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Describe Helen's love for poetry.
What were the difficulties faced by Helen while at Radcliffe College.
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Helen’s wish to join Radcliffe College was fulfilled in the
fall of 1900 after a considerable effort. She was so excited at the prospect of
studying with girls who could see and hear. She began her studies with
eagerness hoping to find a reality match to her world of imagination at the
college. The lecture-halls seemed filled with the spirit of the great and the
wise, and she thought the professors were the embodiment of wisdom. However, a
bitter disillusionment awaited her. She soon discovered that college was not
quite the romantic place she had imagined. Helen expresses her disillusionment
in the following words: “Many of the dreams that had delighted my young
inexperience became beautifully less and "faded into the light of common
day." Gradually I began to find that there were disadvantages in going to
college.”
Helen felt at college there was lack of time. Learning was
imparted at a fast pace without considering whether it was being imbibed or
not. Inside the class Helen felt ‘practically alone’. The professor appeared to
be as remote as if he were speaking through a telephone. The lectures were
spelled into her hand as rapidly as possible, and much of the individuality of
the lecturer was lost to her in the effort to keep in the race. Helen describes the hurry in the following
simile: “The words rush through my hand like hounds in pursuit of a hare which
they often miss.”
So we see Helen was not much impressed with her experience
at Radcliffe College.
It seems strange that my first reading of Shakespeare should have left me so many unpleasant memories. The bright, gentle, fanciful plays--the ones I like best now--appear not to have impressed me at first, perhaps because they reflected the habitual sunshine and gaiety of a child's life. But "there is nothing more capricious than the memory of a child: what it will hold, and what it will lose."
helens love for POETRY:
I have since read Shakespeare's plays many times and know parts of them by heart, but I cannot tell which of them I like best. My delight in them is as varied as my moods. The little songs and the sonnets have a meaning for me as fresh and wonderful as the dramas. But, with all my love for Shakespeare, it is often weary work to read all the meanings into his lines which critics and commentators have given them. I used to try to remember their interpretations, but they discouraged and vexed me; so I made a secret compact with myself not to try any more. This compact I have only just broken in my study of Shakespeare under Professor Kittredge. I know there are many things in Shakespeare, and in the world, that I do not d; and I am glad to see veil after veil lift gradually, revealing new realms of thought and beauty.
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