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A review by foraging_pages
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Read for my Deep Mapping seminar class.
I don’t know how to rate this. The beginning is not good, the middle is amazing, and the ending is good.
The Song of the Lark has some of the most beautiful quotes I have ever had the pleasure of reading. The way Cather describes nature and her characters interacting with nature is divinely moving and comforting.
With that being said, the beginning of the novel is strange and nothing much happens for the first one hundred pages. Once Thea makes is out of her hometown of Moonstone, Colorado and to the lights and high society of Chicago, things pick up. From Chicago she travels to other rural and urban locations to inspire herself.
I love the juxtaposition within Thea; she is a country girl with a great singing talent but she yearns for the big city to begin her career. She goes back and forth with finding inspiration within nature and rurality to feeling suffocated by it.
We see Thea grow from a twelve year old with a gift to a renowned opera singer known from Europe to New York City. Loved by many men, Thea stayed single in pursuit of her passionate artistry. That fact is definitely a unique one in the late 1890s when the story is supposed to take place.
I will likely read Cather again in the future. My professor recommends The Professor’s House.
I don’t know how to rate this. The beginning is not good, the middle is amazing, and the ending is good.
The Song of the Lark has some of the most beautiful quotes I have ever had the pleasure of reading. The way Cather describes nature and her characters interacting with nature is divinely moving and comforting.
With that being said, the beginning of the novel is strange and nothing much happens for the first one hundred pages. Once Thea makes is out of her hometown of Moonstone, Colorado and to the lights and high society of Chicago, things pick up. From Chicago she travels to other rural and urban locations to inspire herself.
I love the juxtaposition within Thea; she is a country girl with a great singing talent but she yearns for the big city to begin her career. She goes back and forth with finding inspiration within nature and rurality to feeling suffocated by it.
We see Thea grow from a twelve year old with a gift to a renowned opera singer known from Europe to New York City. Loved by many men, Thea stayed single in pursuit of her passionate artistry. That fact is definitely a unique one in the late 1890s when the story is supposed to take place.
I will likely read Cather again in the future. My professor recommends The Professor’s House.