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Just read these words about the real moon and the dreaming moon by Ted Hughes... share it now...

In Poetry in the Making Hughes writes about the ›first version‹ of this book, The Earth-Owl and Other Moon-People:

»[...] the number and oddity of the creatures which inhabit the earth or the planets, are nothing to those which inhabit our minds, or perhaps I ought to say our dreams, or the worlds from which our dreams emerge, worlds presumably somewhere out beyond the bottom of our minds. Now it is a fact, deny it as you may, that one of the worlds from which our dreams come seems to be very like the moon. Nobody has ever been there except maybe one or two select madmen. We are satisfied that the real moon exists rolling about in the sky, but we have quite as much evidence for the existence.

When we read or hear an engaging story, Hughes thought, we make it part of our mental life. If it is well written and well conceived, we will »live« it. We will share in the protagonists' experiences through our Imagination. And a good story stays with us. Such stories »remain, part of the head that lives our life, and they grow as we grow«. [»Myth and Education« (II), 140] Hughes thought that a good story could even provide children with a kind of mental, behavioural and emotional blueprints for difficult situations that might occur later in life:

The theory behind all these stories [his Creation Tales] is that a parable of this kind, absorbed by a young reader, settles into the mind's foundations as a symbolic map, a template for future psychological
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[[星子安娜]]

Just read these words about the real moon and the dreaming moon by Ted Hughes... share it now...

In Poetry in the Making Hughes writes about the ›first version‹ of this book, The Earth-Owl and Other Moon-People:

&raquo;[...] the number and oddity of the creatures which inhabit the earth or the planets, are nothing to those which inhabit our minds, or perhaps I ought to say our dreams, or the worlds from which our dreams emerge, worlds presumably somewhere out beyond the bottom of our minds. Now it is a fact, deny it as you may, that one of the worlds from which our dreams come seems to be very like the moon. Nobody has ever been there except maybe one or two select madmen. We are satisfied that the real moon exists rolling about in the sky, but we have quite as much evidence for the existence.

When we read or hear an engaging story, Hughes thought, we make it part of our mental life. If it is well written and well conceived, we will &raquo;live&laquo; it. We will share in the protagonists' experiences through our Imagination. And a good story stays with us. Such stories &raquo;remain, part of the head that lives our life, and they grow as we grow&laquo;. [&raquo;Myth and Education&laquo; (II), 140] Hughes thought that a good story could even provide children with a kind of mental, behavioural and emotional blueprints for difficult situations that might occur later in life:

The theory behind all these stories [his Creation Tales] is that a parable of this kind, absorbed by a young reader, settles into the mind's foundations as a symbolic map, a template for future psychological
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com