#NIGHTGALE
BLOG CHALLENGE
4 stories, 200 words each, Thursdays in January
Please use the tag #nightgale for Twitter discussion
The challenge EVEN comes with an AWESOME BLOG BADGE
Immortality vs Mortality has been an intense topic through out the ages and especially with Romantic Poets. And I don’t mean romantic as in kisses, hearts, and flowers. I mean Romantic as in the time of Romanticism with William Blake, John Keats, and Percy Shelley. The time of Frankenstien and striving for the ellusive life everlasting through any means necessary.
As it will be a new year I decided that what better way to start it off than to embrace our fears and joys over our own mortality, isn’t that what everyone thinks about every new year? lol.
So for this Blog Challenge I issue you to create four stories 200 word minimum that includes a sort of journey or realization about immortality or the lack there of in striving for it.
In Keat’s poem Ode to a Nightingale and Shelley’s Hymn To Intellectual Beauty they try to acquire or become one with immortality in the following ways:
January 5th – PROMPT Through Hemlock
Keats: “That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim:”(Ode To A Nightingale)
Take Me to My Angel – “Little Colby tugged on my slacks as if the sight of my dress socks was too much for his small eyes to take in…” First prompt completed!
January 12th – PROMPT Immortality comes to you, you do not go to Immortality
Shelley- “Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate?… No voice from sublimer world hath ever, To sage or poet these responses given – Therefore the name of God and ghosts and Heaven, Remain the records of their vain endeavour,”(Hymn To Intellectual Beauty)
January 19th – PROMPT To Die and become one with Nature
Keats – “Darkling I listen, for many a time, I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call’d him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die;”(Ode To A Nightingale)
January 26th – PROMPT : Writing is Immortality
Keats – “But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retarts: Already with thee! Tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,”(Ode To a Nightingale)
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2) create a blog post about joining to spread the word
3) create your 4 master peices
4) be sure to check out everyone elses blog & comment on their stories