Reading Response Shelley/Wenderoth

According to Shelley, Wenderoth simply went beyond reason and applied imagination to his personification of Wendy. When I read the book "Letters to Wendy's" I was bombarded with thoughts that had never crossed my mind, and Shelley writes that "[imagination is] mind acting upon those thoughts so as to colour them with it's own light". As reason has it, Wendoroth and I have both seen the neon lit sign of Dave Thomas's grandaughter and know that it stands for biggies, food, and 99 cent baked potatoes. But that is where our perception of the sign ends, unless by come chance we have the same imagination. Seeing as I've never dreamed of licking Wendy's asshole that scenario is null and void. Wenderoth colors the sign with his own experience and desires, and me my own. It is like when Shelley wrote "man is an instrument over which a series of external and internal impressions are driven, like the wind over an Aeolian lyre". The instrument, man, is physically the same, yet the sounds that come out of it and perceptions of what goes into it are drastically different.