https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ATFC1OAZT4
When I play this in class while students read, I explain the literary topos of the lark and show how the violin in this piece symbolizes the lark's rising. Every so often I will get a request for it later on.
Here is Shakespeare's sonnet that references the lark:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174357
And here is George Meredith's poem that actually inspired Williams:
http://www.bartleby.com/246/680.html
Speaking of poetry, a student has an assignment in Creative Writing to research a poet and asked me I I cold be that poet. Neat!
When I play this in class while students read, I explain the literary topos of the lark and show how the violin in this piece symbolizes the lark's rising. Every so often I will get a request for it later on.
Here is Shakespeare's sonnet that references the lark:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174357
And here is George Meredith's poem that actually inspired Williams:
http://www.bartleby.com/246/680.html
Speaking of poetry, a student has an assignment in Creative Writing to research a poet and asked me I I cold be that poet. Neat!
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