Intellectualized Emotion
The young Parry put into his jottings that his favourite among them all was “my grand fugue in G major with three (own) subjects.”
“A man’s reach should exceed his grasp.” ~ Robert Browning
He kept on writing at the tough one though,
Quite like an ancient hero given task,
Task, task, and harder task. Thus muscles grow.
You do what music and your teachers ask
And do it even harder, do it more.
You take the thing and make it fuller, large,
More intricate, complete. You stretch a score.
You write a denser piece and make it charge
With extra power. He wrote a fugue of grand
Complexity of not just one, or two,
But triple subjects all his own. His hand
Grasped far beyond the teacher’s aims, too few.
..His century thought the major key of G
….Was for emotions of a staid degree.