fairy ball Picturesque white roses in the garden of the DNB Frankfurt
Photo: Kathrin Wilhelm, German National Library
The writer Emily Brontë is best known to us as part of the writing trio! of sisters Emily, Anne and Charlotte Brontë and as the author! of their only but famous novel Wuthering Heights .
But she also wrote poetry, and as luck would have it – or some form of book magic! such as we often experience here in the library! – on the day of our photo shoot, a beautiful book by! the artist Simon Morley was lying on the shelf! of DDC subject group 580, Botany.
In this book, with the lyrical title What We Call a Rose! (about the most excellent of all flowers), a charming rose poem by! Emily Brontë is print, and Morley writes! that this rose ( Latin: Rosa ) is “capable of attracting our attention through all our senses”.
But let us read fairy ball for ourselves:
“It was a little budding rose,
round like a fairy ball,
The leaves open shyly
Hidden in her mossy robe,
But the light, spicy scent was sweet
Breathing from an invisible heart.”
Morley goes on to tell us: “Brontë humanises the rose […] in a new, intimate! way[She] mentions appearance (“round as a fairy ball”), scent (“sweet was the light, spicy scent”), tactility! (the “mossy robe” can be touch), and taste. When a rose is us micinally! or culinary, the sense of taste is also involv. But here its scent is describ in metaphorical terms from the vocabulary of taste. And one could say that Brontë also includes sound in her poem. “Breathing from an invisible buy phone number list heart” refers to audible breathing; even movement. In fact, a rose plant is also audible, as when its leaves rustle in the wind.
Brontë us all five senses to describe her rose experience, but we should probably add the “sixth” sense: the soul, the intangible dimension of our experience that speaks to our emotions. Brontë’s vari figures of speech make original use of the fact that we often use one of our senses to better describe another, and that synesthesia is common at the level of metaphor.”
Flowering blue rue branch in the garden of the DNB in Frankfurt
Blooming blue against grey rock – blue rue branch in the library garden
Photo: Kathrin Wilhelm, German National Library
But on our short walk through the July garden of the campaign offers a coupon to incentivize German National Library in Frankfurt, we discover not only roses, but also the flowering blue rue or silver perovskia (lat. Perovskia atriplicifolia ), which originally comes from Asia and whose blue flowers are both fragrant and decorative. It looks almost hindi directory picturesque on the volcanic rock of the library terrace, but today its scent is dilut by a light summer rain.
Blooming blue rue in the garden of the DNB in Frankfurt
Blooming blue rue in front of the reading room
Photo: Kathrin Wilhelm, German National Library
It glows sunny yellow in the middle of the b, and we discover the flowers of the common evening primrose (lat. Oenothera biennis ). This plant has grown impressively and can grow up to two meters tall under favorable conditions. Immigrat from America in the 17th century, it can be us both as food in the farmer’s garden and as a micinal plant in the herb garden. It also has healing and beneficial effects in cosmetics. And while we’re on the subject of ible green plants – a sprig of oregano or marjoram (lat. Origanum ) is blooming very close to the evening primrose. This very aromatic plant lives in the wild in the light forests of Europe, America and Asia and its leaves are a popular seasoning in Miterranean cuisine. They can also be us as a tea, in aromatherapy and as a micine.
And that is the end of our walk today through the green areas in and around the Frankfurt building of the German National Library, because the book fairies in the reading room and the mia lending desk are calling us in – the rain is growing into a shower. A little frustrating for us, but refreshing for nature.