Romantismo puro

"I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard," he remarked ere long. "And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?"

"You are no ruin, sir - no lightning-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop."
Jane Eyre . Charlotte Bronte

Já tinha aqui referido o carácter sedutor do Castanheiro-da-Índia, mas a impressionante visão da ruína deste Castanheiro é uma imagem real e trágica do mais puro e duro romantismo.