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THE NORMAL RECORD. It was the chief aim of the "Idylls" to show how the world without God rushes down to "red ruin and the breaking up of laws." In the idyl of Guinevere, Tennyson's genius reached its highest point. The interview between Arthur and his fallen queen is marked by a moral sublimity and a tragic intensity which move the soul as nobly as any scene in modern literature. Here the art is pure and the effect produced by the simplest means, and all is just, natural and grand. " Yet think not that I come to urge thy crimes, I did not come to curse thee, Guinevere, I, whose vast pity almost makes me die To see thee, laying there thy golden head, My pride in happier summers, at my feet. The wrath which forced my thoughts on that fierce law The doom of treason and the flaming death, (When first I learnt thee hidden here) is past, Tha pang—which while I weigh'd thy heart with one Too wholly true to dream untruth in thee, Made my tears burn-—is also past, in part. And all is past, the sin is sinn'd, and I, Lo! I forgive thee, as Eternal God Forgives: do thou for thine own soul the rest." In Arthur we find the embodiment of many worthy deeds and acts, yet he relied upon God and ever made it his sole aim to do His will in all things, even the smallest. In him we find a man possessed of the highest moral and religious characteristics. The divine element of his forgiveness is almost beyond compare, since the one he pardons has blasted his every hope, ruined his life, and weakened his house. Yet by no word or act does he curse or judge her, but forgives as Eternal God forgives, though she has so cruelly and deeply wronged him. The aimlessness of the world was the note of the somber but powerful diatribe whiih Tennyson gave to the world in his closing years: " Bring the old dark ages back, without the faith, without the hope; Break the State, the Church, the Throne, and roll their ruins down the slope. Author, atheist, essayist, novelist, realist, rhymster, play your part. Paint the mortal shame of nature with the living hues of art. Rip your brother's vices open, strip your own foul passions bare; Down with Reticense, down with Reverence, forward, naked, let them stare. Feed the budding rose of boyhood with the drainage of your sewer; Send,the drain into the fountain lest the stream should issue pure. Set the maiden fancies wallowing in the troughs of Zolaism; Downward, forward, ay, and backward, downward too, in the abysm." Tennyson, in his last years, ever clung ab solutely fast to the larger hope expressed in these lines: "That good should fall At last, far off, at last; to all, And every winter turns to spring; That nothing walks with aimless feet, That not one life could be destroyed Or cast as rubbish in the void When God has made the pile complete." We find him here expressing the thought that God cares for the least of all His creatures and that all are guided by Him so none can be destroyed. There can be no aimlessness with God present and good shall fall alike on all. He ends his great " In Mememoriam " with these words: "That God, who ever lives and moves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves." To this religion his poems were utterly faithful, and this faith they kept whole and undefiled. Yet he has not rudely trenched upon truth and love, but with great delicacy has expressed his emotions. He ha.s gleaned from both history and nature what was more lofty and amiable and has risen to the height of noble and tender sentiments. He may be read in the lowliest cot, yet he does not rebel against society and life, but speaks of God and the soul, nobly, tenderly. He uses the simplest and purest of sentiments so that we are not troubled when we lay him aside, but may listen to the common expressions of thought
Object Description
Title | The Normal Record. March 1902 |
Original Date | 1902-03 |
Description | The Record. Published by the Associated Students of Chico State College. |
Creator | Chico State College |
Location of Original | Archives |
Call Number | LD723 C57 |
Digital Collection | The Record: Chico State Yearbook Collection |
Digital Repository | Meriam Library, California State University, Chico. |
Description-Abstract | The Record served as both a student magazine and a commencement program for Chico Normal School. In the year 1902 it was published every month - except the Summer months of July and August. |
Date Digital | 2013 |
Language | eng |
Rights | For information on the use of the images in this collection contact the Special Collections Department at 530.898-6342 or email: specialcollections@csuchico.edu |
Format | image/tiff |
Filename | index.cpd |
Description
Title | 1902_03_NormalRecord_010 |
Original Date | 1902-03 |
OCR- Transcript | THE NORMAL RECORD. It was the chief aim of the "Idylls" to show how the world without God rushes down to "red ruin and the breaking up of laws." In the idyl of Guinevere, Tennyson's genius reached its highest point. The interview between Arthur and his fallen queen is marked by a moral sublimity and a tragic intensity which move the soul as nobly as any scene in modern literature. Here the art is pure and the effect produced by the simplest means, and all is just, natural and grand. " Yet think not that I come to urge thy crimes, I did not come to curse thee, Guinevere, I, whose vast pity almost makes me die To see thee, laying there thy golden head, My pride in happier summers, at my feet. The wrath which forced my thoughts on that fierce law The doom of treason and the flaming death, (When first I learnt thee hidden here) is past, Tha pang—which while I weigh'd thy heart with one Too wholly true to dream untruth in thee, Made my tears burn-—is also past, in part. And all is past, the sin is sinn'd, and I, Lo! I forgive thee, as Eternal God Forgives: do thou for thine own soul the rest." In Arthur we find the embodiment of many worthy deeds and acts, yet he relied upon God and ever made it his sole aim to do His will in all things, even the smallest. In him we find a man possessed of the highest moral and religious characteristics. The divine element of his forgiveness is almost beyond compare, since the one he pardons has blasted his every hope, ruined his life, and weakened his house. Yet by no word or act does he curse or judge her, but forgives as Eternal God forgives, though she has so cruelly and deeply wronged him. The aimlessness of the world was the note of the somber but powerful diatribe whiih Tennyson gave to the world in his closing years: " Bring the old dark ages back, without the faith, without the hope; Break the State, the Church, the Throne, and roll their ruins down the slope. Author, atheist, essayist, novelist, realist, rhymster, play your part. Paint the mortal shame of nature with the living hues of art. Rip your brother's vices open, strip your own foul passions bare; Down with Reticense, down with Reverence, forward, naked, let them stare. Feed the budding rose of boyhood with the drainage of your sewer; Send,the drain into the fountain lest the stream should issue pure. Set the maiden fancies wallowing in the troughs of Zolaism; Downward, forward, ay, and backward, downward too, in the abysm." Tennyson, in his last years, ever clung ab solutely fast to the larger hope expressed in these lines: "That good should fall At last, far off, at last; to all, And every winter turns to spring; That nothing walks with aimless feet, That not one life could be destroyed Or cast as rubbish in the void When God has made the pile complete." We find him here expressing the thought that God cares for the least of all His creatures and that all are guided by Him so none can be destroyed. There can be no aimlessness with God present and good shall fall alike on all. He ends his great " In Mememoriam " with these words: "That God, who ever lives and moves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves." To this religion his poems were utterly faithful, and this faith they kept whole and undefiled. Yet he has not rudely trenched upon truth and love, but with great delicacy has expressed his emotions. He ha.s gleaned from both history and nature what was more lofty and amiable and has risen to the height of noble and tender sentiments. He may be read in the lowliest cot, yet he does not rebel against society and life, but speaks of God and the soul, nobly, tenderly. He uses the simplest and purest of sentiments so that we are not troubled when we lay him aside, but may listen to the common expressions of thought |