Lately I have been posting about doing better with winter darkness. It seemed desirable to look for a visual metaphor on the internet. It was fun to shop around and try to find the perfect one.
The visual metaphor needs to express how one's imagination during reading can take the mind into the great outside world, as an antidote to the closed-in, cloistered, depressed feeling a person can get during too many hours of darkness. Here is the best one that I found.
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| from twenty20.com |
Perhaps the photo should have had a cat looking out the window?
It would nice to think of the perfect musical metaphor for this same idea, but I can't come up with anything.
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The introduction at the site:
"The winter, nowadays referred to as 'winter wonderland' in our Christmas carols, was once synonymous with natural disasters and famine. At the same time, however, it has always been – in the past even more so than today – a time of reflection and coming to oneself. Its connotation thus moves between the extremes of existential fear and inner peace, isolation and coming closer together, resignation and utopia. This is also reflected in the musical exploration of winter."
However, still having a problem try this address:
https://literaturplanetonline.com/2021/01/04/musikalische-winterreise-musical-winter-journey/
then scroll down until you see "Winter Journey Herunterladen". Click on Winter Journey. Good luck the site is in German, with English translations for parts of it.