literary landscapes

just finished reading david copperfield
i was inspired to go to this classic after hearing it
continually referenced in the cider house rules.

it now has a place on the same esteemed shelf as
jane eyre & wuthering heights in my mind.

i am immediately drawn in by the epic wordplay
in these classic novels, every emotion is expertly
driven home through the most carefully crafted sentences..

i am reminded of the theater in the way each feeling
is elaborately costumed in verbiage for the maximum effect.
perhaps these famous authors had less faith in their audience
leaving little to the imagination...

even the landscapes are drenched with emotion,
often used for forshadowing purposes.
here david copperfield describes an ominous sky..

"it was a murky confusion--here and there blotted with
a colour like the colour of the smoke from damp fuel--
of flying clouds, tossed up into most remarkable heaps,
suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were
depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows
in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge
headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature,
she had lost her way and were frightened."