03-18-2012, 08:10 AM
It definitely could use more substance. I think the problem was the initial focus was not the forest, but the person, and this person just happen to reside in this forest. As we are looking at over 1500 years of time gone between then and now, I did not consider including more personal details about the person, or his environment, as they were long gone. All that remained was a spirit looking down on his former home. The idea was, not only was this once great forest gone for him, but also for us as the Black is only about 1/10th the size and lacks much of the extremely large old growth Oak.
I feel certain I will revisit this subject in a more in depth way, but without the rhyming couplets, or at least with longer lines if I do. I think I could not add much as this form is already supporting about as much as it can handle. Feel free to use the idea for yourself. I suspect there is a fair amount of information on this forest. This quote from the Wiki article points you in the right direction (link below):
"During the time of Julius Caesar, this forest blocked the advance of the Roman legions into Germania. His few statements are the most definitive. In De Bello Gallico[9] he says that the forest stretches along the Danube from the territory of the Helvetii (present-day Switzerland) to Dacia (present-day Romania). Its implied northern dimension is nine days' march. Its eastern dimension is indefinitely more than sixty days' march. The concept fascinated him, even the old tales of unicorns (which may have represented reindeer). Caesar's references to moose and aurochs and of elk without joints which leaned against trees to sleep in the endless forests of Germania, were probably later interpolations in his Commentaries. Caesar's name for the forest is the one most used: Hercynia Silva."
"Pliny the Elder, in Natural History, places the eastern regions of the Hercynium jugum, the "Hercynian mountain chain", in Pannonia (present-day Hungary) and Dacia (present-day Romania. He also gives us some dramaticised description of its composition, in which the close proximity of the forest trees causes competitive struggle among them (inter se rixantes). He mentions its gigantic oaks."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercynian_Forest
Dale
I feel certain I will revisit this subject in a more in depth way, but without the rhyming couplets, or at least with longer lines if I do. I think I could not add much as this form is already supporting about as much as it can handle. Feel free to use the idea for yourself. I suspect there is a fair amount of information on this forest. This quote from the Wiki article points you in the right direction (link below):
"During the time of Julius Caesar, this forest blocked the advance of the Roman legions into Germania. His few statements are the most definitive. In De Bello Gallico[9] he says that the forest stretches along the Danube from the territory of the Helvetii (present-day Switzerland) to Dacia (present-day Romania). Its implied northern dimension is nine days' march. Its eastern dimension is indefinitely more than sixty days' march. The concept fascinated him, even the old tales of unicorns (which may have represented reindeer). Caesar's references to moose and aurochs and of elk without joints which leaned against trees to sleep in the endless forests of Germania, were probably later interpolations in his Commentaries. Caesar's name for the forest is the one most used: Hercynia Silva."
"Pliny the Elder, in Natural History, places the eastern regions of the Hercynium jugum, the "Hercynian mountain chain", in Pannonia (present-day Hungary) and Dacia (present-day Romania. He also gives us some dramaticised description of its composition, in which the close proximity of the forest trees causes competitive struggle among them (inter se rixantes). He mentions its gigantic oaks."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercynian_Forest
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.