream to Camelot singing her last song but dying before reaching there. Waterhouse shows her letting go the boats chains, while staring at the curcifix, placed in front of the three glittering candles. This imagianary figure is set in a high naturalistic landscape. --description from Tate Gallery...

http://images.andale.com/f2/115/106/1167789/1034186001164_the_lady_of_shalott02.jpg

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