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Updated: June 16, 2025
For instance, it would be quite impossible for the average child to get an idea from mere word-painting of the atmosphere of the polar regions as represented lately on the film in connection with Captain Scott's expedition, but any stories told later on about these regions would have an infinitely greater interest.
The familiar pictures of every-day life with which the sermon is frequently illustrated, the vivid word-painting, the tender but firm touch which plays upon the chords of their strongest emotions, all combine to awaken within them those feelings of pleasurable excitement, denied to them through the medium of the forbidden theatre.
Then, as now, there were many conflicting statements as to the movements of troops, and so forth, but the war correspondents had full rein to write as they pleased, and the efforts of some of them stand out in my memory today as marvels of word-painting and penned rhetoric.
In 1864 Tennyson published "Enoch Arden," an idyll of the hearth, depicting a pathetic incident in a seafarer's career, of much simple idyllic beauty. The poem has some fine descriptive passages, and many examples of the poet's rich word-painting in treating of the splendid tropic scenery among which the mariner is for the time cast.
Without this latter element higher mental development is lacking because this means more than word-painting the material world. Our school youth today suffer from just this defect. If their psychic operations can be called thought it is of that elementary and half animal kind that consists imagery. Their talk with each other is of things of present and immediate interest.
What in word-painting can exceed the following from an address by Robert G. Ingersoll? "A little while ago, I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, almost fit for a dead deity and gazed upon the sarcophagus of black Egyptian marble where rest the ashes of that restless man.
He thinks of externals and never dreams of looking for "inward light"; and the proof of this is that he seems never consciously to endeavour to express a mood, but strenuously seeks to depict images called up by the words he sets. It should be clearly understood that word-painting is not descriptive music. Descriptive music suggests to the ear, word-painting to the eye.
It was a curious experience for Jane, to hear herself described in Garth's vivid word-painting.
"Dear me! what an alarmingly refulgent person you depict!" laughed Maria Dolores, her eyes still on the wall. "I have no gift for word-painting," said John; "though I doubt if the words are yet invented that could fitly paint my lady. She grows in beauty day by day. It's a literal fact every fresh time I see her, she is perceptibly more lovely than the last, more love-compelling in her loveliness.
Bach used it too, and we find it the rainbow theme in "Das Rheingold" is an example in Wagner. But with these composers "word-painting," as it is called, seems always to be used for a special effect; whereas it is the very essence of Purcell's music.
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