Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 220 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing, reading, and thinking on a weekly basis in an informal setting.
In regards to the Diet Mountain Dew discussion that we had the other day, I thought it was interesting to mention that there are two groups of words that the author has repetitively used to start the sentences of some of his stanzas. This would consist of “I have built my ship of death” and “A green like no other green”. It’s obvious that the author has an obsession of the color “green” and death itself, or at least a personal connection to these two concepts.
As everyone continued on with their amusing discussion, I was gradually convinced that it may not be two separate concepts, but rather that the author sees these concepts as one and the same. Many of us would draw connections with the color “red” with the concepts anger, blood, hell, lust (ex: lipstick), or even nightmares. However, It depends on factors such as differing cultures that leads us to draw such connections. Perhaps, the author saw the world differently to how it’s usually seen in regards to colors. Perhaps the color “grey” may appear to be a symbol of “livelihood” whereas rainbows may be a symbol of despair in his perception.
In regards to the stanza that caught my attention in the poem was the third stanza. I believe that it refers to an ordinary group of fresh leaves that one would always notice yet take for granted. However, due to the author’s mentioning of the color “green”, it may have been denoting any green-colored plant within our environment. May it be mere grass or trees. Admittedly, we would all attach our gazes unto trees only because we’re just staring off into space with our minds aimlessly wandering about. Though this un-familial yet traditional pattern within many humans would be hindered by someone that does care about such greenly details. This would be the case of the photographer mentioned in the stanza, who took his time to appreciate such an usual image in its entirety via taking a picture. The author’s frequent mention of the color green may refer to the livelihood of the mentioned environment, as opposed to his other obsession with the concept of death. I admit that this serves nothing more but a contradiction to what I said earlier.
It’s difficult to discern unless we lived his life with the exact factors included. He may simply love the soda with that name. Perhaps, it was nothing more but a homework written at the last moment before his English professor punishes him.
Maybe, he wished to die in a manner that satisfies him. Drinking a liquid that’s laced with many questionable yet digestible chemicals, that can definitely cause bodily problems if drank irresponsibly. Yet, despite such possibly chemical atrocities, he was seduced by the color that it brings. He just seemed so excited to reach his destination: death. I can’t tell if he was referring to his body as the “ship of death” or that the consumed liquid itself is the ship. Was it the journey or the destination? Perhaps, he simply likes the result that it brings to him. A colorful ending. A green-colored death.
I'm sorry if this sounds all over the place. I'm also sorry for the length. The poem confuses me so much that my mind is like a compass that's spiraling out of control. The flaws of inexperience, I'm afraid. Frankly, I didn't even know there was DIET Mountain Dew, or maybe I always missed the "diet" part of the name whenever I had the chance to drink it. Ironic, I'm just like a person with grass and trees, taking things for granted.
(just testing things out, due to the massive mess I just made.)
Don't be mean to yourself! I really appreciated reading your exploration of the poem, and I'm sure Donnelly would too. Besides, it's fun to dissect our way through the cloud of mystique his work offered us. So thanks for setting an example for us by putting yourself out there.
The associations that poets use to link their words together are deeply subjective and say a lot about the role of symbolism in our lives- how it acts as a filter. I think Donnelly's intent with the Mountain Dew poem was to playfully make this point, and how we fail to see without this filter, and how this has power over us.
In a poem, symbolism appears as a constellation of these associations, and we rearrange them so that they are reflective of our own private worlds. Our interpretations of a poem are expressive of aspects of ourselves, unknown or not (generally the former). Did you notice how in class we all had different opinions on what Donnelly was trying to say? I personally believed he was owning his fears of being alone and facing a storm, channeling rage and despair...and that's so me to project catharsis like that. Others obviously felt differently about his work. We wound up debating whether it was about Mountain Dew or not. So it's like symbolism teases us as though to distract us from the raw, complete truth hiding behind it all. At the same time, it brings us closer together in our exploration of it so I don't mind symbolism much at all. : ) Some of Donnelly's lines, such as the one about the ship, reminded me of Dylan Thomas or Sylvia Plath or even Poe and I couldn't believe that we were being assigned to read an actual cool poem in school. Like someone else said in class, I find it "appalling" that it could all possibly be about Mountain Dew. I think he had profound things in there that he mixed-up with the rest of it intentionally, but even if it was self-sabotage...figuring it out doesn't matter and we'll never know what he was on when he wrote it. I think at the end of the day Donnelly's poem was heavy on audience-consideration. From his reading we watched, it wouldn't surprise me if he was (heavy judgment alert!) a pretentious little schmooze-ball like that : ) Maybe he did this because he thought it would satisfy him to die this way.
Let me know what you think, Syed, as well as the rest of you.
Hello, Ms. Stacy/schist. Thank you for replying and I apologize for the delay in my response. I was sick.
I get the feeling that Donnelly might respond with a "huh, I never thought of that". As there are 7 billion humans, there are also 7 billion completely unique interpretations as well as the process of how such are formed. I agree that it's fun, but I must confess that it's also quite stressful. XD
You say that symbolism acts as a filter, which is quite intriguing as I've never thought of that before. If symbolism is meant to be filter, then what is the thing that's supposed to be filtered out? What's being left out and what's meant to remain?
I agree with your beautiful description of symbolism within poems. It's hard NOT to notice all of their different opinions in regards to the topic. I was interested in understanding what factors were included for each of these individuals in our class to form their respective opinions. What led to them to say this or that, and will I be able to succeed in understanding a mere fraction of them all even when I keep my own experiences? So it fascinates me to hear their opinions. As one would see a piece of gum between two pebbles, another would see a rock in the middle of a large canyon.
That's kinda funny, in a way. You believed there was rage, fear, and despair that was involved. I believed that there was relief, excitement, reassurance, pleasure, and satisfaction to found when facing death in the eye. Though that may just correlate with my own life experiences as your opinions may possibly correlate to your own.
I so agree with the distraction part. An amazing choice of words that rings well to the heart. Perhaps, not knowing the truth at all is what draws together. It's like a large group of college dorm buddies surrounded by a large white room. They don't know how it originally looked, but are willing to work together to paint it to see if they can mimic closer to the original coloring of the room. In the middle of it all, they find enjoyment as each of them paint their interpretations. Symbolism is a beautiful construct created by humans, and there are symbols made for everything, and for everyone. Whether they're necessary or not, depends on each of us.
It would honestly drive me insane and outraged if it was something so simple. However, that is one of the things we'll be forced to accept in life. XD A tree is a tree, no matter how you look at it.
I get the feeling he didn't want anyone to figure it out so easily. I feel like he wants it to be memorable, to get stuck into the back of our heads like a parasite. If you found a treasure map that directly told you where the treasure is and what it exactly contains, then it wouldn't be so fun nor exciting. It wouldn't even give us a chance to add our own expectations, may they be optimistic or pessimistic. That is what I believe to be the treasure. Our own expectations and interpretations of his creation. It would be boring if we already knew what it was immediately after finishing the poem. To us, it would be just another reading assignment or poem that we finished, and nothing more than that. We would leave and move forward without even remembering a thing about this poem. I feel like the author knows that it was going to happen in such a way unless he changed it. So he added a ingredient that is so daring and rude to his costumers, yet ultimately leaves us an amazing taste in our tastebuds. That ingredient, would be the intentional LACK of an answer. Which is confusing, since how can you put something in a pot when it isn't there? I'm not really good with things like this but yeah. XD
That's all I have to say, I'm not good with analysis nor comprehending so I apologize if I missed something or misunderstood. I also apologize for apologizing so often, I possess a self-depreciating nature back when I was a kid.
I think what's being left out is not necessary for us to figure out. Rather I believe why Donnelly left out whatever was so we can fill in the blanks. Symbolism acts as a filter as it distracts us from the origin of the voice presenting it (like Donnelly's with the M. Dew poem) with our own interpretations, a stream we can entertain for days. These origins I suspect Donnelly is also a little distanced from: the raw meat and potatoes of dreaming. : ) Getting to that place is the quest of poets/artists etc. only few survive (but then they die by way of tragic consequences as they tend to go in unprotected) : )
Ah, I'd like to make some edits to my comments, but don't think I can. So I'll elaborate here in case I sounded a little vague:
[...]the origin of the voice presenting it, like Donnelly's in the poem, I mean there's something behind his voice that he kinda wants to show- actually really wants to show, I suspect, yet wants to hide I think to protect himself and entertain his audience and be ironic or whatever, because that's how he gets by. His distracting us with the symbolism (which immediately leads us to our own interpretations) is sort of like a survival tactic. "I'm too vulnerable behind all this for you to see!" It's his dreaming he's hiding, the raw content of it, which is too much for most of us because we're all so distanced from it. I suspect Donnelly is in this party with us- most don't fully realize it until they're ready to die for it. Like Plath (again), w. Ariel poems, those're terrifying gems. They survive as historical figures, though.'
You may be right, there's no point in sticking our head into a water well from another village then the one we have now.
I agree with you that symbolism acts as some sort of filter that distracts away from the origin.
However, I never got such an impression that he'd show such contradicting traits, so this is quite new to me. It's interesting yet relatable for me, for some reason. To desire to show a certain side to one's self to his friends or audience, yet restrain himself out of fear or embarrassment. Maybe the word "contradiction" is a incorrect word to use for this situation. If I'm even correct at all on this matter. This makes me wonder if he only shared us his thoughts through the most vaguest ways possible just for the sole sake of getting it off his chest.
It's still difficult for me to understand, perhaps it's because I'm a pepsi or fanta person.
Hi Syed and Stacey: Great back and forth here! Nice analyses from both of you. This is exactly the kind of conversations I hope will happen on the blog.
(Honestly, I don't know if It was necessary of me to respond as I'm completely new to this kind of situation. Though it would be rude and awkward of me not to respond.)
Hi everyone, I really like your discussion it does brings a lot of questions about what the poetry really means. I think the writer is very cynical in his poem, he keeps on repeating the same words about death and the color green, he has some kind of an amusement, maybe of people who like mountain dew even though they know it's not healthy for them? or, maybe the fact that as people we do things we should not do like smoking, drinking alcohol, eating junk food and that diet mountain dew is a symbol of the wrong things we continue doing that harming us, and even can cause death such as; Diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure. the song can be a mirror he put on us as a society and the way we axploit our body. Mazal.
Hello Ms/mr. Marsha! You're right about that. We humans tend to do things that harm us, mostly out of pleasure or a desperate attempt to escape things that cause us discomfort. Which is interesting, as many animals and plants are designed in a way that everything they do, is ultimately for the sake of survival.
When I say survival, I perceive it to be living as long as possible while being able to produce kids that can adjust to it's environment. Basically, doing the same things as the parents did, so on and so forth.
Wouldn't doing things like smoking harm our bodies, making it more difficulty to live within our environment, and thus unable to survive? So it's interesting that he wants to die, or at least, is excited about the aspect of dying.
Maybe I'm just digressing. It's hard to pinpoint, so we only have our predictions to rely on.
Hey everyone, I really thought that the way that everyone interpreted this poem was very interesting. It really helps to see other peoples' perspective on the poem to truly get into what it means. I was thinking the same thing with the concept of the color green and how we associate it with objects. when you think of green many may think of life and the earth but the poem is so ironic with "the ship of death" really brought me to think about the color of mountain dew and how he was just trying to make it so appealing and yet grotesque at the same time. there is a true love here it can be the mountain dew or a metaphor for an actual lover. I think the way the other constantly plays on death and how wonderful the mountain dew is. just shows us what lengths people are willing to go for the addictions. Also, I think that if you break down love and the actions people take or the sacrifices they make for love it can also be looked at as an addiction.
Hi Sumaiya, it is crazy how we all can get a different prespective of the poem, and it migiht be totaly different look that the writer realy meant. the beauty of it is that each of us can see a different aspect of it, and take it the way we see it in oue eyes. I guess we will never know what it meant lol, but Iam not gonna like Iam curious to hear where the writer was going with his poem.
Thats exactly what I was thinking that it just drives you to think about what the author was thinking but like you said it's something that we might never know. But its about what we take away from the poem I guess. ?
It's pretty cool how we were all able to see the same things with the symbols we're given to analyze. Yet, it intrigues me even more so that we all have different thought processes that leads to such an conclusion that are closely similar.
I agree, It is pretty cool how we all are able to have different perspectives and meanings from the same poem. It's one of my favorite things about poetry and literature in general.
In regards to the Diet Mountain Dew discussion that we had the other day, I thought it was interesting to mention that there are two groups of words that the author has repetitively used to start the sentences of some of his stanzas. This would consist of “I have built my ship of death” and “A green like no other green”. It’s obvious that the author has an obsession of the color “green” and death itself, or at least a personal connection to these two concepts.
ReplyDeleteAs everyone continued on with their amusing discussion, I was gradually convinced that it may not be two separate concepts, but rather that the author sees these concepts as one and the same. Many of us would draw connections with the color “red” with the concepts anger, blood, hell, lust (ex: lipstick), or even nightmares. However, It depends on factors such as differing cultures that leads us to draw such connections. Perhaps, the author saw the world differently to how it’s usually seen in regards to colors. Perhaps the color “grey” may appear to be a symbol of “livelihood” whereas rainbows may be a symbol of despair in his perception.
In regards to the stanza that caught my attention in the poem was the third stanza. I believe that it refers to an ordinary group of fresh leaves that one would always notice yet take for granted. However, due to the author’s mentioning of the color “green”, it may have been denoting any green-colored plant within our environment. May it be mere grass or trees. Admittedly, we would all attach our gazes unto trees only because we’re just staring off into space with our minds aimlessly wandering about. Though this un-familial yet traditional pattern within many humans would be hindered by someone that does care about such greenly details. This would be the case of the photographer mentioned in the stanza, who took his time to appreciate such an usual image in its entirety via taking a picture. The author’s frequent mention of the color green may refer to the livelihood of the mentioned environment, as opposed to his other obsession with the concept of death. I admit that this serves nothing more but a contradiction to what I said earlier.
It’s difficult to discern unless we lived his life with the exact factors included. He may simply love the soda with that name. Perhaps, it was nothing more but a homework written at the last moment before his English professor punishes him.
Maybe, he wished to die in a manner that satisfies him. Drinking a liquid that’s laced with many questionable yet digestible chemicals, that can definitely cause bodily problems if drank irresponsibly. Yet, despite such possibly chemical atrocities, he was seduced by the color that it brings. He just seemed so excited to reach his destination: death. I can’t tell if he was referring to his body as the “ship of death” or that the consumed liquid itself is the ship. Was it the journey or the destination? Perhaps, he simply likes the result that it brings to him. A colorful ending. A green-colored death.
I'm sorry if this sounds all over the place. I'm also sorry for the length. The poem confuses me so much that my mind is like a compass that's spiraling out of control. The flaws of inexperience, I'm afraid. Frankly, I didn't even know there was DIET Mountain Dew, or maybe I always missed the "diet" part of the name whenever I had the chance to drink it. Ironic, I'm just like a person with grass and trees, taking things for granted.
(just testing things out, due to the massive mess I just made.)
Hi Syed,
ReplyDeleteDon't be mean to yourself! I really appreciated reading your exploration of the poem, and I'm sure Donnelly would too. Besides, it's fun to dissect our way through the cloud of mystique his work offered us. So thanks for setting an example for us by putting yourself out there.
The associations that poets use to link their words together are deeply subjective and say a lot about the role of symbolism in our lives- how it acts as a filter. I think Donnelly's intent with the Mountain Dew poem was to playfully make this point, and how we fail to see without this filter, and how this has power over us.
In a poem, symbolism appears as a constellation of these associations, and we rearrange them so that they are reflective of our own private worlds. Our interpretations of a poem are expressive of aspects of ourselves, unknown or not (generally the former). Did you notice how in class we all had different opinions on what Donnelly was trying to say? I personally believed he was owning his fears of being alone and facing a storm, channeling rage and despair...and that's so me to project catharsis like that. Others obviously felt differently about his work. We wound up debating whether it was about Mountain Dew or not. So it's like symbolism teases us as though to distract us from the raw, complete truth hiding behind it all. At the same time, it brings us closer together in our exploration of it so I don't mind symbolism much at all. : )
Some of Donnelly's lines, such as the one about the ship, reminded me of Dylan Thomas or Sylvia Plath or even Poe and I couldn't believe that we were being assigned to read an actual cool poem in school. Like someone else said in class, I find it "appalling" that it could all possibly be about Mountain Dew. I think he had profound things in there that he mixed-up with the rest of it intentionally, but even if it was self-sabotage...figuring it out doesn't matter and we'll never know what he was on when he wrote it. I think at the end of the day Donnelly's poem was heavy on audience-consideration. From his reading we watched, it wouldn't surprise me if he was (heavy judgment alert!) a pretentious little schmooze-ball like that : ) Maybe he did this because he thought it would satisfy him to die this way.
Let me know what you think, Syed, as well as the rest of you.
-Stacey
Hello, Ms. Stacy/schist. Thank you for replying and I apologize for the delay in my response. I was sick.
DeleteI get the feeling that Donnelly might respond with a "huh, I never thought of that". As there are 7 billion humans, there are also 7 billion completely unique interpretations as well as the process of how such are formed. I agree that it's fun, but I must confess that it's also quite stressful. XD
You say that symbolism acts as a filter, which is quite intriguing as I've never thought of that before. If symbolism is meant to be filter, then what is the thing that's supposed to be filtered out? What's being left out and what's meant to remain?
I agree with your beautiful description of symbolism within poems. It's hard NOT to notice all of their different opinions in regards to the topic. I was interested in understanding what factors were included for each of these individuals in our class to form their respective opinions. What led to them to say this or that, and will I be able to succeed in understanding a mere fraction of them all even when I keep my own experiences? So it fascinates me to hear their opinions. As one would see a piece of gum between two pebbles, another would see a rock in the middle of a large canyon.
That's kinda funny, in a way. You believed there was rage, fear, and despair that was involved. I believed that there was relief, excitement, reassurance, pleasure, and satisfaction to found when facing death in the eye. Though that may just correlate with my own life experiences as your opinions may possibly correlate to your own.
I so agree with the distraction part. An amazing choice of words that rings well to the heart. Perhaps, not knowing the truth at all is what draws together. It's like a large group of college dorm buddies surrounded by a large white room. They don't know how it originally looked, but are willing to work together to paint it to see if they can mimic closer to the original coloring of the room. In the middle of it all, they find enjoyment as each of them paint their interpretations. Symbolism is a beautiful construct created by humans, and there are symbols made for everything, and for everyone. Whether they're necessary or not, depends on each of us.
It would honestly drive me insane and outraged if it was something so simple. However, that is one of the things we'll be forced to accept in life. XD A tree is a tree, no matter how you look at it.
I get the feeling he didn't want anyone to figure it out so easily. I feel like he wants it to be memorable, to get stuck into the back of our heads like a parasite. If you found a treasure map that directly told you where the treasure is and what it exactly contains, then it wouldn't be so fun nor exciting. It wouldn't even give us a chance to add our own expectations, may they be optimistic or pessimistic. That is what I believe to be the treasure. Our own expectations and interpretations of his creation. It would be boring if we already knew what it was immediately after finishing the poem. To us, it would be just another reading assignment or poem that we finished, and nothing more than that. We would leave and move forward without even remembering a thing about this poem. I feel like the author knows that it was going to happen in such a way unless he changed it. So he added a ingredient that is so daring and rude to his costumers, yet ultimately leaves us an amazing taste in our tastebuds. That ingredient, would be the intentional LACK of an answer. Which is confusing, since how can you put something in a pot when it isn't there? I'm not really good with things like this but yeah. XD
That's all I have to say, I'm not good with analysis nor comprehending so I apologize if I missed something or misunderstood. I also apologize for apologizing so often, I possess a self-depreciating nature back when I was a kid.
Syed,
DeleteI think what's being left out is not necessary for us to figure out. Rather I believe why Donnelly left out whatever was so we can fill in the blanks. Symbolism acts as a filter as it distracts us from the origin of the voice presenting it (like Donnelly's with the M. Dew poem) with our own interpretations, a stream we can entertain for days. These origins I suspect Donnelly is also a little distanced from: the raw meat and potatoes of dreaming. : ) Getting to that place is the quest of poets/artists etc. only few survive (but then they die by way of tragic consequences as they tend to go in unprotected) : )
See you soon,
S.
Ah, I'd like to make some edits to my comments, but don't think I can. So I'll elaborate here in case I sounded a little vague:
Delete[...]the origin of the voice presenting it, like Donnelly's in the poem, I mean there's something behind his voice that he kinda wants to show- actually really wants to show, I suspect, yet wants to hide I think to protect himself and entertain his audience and be ironic or whatever, because that's how he gets by. His distracting us with the symbolism (which immediately leads us to our own interpretations) is sort of like a survival tactic. "I'm too vulnerable behind all this for you to see!" It's his dreaming he's hiding, the raw content of it, which is too much for most of us because we're all so distanced from it. I suspect Donnelly is in this party with us- most don't fully realize it until they're ready to die for it. Like Plath (again), w. Ariel poems, those're terrifying gems. They survive as historical figures, though.'
S.
You may be right, there's no point in sticking our head into a water well from another village then the one we have now.
DeleteI agree with you that symbolism acts as some sort of filter that distracts away from the origin.
However, I never got such an impression that he'd show such contradicting traits, so this is quite new to me. It's interesting yet relatable for me, for some reason. To desire to show a certain side to one's self to his friends or audience, yet restrain himself out of fear or embarrassment. Maybe the word "contradiction" is a incorrect word to use for this situation. If I'm even correct at all on this matter. This makes me wonder if he only shared us his thoughts through the most vaguest ways possible just for the sole sake of getting it off his chest.
It's still difficult for me to understand, perhaps it's because I'm a pepsi or fanta person.
I don't know why but my computer's acting rather idiotic today. The person who wrote the comment above is Syed, not anybody else.
Delete- Syed (I'll just include this from now on to prevent any possible mistake like this.)
Hi Syed and Stacey:
ReplyDeleteGreat back and forth here! Nice analyses from both of you. This is exactly the kind of conversations I hope will happen on the blog.
Thank you, Professor Talbird!
Delete(Honestly, I don't know if It was necessary of me to respond as I'm completely new to this kind of situation. Though it would be rude and awkward of me not to respond.)
Hi everyone, I really like your discussion it does brings a lot of questions about what the poetry really means. I think the writer is very cynical in his poem, he keeps on repeating the same words about death and the color green, he has some kind of an amusement, maybe of people who like mountain dew even though they know it's not healthy for them? or, maybe the fact that as people we do things we should not do like smoking, drinking alcohol, eating junk food and that diet mountain dew is a symbol of the wrong things we continue doing that harming us, and even can cause death such as; Diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure. the song can be a mirror he put on us as a society and the way we axploit our body.
ReplyDeleteMazal.
Hello Ms/mr. Marsha! You're right about that. We humans tend to do things that harm us, mostly out of pleasure or a desperate attempt to escape things that cause us discomfort. Which is interesting, as many animals and plants are designed in a way that everything they do, is ultimately for the sake of survival.
DeleteWhen I say survival, I perceive it to be living as long as possible while being able to produce kids that can adjust to it's environment. Basically, doing the same things as the parents did, so on and so forth.
Wouldn't doing things like smoking harm our bodies, making it more difficulty to live within our environment, and thus unable to survive? So it's interesting that he wants to die, or at least, is excited about the aspect of dying.
Maybe I'm just digressing. It's hard to pinpoint, so we only have our predictions to rely on.
- Syed
Hey everyone, I really thought that the way that everyone interpreted this poem was very interesting. It really helps to see other peoples' perspective on the poem to truly get into what it means. I was thinking the same thing with the concept of the color green and how we associate it with objects. when you think of green many may think of life and the earth but the poem is so ironic with "the ship of death" really brought me to think about the color of mountain dew and how he was just trying to make it so appealing and yet grotesque at the same time. there is a true love here it can be the mountain dew or a metaphor for an actual lover. I think the way the other constantly plays on death and how wonderful the mountain dew is. just shows us what lengths people are willing to go for the addictions. Also, I think that if you break down love and the actions people take or the sacrifices they make for love it can also be looked at as an addiction.
ReplyDeleteHi Sumaiya, it is crazy how we all can get a different prespective of the poem, and it migiht be totaly different look that the writer realy meant. the beauty of it is that each of us can see a different aspect of it, and take it the way we see it in oue eyes. I guess we will never know what it meant lol, but Iam not gonna like Iam curious to hear where the writer was going with his poem.
DeleteThats exactly what I was thinking that it just drives you to think about what the author was thinking but like you said it's something that we might never know. But its about what we take away from the poem I guess. ?
DeleteIt's pretty cool how we were all able to see the same things with the symbols we're given to analyze. Yet, it intrigues me even more so that we all have different thought processes that leads to such an conclusion that are closely similar.
Delete- Syed
I agree, It is pretty cool how we all are able to have different perspectives and meanings from the same poem. It's one of my favorite things about poetry and literature in general.
ReplyDeleteI also concur. Though honestly, I always find myself slightly taking it for granted before our first class.
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