To be completely honest, I thought i sounded crazy. It seemed as though as i was just rambling on about random garbage. From "a change" coming over the waters to "the dreams of men". Everything i read seemed to be coming from out of no where and uncertain about where i was going. But, this was the first time i read it.
The second time i read the passage it began to open itself up to me more. The words began flowing together better and just everything about it became more enjoyable to me. From random "change" (by my understanding) to "the dreams of men", these now had a purpose and made sense. It seems that through the dreams of men, dreams were fulfilled and adventures were documented. Without dreams, man would have never forged the seas and conquered the americas, and none of this would exist today.
It's interesting how very lost we can feel as readers when we don't know what on earth is going on - when we pick up a text and don't know who wrote it, what it's from, what came before it, who's talking, etc.
ReplyDelete(This passage is from "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad, and it's about the river Thames in London, and how it has carried generations of explorers and armies and people out to sea).