One of the greatest writers of the Renaissance, Francis Bacon, wrote a very powerful essay titled "
Of Studies." I found the essay engaging as it gave substance to what we engage in every day as students. There are so many powerful quotes in this essay and I recommend it to anyone. What I thought was interesting was the power that he attributed to words. In our classical civ. class we talked about how the Renaissance brought back a deeper understanding of the power of language through the study of Latin. Words really do hold power and the way we use and study them can change a person in so many ways.
Another
article talks about the evolution of print. Not just what it was like before or after a big change like the printing press, but what actually happened during those changes. The article talks about how we are going through another revolution in print today and the same chaos that accompanied the introduction of the printing press is rampant in our day. I found an interesting
blog that talks about how the decline of traditional journalism may be more of an opportunity for journalists than it may appear.The power of words has not diminished at all.
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The picture above is a result of my exploration on the power of words. I found this program online and I took part of Francis Bacon's essay and inserted it into the program called
Wordle.This program creates basically a piece of art from words in the essay. What I like about it is the way that rearranging the words can give so much more meaning to the words used. Even though common words are omitted, "studies" remains the focus while the words surrounding it give an idea of what the soul of the essay is all about. What an incredible thing, the power of words.
This is incredible, my friend! Awesome post!
ReplyDeleteHonestly, during class, I had a hard time understanding what it meant that words have power. You portray it quite nicely here! If we rearrange the words, we will have so much more meaning to the sentence, put the emphasis on desired nouns! Just looking at your picture, I pick up big and important words like studies, natural, delight, much. Already, I have a picture of what you were trying to express...more or less.
that's incredible!
Thanks for sharing this post. Words are powerful. After reading your post, I thought to read Elder Holland's talk on The Tongue of Angels. Here is the link to it: http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=493785aa6bf22110VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=f318118dd536c010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD.
ReplyDeleteElder Holland quotes Joseph Smith as saying, “It is by words...[that] every being works when he works by faith." Now that is power! Our words can create amazing, currently unimaginable things. I think this is why we are counseled to study from the best books and to bridle our tongues because we destroy the spirit and creativity of others with negativity.
Thanks again for your thoughts.
Hey thanks for that. My little sister is a freshman here and she wrote a note on facebook which i thought was amazing. She used words very eloquently to convey her feelings. Now i want to re-arrange her words and give it back to her in a different way.
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