William Henry Teale writes that the yellow house is his locus amoenus – an idyllic location. Why do you suppose he felt this way? Does it seem ideal to you? What type of place would you consider your locus amoenus?
Created: 10/19/23
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William Henry Teale writes that the yellow house is his locus amoenus – an idyllic location. Why do you suppose he felt this way? Does it seem ideal to you? What type of place would you consider your locus amoenus?
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I feel like WHT was, by nature, an introspective loner, and as such it was an ideal place to him because he could be himself and live his life as he chose, more or less. Plus it was beautiful!
I'm not sure I believe in an ideal place, since anywhere one goes there are challenges. Being a bit of a loner myself, though, I think I'd be happiest either in a location similar to the yellow house - far away from people and in the midst of nature - or living in an apartment or condo in a large city, where amenities are handy but one can still be pretty much anonymous.
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I think WHT felt put-upon by requests from others for paintings that he did not want to paint. At the yellow house and its surrounding fields and forests he was alive to the natural world around him and was able to paint what he saw and loved rather than those things that others required of him.
As for me, a location is ideal if I cannot hear my neighbors yelling or playing their music too loud and my dwelling contains my books and my fabric and sewing machine and at least one dog and a couple of cats.
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It was the enhancement of the yellow house in combination with the surrounding nature that caused
William to find his home & heart entwined. My idyllic location is a library. This has been true for me since I was a little child. The library was a magical place of inspiration and peacefulness.
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